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New Dev Tool: WP-CLI
One tool I’ve been using for several months is WP-CLI. This tool is an absolute must if you are doing any server work. WP-CLI from their website, is a command-line tool for managing WordPress installations. It gives you the abilities like update plugins, themes, even WordPress. You can even do database tasks. The database tasks…
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How to Easily Change WordPress Emails
I have come across this quite a lot lately. WordPress send emails for things like new users, forgot passwords, change passwords, etc. It uses a default address of [email protected]. While it gives you an idea of where it comes from, sometimes you want to just have it be something specific. Personally for me, I like…
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DIY Server Admin Tip – Installing Security Fixes
If you run your own server, you probably already know this command: sudo apt-get update What you might not realize is that it actually doesn’t upgrade anything you installed. It only updates the list of packages and their versions. It does not install or upgrade anything. Therefore it’s helpful if you run the following command…
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Getting Started with SASS
Preprocessors seem to be all the talk for front-end web developers and it’s no different with me. In the last two years I’ve played with both LESS and SASS and the past year, have worked almost exclusively with SASS. This post is going to be all about getting started with SASS. You can read a…
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Creating a Local DNS Server for TLD Locally
Lately I’ve been finding the joys in the little things in my work life. I’ve been fortunate enough to be spending the last couple of days working on some internal tools that we’ve been using internally for the last year or so, and I’ve had the opportunity to grow. During this time however, I’ve found…
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How to Increase your Local Development Time with Bash Scripting
Over the years, I’ve written about my development environment. I’ve gone from using the internal LAMP stack that comes with Mac OS X to using MAMP, and now back again. Some of my recent work has forced me back out of MAMP and into the internal LAMP stack of Mac OS X. Of course there’s…
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How to change your WordPress Permalink Structure
This is a great article that talks about changing the permalink structure for your WordPress site. It’s definitely worth checking this out.
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How to Cron Job Your Web Apps?or If This Then That Your Way to Automation
I have just come across a cool app called iftt.com or If this then that. I have to say it’s a pretty sweet app! It hooks up to a lot of the great web apps out their today to create automated tasks. It’s so cool I’m just going to show you what it can do!
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Donations via PayPal?
So I found this a little useful and I’ll be adding it to my site very soon. I got to thinking about the time I put in to blog posts, screencasts, etc. and thought wouldn’t it be nice to have people that enjoy what I bring give me a little something in return? Sure everyone…
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Easy Way to Change jQuery to Google API
So I get this question asked a lot through the Headway forums, or just people in general wanting to know how they can switch to loading jQuery from Google’s CDN of JS libraries. So I figured I’d post here.