Posts by Matt

If you’re running a site that sends a lot of emails, like an ecommerce site or a membership site, you already know that it’s critical to have a reliable email… Read more

If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you might have seen Brad’s post on setting up Let’s Encrypt on a server to get a free SSL certificate. While… Read more

If you keep up with the many different text editors and developer tools available, you may have heard of a newer IDE called Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a… Read more

This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Self-Hosted WordPress Alternatives” If you haven’t heard of it, October is a PHP-based content management system that strives to be simple… Read more

This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Self-Hosted WordPress Alternatives” When I started the Self-Hosted WordPress Alternatives series in July with a review of Craft CMS, there were… Read more

This is article 1 of 3 in the series “Self-Hosted WordPress Alternatives” I’ve been developing with WordPress for quite some time now (almost 7 years), which is practically an eternity… Read more

Last year I wrote a blog post comparing the performance of using admin-ajax.php and the WordPress REST API, and found that the REST API was about 16% faster than using… Read more

If you’ve ever spent any amount of time messing with PHP configuration files to get a file to upload, you know that uploading large files can be a real pain.… Read more

This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Automating Local WordPress Site Setup with Scripts” In my last post in the Automating Local WordPress Setup series, I created a… Read more

My last article was part of a short series on automating local WordPress site setup. In that series, we created a WP-CLI package that helps with installing and uninstalling WordPress… Read more