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Making your own WPEngine-Like High Performance WordPress Server

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’

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