What do you use for developing locally on a Mac? MAMP, VirtualHostX, AMPPS?
What do you use for developing locally on a Mac? Mamp, VirtualHostX, AMPPS? Something else? I asked around and everyone does it a bit differently....
Category: WordPress
How to reduce the size of your WordPress database.
What’s in your WordPress database that you don’t need? Have you ever ran through it and cleaned it up? Probably not. I recently did and it...
JetPack monitors your WordPress site in real time to ensure it’s online.
Want to know if your site goes down? I do. That way I can get it back online ASAP. I’ve been researching site monitoring services...
Testing Out Nginx, WordPress & Varnish
If you’ve been reading my blog, or following me on Twitter, than you know I’m now managing my own server and I’m having some issues....
It’s not WordPress’ Heartbeat and cron killing your server.
A few days ago I wrote about how WordPress’ Heartbeat and cron jobs were killing my server. Turns out I was wrong. John Havlik connected...
Disabling WordPress’ Heartbeat & Cron To Save CPU
Update: It’s not heartbeat and cron, it’s your server. My journey down running my own server has hit a snag. It seems my machine likes...
WordPress Feature – Snow – Just Enable It
One of the lesser known WordPress features is snow. Yep, snow. If you head over to your settings page and scroll to the bottom, you’ll...
And this is why you have WordPress security plugins. Brute Force Attacks
On my site I use Login Security Solution to help protect my site from hackers and other jerks. I don’t often have issues, but you never...
Upgrade WordPress Admin & Make It Mobile Friendly
If you want to upgrade your WordPress admin to look a lot cleaner and make it mobile friendly, download the MP6 plugin. The MP6 plugin...
Flashback. WordPress Circa 2005.
Remember 2005? Sin City was big at the box office, Hollaback Girl was on the radio, and WordPress was at version 1.5. Lets take a look...
WordPress Multisite 101 – WordUp Presentation
Why have one blog when you can have 50!? Here is the presentation I gave at WordUp 2013 about WordPress Multisite. If you were there,...
Speaking at WordUp Today
WordUp Minneapolis. I’m speaking later today.