WordPress Permission Problems on IIS
While I would never recommend running WordPress on a Windows box unless you have to (having done this for several years and the performance was just never on par with a Linux equivalent), if you must ...
Category Archives: Web & Programming
Idiots Guide: Migrating WordPress to GoDaddy Managed Hosting
There are lots of guides out there for migrating WordPress websites but there are a few peculiarities about GoDaddy Hosting and I found many of the guides didn’t provide enough detail. Considera ...
GoDaddy’s WordPress Migration Tool: Simple and Ineffective
NOV 2016 UPDATE: Ok so its worse than I thought, I recently had to migrate another website on a server I control (from the operating system upwards) and still couldn’t get the GoDaddy Migration ...
Tablet & Smartphone Resolutions and Screen Sizes
As I’ve never been able to find a frequently updated list of smartphone and tablet screen resolutions, I decided to shoulder the burden myself. I hope this list below is useful to people. I wil ...
WP Engine Vs GoDaddy (AKA Bye Bye WP Engine)
So my after a year at WP Engine, my blog has returned to GoDaddy: better the devil you know as they say. Jump to the WP Engine Vs GoDaddy performance tests. Why Did I Leave WP Engine? So why did I le ...
Workaround for the Shopify 100 Variant Limit
Shopify is a fantastic ‘Managed Ecommerce’ platform that provides a powerful, safe and easy to use online store for business of all sizes. Unfortunately as its a hosted platform, the core ...
Speednames Domain Registrar – they charge for Everything
We recently completed a website project for a customer and needed to update the domain’s names servers to use CloudFlare – a fairly standard operation. My lead web developer came back to s ...
Network Solutions: Domain Name Transfer Delay Tactics
Once upon a time, Network Solutions were the de-facto company for .com domain name registrations and related services. These days IT engineers and web developers alike shudder at the thought of having ...
WordPress PHP Error: Call to a member function getConfigs() on a non-object (AddThis Plugin)
UPDATE: Wow – the AddThis team have been in touch via multiple channels to confirm they are working on a fix. You know the best thing? From what I’ve seen they’ve thanked everyone ...
Make Clickable URL Hyperlinks in PDFs Created with Illustrator
As you may or may not know, Illustrator will make any URLs in documents its creates ‘clickable’ – that is to say anything identified as a website address or an email address will lau ...