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Testing Out Nginx, WordPress & Varnish

  • 16 Feb, 2014

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.

  • 10 Feb, 2014

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 […]

Disabling WordPress’ Heartbeat & Cron To Save CPU

  • 6 Feb, 2014
WordPress Sparkles

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 to spike to 100% CPU and get stuck there until I force restart it. So I’ve been digging. One of the ideas I came across was disabling WordPress’ heartbeat. It […]

WordPress Feature – Snow – Just Enable It

  • 13 Dec, 2013

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 see a checkbox for snow. Check the box, save changes and check out your site. Snow will now be falling. Oddly enough, it only goes until January 4th and I’ve […]

And this is why you have WordPress security plugins. Brute Force Attacks

  • 13 Nov, 2013

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 know when someone is going to try to force their way into your site. Turns out that ‘when’ was last night for me. I got two emails from my security […]

Upgrade WordPress Admin & Make It Mobile Friendly

  • 18 Oct, 2013

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 is developed by many of the core WordPress developers and should appear in WordPress 3.8. It’s technically in beta, but looks pretty darn amazing. And yes, I’m aware that the […]

Flashback. WordPress Circa 2005.

  • 18 Oct, 2013

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 back and see how amazing WordPress was back then. Keep in mind their site was run off the latest and greatest version of WordPress at that time.

WordPress Multisite 101 – WordUp Presentation

  • 12 Oct, 2013

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, it’ll be a good reminder of what we talked about. If you weren’t, it’ll give you some info but it may be out of context as my speaking notes aren’t […]

Am I the only one that doesn’t like auto updates?

  • 10 Oct, 2013

Are auto updates really a good thing? More and more software is opting into auto updating so that the user doesn’t have to worry about it. In some cases I think this is good, in others I’m worried about negative side effects. iOS 7 Auto Updates In iOS 7 Apple introduced auto updates for apps. […]