When working with PHPStorm and VVV (VaryingVagrantVagrants) in my development environment the integration and activation of Xdebug is relatively seamless. Xdebug 3 is now available it requires slightly different settings in the PHP ini files to work in PHPStorm. Another positive benefit of using Xdebug 3 is it’s now quicker Read more…
I presented at the Chicago Northside meetup talking about version control with WordPress. This popular meetup is always well attended and this was no exception.
In the presentation I aimed to demysitify version control and
I found Chrome was warning me of form markup improvements I could make to input elements on my Contact Form 7 forms. Chrome displays messages in its developer console like this: I took the time to see what I could do to get rid of these warnings and after checking Read more…
I use Git when working on my WordPress projects.
On occasion, when I’m working on the latest branch and testing out some changes, styling, code etc, I’m *really* excited that I’ve squashed that bug / made that visual improvement.
However, it’s only then that I realize I didn’t create a new branch for my current round of changes.
So, it’s copy/paste, multiple CTRL-Z’s and then paste in. But wait! The changes are in multiple files. Darn.
Have no fear. Git can help.
I am happy to share my latest WordPress plugin. Inspired by a recent site I was working on, this plugin helps identify the featured image that is associated with each Post or Page. Find out more about the plugin and try it out for yourself. Featured Image Admin Thumb – Read more…
Backups. Everybody talks about them and says they are doing them, or going to do them or definitely going to do them. However, sometimes the truth is no backup is in place. I wanted to raise awareness and encourage backups for WordPress site owners by describing one of the backup options in the WordPress field.
Talking at the Chicago Northside WordPress meetup on Updates, Backups and maintenance I described how you could configure a WordPress backup solution, PressBackup, to work with Amazon S3. By using Amazon S3 you get the benefit of potentially unlimited backup file storage for free (12 months initially) or for relatively low cost. You create an account with PressBackup and then you can use your Amazon account by adding the S3 service (a few sign up steps), retrieve the Amazon security and authentication keys and put them into PressBackup and then the backups can begin.
By default the WordPress categories widget offers quick and easy links to your content categories. With a little bit of CSS you can easily make some stylish additions to the output. So, here’s the before shot: But in this case I want to add little style, some graphics or perhaps Read more…
While working on a client project I thought it would be best to use real content from the clients site to check, amongst other things, if pagination was working on the home page. After importing the clients data into my development site I refreshed the the home page and looked Read more…
When building a site for clients it’s nice to clean out the Admin Dashboard screen of some of the unnecessary (and possibly dangerous) sections and checkboxes to avoid distractions when creating or editing their content. WordPress is flexible enough to allow sections, or meta boxes, to be easily removed through Read more…
While working on a real estate project I encountered very slow response from WordPress on certain queries. These queries are multiple tag queries in the form: http://www.site.com/tag/TAG_ONE+TAG_TWO My application is using WordPress tags to annotate the content and I am providing links to those multiple tag queries throughout the site. Read more…
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