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WordPress Resources
I was asked by a co-worker last week for a list of resources of places I go to look for WordPress information. I figured this would make a great blog post, so I’ve started to collect them here. This post is going to be updated over time as I come across more resources, etc.
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Front-end Developers Tool: CSS Lint
For any inspiring front-end developers reading my blog, I want to give you a free tool to use. It’s called CSS Lint. CSS Lint points out problems with your CSS code.
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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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A New Design
Lately I’ve been having this urge to redesign this site and spend some time refocusing it a bit. The past few months have been an incredible time in my life as I married my wife — the woman of my dreams. That time I spent a lot of time — debating, thinking, praying — trying…
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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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Invites for the big day
I don’t blog too much personal things here, which I’ll probably start doing more here and less about WordPress in the future, but wanted to take a minute and post up our invites for the wedding.
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Top 3 Ways to Be a Better Software Developer
A couple of days ago, I was asked by a friend if I’d compile a list of ways you could become a better software developer. This is my growing list of tips and tricks I’ve found useful through the years. If you aren’t sure what a code monkey, code ninja, or any of those other…
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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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Hosting Update: Why I’ll stay with Digital Ocean
A few months ago, I posted how I switched to Digital Ocean, as my hosting service provider. I haven’t really came back to it, so today I thought I’d just give a quick update. Site Became Unresponsive It’s been with Digital Ocean since Jan. 16th and can say I’ve had a few issues with them.…