Zach Adams 
Zach Adams Apt-get can’t connect to ‘security.ubuntu.com’
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
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Adding XDebug to Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)
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
When it works but I haven’t refactored it yet
Looking Through My Old Code
Securing a WordPress site when you don’t have access to the Server
We've all been in a situation where the website we're working on is stuck on some weird server somewhere and you need to make sure it's secure. Here's a list of things I make sure to do to ensure that my sites on other servers don't get hacked. Read More
Adding Sticky Results to Relevanssi
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
How to Fix Navigation Menu not showing up on Category page
I ran into a very interesting problem working yesterday, with a very strange answer. Read More
Introducing the Cutlass WordPress Starter Theme
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
The Simpsons paid homage to Linux this week
