Very excited to be a speaker at WordCamp Minneapolis this year and they gave all of us skateboards! Just need me some wheels.
Category: WordPress
Web design is not as easy you think. #wcmpls
Design is a lot more than you think. It’s complex and each step is important. Plus your users are on multiple devices and have many different ways of interacting.
WordCamp Minneapolis #wcmpls
Every time you hack WordPress core, God kills a kitten.
Never touch WordPress core. If you’re not building WordPress, then stick to your /wp-content/ directory. That’ll make everyone’s life easier and save some kittens. Please think of the kittens!
Make the categories box taller in the WordPress admin.
If you’ve been running WordPress for a long time, or if you have a complex site, you probably have lots of categories. However, lots of categories causes a usability annoyance when the categories box in the admin screen stays pretty small. The solution? Make it bigger! The following code can be added to the functions […]
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. I’m looking for quick and easy and mainly for WordPress development. Nothing complicated. So far, Mamp is winning both the Twitter vote and other channels. What do you use for […]
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 found 8.338 MB of unused stuff. It’s easy to do too. I use the Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions plugin. Most of my cleanup came from removing post revisions. By […]
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 lately and most will check a site every 15-30 minutes unless you pay. 30 minutes before an alert is way to long. If you run WordPress, you can get your […]
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 this site, it’s a different one. I’ve tried a lot of things to make the site better and it seems better, but will sill randomly run out of […]
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 with me and helped me troubleshoot some things. Turns out that the real issue is the server settings. Now, I’m not going to tell you what to do to optimize […]
