Good bye MediaTemple! I’d like to say its been fun but unfortunately its been a disaster and I’m very happy to say WP Engine has been great so far (full review of them below). In May 201 ...
An update to Google’s Webmaster Tools has serious implications for outdated websites and non-mobile friendly websites. Ethan Marcotte first brought ‘Responsive Design’ to the mainstream in 2011 with h ...
For the first time in a very long time, a website that I created was recently hacked and no, I’m not embarrassed or ashamed. Over the past few years I’ve come to terms with the fact that I ...
Quite regularly I need to retrieve some FTP settings and the one place I know I have them handy is in Dreamweaver (or in my repository of Dreamweaver STE files). Unfortunately Dreamweaver vaguely encr ...
A few days ago I was setting up a new WordPress site that wasn’t going in to production for a few days and saw the option to update to WordPress 4.0 – the perfect opportunity to upgrade wi ...
As any developers that have used WordPress for a website rebuild know, switching the domain name for the WordPress website and then updating the domains DNS to point to the new site is a clunky proces ...
I recently used the excellent Mukam Responsive Theme for a website I was developing (it’s also available as a WordPress theme here) and was frustrated by the lack of a comprehensive list of the ...
After recently upgrading a Windows 2008 R2 web server from Parallels 11.5 to Parallels 12, I ran in to a series of fairly serious issues that I thought I would document here in the hopes that it might ...
So anyone that follows my blog may have noticed that my site was painfully slow or completely inaccessible for the past 36 hours – the truth is I have no explanation for the cause of the problem ...
Since the inclusion of audio and video files natively in WordPress (since version 3.6 I believe), the necessity to include large files in the media library has jumped up but the maximum upload size is ...
