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Using Symlinks With Local by Flywheel For Plugin Development

January 31, 2020

Local by Flywheel Plugin Development

When developing Plugins with Local by Flywheel it’s a good idea to keep the plugin code separate from your WordPress installs. Using symlinks with Local by Flywheel helps keep the plugin code isolated so it’s easier to manage.

Filed Under: WordPress

Learn SCSS From The Source

January 24, 2020

When I’m trying to style something using a Mobile First approach, I tend to under-think my SCSS. I don’t know if I just get lazy sometimes or I just get tired of what I’m working on; It doesn’t always leave me with the best styles. The code may get the job done, but it’s convoluted […]

Filed Under: TIL (Today I Learned)

How To Use Local By Flywheel For Local WordPress Development

January 17, 2020

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Local By Flywheel is a Graphical User Interface used for spinning up local WordPress development environments. I use it every single day for my WordPress development projects and I think it would be useful for you.

Filed Under: WordPress

How To Write Your First WordPress Plugin

February 5, 2019

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After you have been using WordPress for some time, I bet you have some slight modifications you want to make. Maybe changing the title of a specific archive from “Category: Favorites” to “My Favorite Posts”? I’m going to walk you through the basics of how to write your first plugin so you can modify your […]

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: Beginner, Web Development, wordpress

How To Back Up Forge WordPress Sites to Amazon S3

November 5, 2018

How To Back Up Forge WordPress Sites to Amazon S3

I’ve had my personal WordPress site and all of my clients’ sites hosted with Laravel Forge for a little over a year now. If you haven’t heard of Forge yet, you definitely need to check it out. Yes, it is mainly for PHP applications, but it will also host WordPress sites like a champ. Forge […]

Filed Under: WordPress

How To Develop A Backup Plan For WordPress

July 17, 2018

How To Develop A Backup Plan for WordPress

Backups are an essential part of any website. What would happen if you woke up one morning and someone hacked your site? Or worse, your web host had dissolved and no longer existed? I’ve heard many stories of people that didn’t think a backup plan was important until it was too late.

Filed Under: WordPress

How to Get Yoast’s Primary Category

May 14, 2018

Edit: Yoast now has an internal function, yoast_get_primary_term_id(), that provides the primary term for a specific post. Displaying WordPress categories in a theme can be a challenge because a post could belong to several different categories and if the theme has to display 30 categories for each post in a list, it could get messy. […]

Filed Under: WordPress

Efficiently Deleting WordPress Posts Using SQL

April 17, 2017

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a WordPress plugin for importing a CSV into a few custom post types and taxonomies. I realized that sometimes going “The WordPress Way” isn’t actually the best way to do things. Occasionally, the quickest way to get stuff done is to dive into some SQL.

Filed Under: WordPress

Why Every Business Should Have A Blog

June 12, 2015

Why Every Business Should Have A Blog

How many different blogs do you read in a day ( if you’re anything like me, you read a ton of blog posts before you even roll out of bed). Often they are just interesting posts that friends post on Facebook and Twitter but nonetheless, I read tons of blog posts and you probably do […]

Filed Under: Business

How to Add Google Analytics to WordPress

June 11, 2015

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Google Analytics is one of the best ways that I have found to really track who is visiting your website. It gives you a clear view how users are getting to your site, how they interact with it, and how long they stay on it. This is one of the most important tools you need […]

Filed Under: Tech, WordPress Tagged With: analytics, custom theme, development, google, theme, web, wordpress

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