Zach Adams Web Developer and Programmer

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Making your own WPEngine-Like High Performance WordPress Server

January 16, 2015

Recently WPEngine released a new Vagrant machine called Mercury designed specifically for testing development WordPress sites with WPEngine's specialized High Performance servers. WPEngine has been well known for a long time to provide specialized WordPress Servers which can handle an insane amount of traffic on even the most complex WP sites. I'll show you how to make your own high performance WPEngine-Like Server for less then half the cost. Read More

Apt-get can’t connect to ‘security.ubuntu.com’

January 15, 2015

Ran into this issue today where on a newly made Linode Ubunu 14.04 LTS server I ran apt-get update The command started alright however eventually it would reach a point where it got stuck at Connecting to security.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1562::16) And wouldn’t continue no matter what. Turns out this is an… Read More

Adding XDebug to Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

January 12, 2015

Using VVV for WordPress development is awesome, however sometimes the errors returned are confusing and difficult to debug. Thankfully there’s a PHP extension which makes tracing the errors returned by PHP and WordPress much, much easier and that’s XDebug. Installing XDebug on your VVV machine is easy:… Read More

Adding Sticky Results to Relevanssi

December 10, 2014

I recently ran into this problem with the excellent plugin Relevanssi. I setup a custom search area which searched through a custom post type and returned good results, however we needed to implement a feature for the client to be able to “sticky” some posts… Read More

Introducing the Cutlass WordPress Starter Theme

October 22, 2014

I’ve finally finished basic work on a new WordPress starter theme which integrates Laravel’s Blade Templating Engine. I’ve been using WordPress for quite some time now and it’s still my number one resource for building a website. Recently I’ve branched off into learning Laravel due to it’s increasing popularity. One… Read More