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At this point in my life, I feel like I’ve gained a little bit of wisdom. I used to get frustrated because I felt there were so many things that I wished I had done differently or had paid attention… Continue Reading →
Over the past few years, I’ve spent a significant amount of time writing about a lot of things on how to achieve certain things in WordPress. And I don’t regret it (after all, it’s my career and it’s even the… Continue Reading →
*be sure to click display images, I have a good gif for you today* Before I get into the SEO course that doesn’t hurt my head, I have something that’s a little gross to share with you. Now that I’m… Continue Reading →
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of writing the forward to Cal Evans book Using the WordPress REST API. Shortly thereafter, Cal asked if I’d join him on his podcast, Voices of the elePHPant, to talk a bit… Continue Reading →
When speaking of web analytics and privacy, its not something I typically think of going hand-in-hand. I mean, conventional wisdom may argue that we want to know as much as possible about those visiting our sites so we can ensure… Continue Reading →
If you’ve been hosting a podcast for a while (for the sake of this post, let’s say longer than a year), you’ve probably received unsolicited requests from people who want to be a guest on your podcast (and if you… Continue Reading →
One of the things I’ve been considering for a while now (read: most of this year) is archiving my GitHub repositories and retiring what WordPress plugins I currently have available. Last month, I spent time thinking about why I’d want… Continue Reading →
Earlier this year, I talked about the move from Pressware to WebDevStudios but I didn’t go into much detail. However, last week, I had the ability to do a deep dive into what it’s like to work to work with… Continue Reading →
Queue Earth, Wind, & Fire… “Do you remember… the 21st night of September?” And yes, now that song is on loop in my head 😉 (there are certainly worse songs that could be on loop though, right?). Fall feels a… Continue Reading →
I’m one of those types who uses the and as my primary DNS servers. But one problem that comes with using these as my main DNS servers (and maybe others, I don’t know as I’ve not tried them) is that… Continue Reading →
When I started the podcast at the beginning of the year, I’d planned to do it for at least a year. But some seriously good things have come up since January – namely that our family is growing 🙂 –… Continue Reading →
It’s been roughly one year since WP Engine acquired StudioPress, the makers of the Genesis Framework. There’s been a lot of forward progress, but it may have left some people feeling unsure about how to work with Genesis or best… Continue Reading →
In the previous two posts, I’ve talked about the basics of caching and how caching works in WordPress, at least to a degree. But remember that this series was motivated by an email from someone who thought that I could… Continue Reading →
Here’s a super short snippet, that someone asked a couple of days ago: how to redirect a visitor to a…
As an entrepreneur, I’ve always liked Monday’s. I rarely schedule calls on Monday which gives me the headspace to fully invest my energy into the week ahead. Sometimes I’ve gotten ahead of the week the day before and other times… Continue Reading →
In the previous post, I shared a basic primer for how database-backed applications – specifically WordPress – work without caching. And before we talk about how basic caching works in WordPress, namely with the Transients API, it’s important to discuss… Continue Reading →
