Posted on , WordPress
The other day I realized that I had a lot of posts sitting in draft mode, but I wanted to have a look and see what the Blog loop looked like. Obviously viewing the draft post isn’t a big deal. I began to wonder if it was possible to display draft posts in the blog…
Posted on , Development
Flexible SSL is more than a fancy word. It’s an alternative to the more complicated and sometimes expensive method of adding a secure HTTPS connection to your site. Having a secure website isn’t just good for authentication, data integrity, or encryption. It is also something that Google will factor in when ranking your site. It…
Posted on , General
Like it or not, MAMP is an excellent tool for local development. If you work on multiple sites or projects at the same time across different frameworks and or CMS’s then MAMP will make your life simple. This MAMP development setup is what I have used for years while working on many freelance projects, personal…
Posted on , WordPress
Previously I wrote about Effective caching with WordPress and how I ended up improving the site speed by nearly 400%. I wanted to talk more about how you should never blindly trust that a caching solution will help make your site faster. The basic concept of caching is to save the server time by keeping…
Posted on , Content
The Facebook messenger chat plugin for websites is a great way of communicating with your audience and providing customer service. This will also tie into your Facebook page insights. Install the Facebook SDK Install the Facebook Javascript SDK and include the code just after the opening <body> tag. Find your App ID by visiting the…
Posted on , Development
Setup If you haven’t configured MAMP to use Xdebug yet then you can do so by reading this quick article. In addition, add the following just under zend_extension. It should be noted that Xdebug should not be on your production server and enabling the remote_connect_back flag is also not recommended for publicly accessible staging servers…
Posted on , Development
This is more of a simple note to self. But after setting up a fresh computer, all of those fuzzy little bits about getting MAMMP to work perfectly slip my mind. The one thing that can be a little confusing with MAMP is the multiple config locations. For example, I am running PHP 7.1.8 and…
Posted on , Development
Making your own API is probably faster and easier than you thought. By using Laravel with WordPress I will guide you through how I was able to make an API in a few hours that has served 40+ websites and dished out more than 2 million events a month. I will go over how to…
Posted on , Development
Effective caching with WordPress is not always a straightforward as it should be. WordPress has had the same architecture for many years, but it’s a large undertaking to revamp it. It means losing compatibility with hundreds of thousands of plugins and themes. Because of this WordPress runs a bit slower and needs some finer attention…
Posted on , WordPress
I have a long and tumultuous relationship with WordPress. All the way back to version 0.7. Then, updates were not nearly as reliable. But WordPress has grown a lot since then. Well, at least everything except the content editor. Sure, we have a better media manager, Post Meta, Post Formats, Revisions, and all kinds of…
Posted on , Development
Nothing new about Laravel 5.5 using Whoops, But one thing that I wanted to touch on was how to Configure Whoops in Laravel 5.5 to open files with PHP Storm, Or any other supported editor.My previous example worked until I did a Composer update, I got an error. My first idea was to dig out…
Posted on , Trouble Shooting
This is more of a note to myself, But a while back when Laravel announced that it would have minimum support for PHP 7.0 I thought nothing of it. My server was running Ubuntu 16.04 so I had PHP 7.0 Fast forward and Laravel 5.5 is out and ready for the masses. A few updates…
Posted on , Development
When you build your own Web Server you are bound to run into little issues. In my case, they always seem to be WordPress related… Previously I had an issue connecting JetPack to WordPress.com, you can read about that here. Recently I attached a Featured Image on a blog post and went to rotate the…
Posted on , Frontend
I have used the CSS Frameowker Bootstrap now since version 2. Bootstrap 4, as I’m sure you know, is nearing maturity and it was time to rebuild my theme using Bootstrap 4. I wanted to maintain a justified and centred navigation menu. This was easier to do than I had thought. I build my menus…
Posted on , Frontend
Seems like everything is harder than it needs to be. Using Bootstrap 4 requires Popper.js for things like Tool Tips and Dropdown menus to work. Bootstraps own site is less than helpful when it comes to building your own code, to be fair they are still in Beta. But Popper’s own site is maybe less…
Adam Patterson
