by Richard W | Sep 5, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Wordpress
In WordPress, hooks are the building blocks for your themes and plugins and are vital for their functionality. Basically, their purpose is to allow developers to make their own custom code (and custom functionalities) to themes or plugins without changing any of the...
by Richard W | Aug 29, 2016 | Wordpress
If you’re a WordPress developer then you probably know how much quicker and easier it is to develop a theme or create a new WP site on your local machine rather than doing so on a remote server. The only slight problem with building a theme locally is that you...
by Richard W | Jul 7, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Web, Wordpress
Nginx is a great web server. I am using it on other blogs I owned online. It’s probably the second most popular web servers in used today.. and growing rapidly. Some will argue that Nginx is more resource-friendly than Apache2 and can be used as a reverse-proxy...
by Richard W | Apr 19, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Security, Wordpress
I recently had to install Let’s Encrypt certificates on one of my websites hosted on a Ubuntu server running Apache2 web server. The process was painless and easy.. and this brief tutorial is going to show you what steps I took and what to look out for when...
by Richard W | Mar 28, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
This brief tutorial shows you how to easily and quickly change WordPress admin password and email address from its database. The reason I’m writing this is I ran into a minor issue where I lost control of my admin account.. not due to hackers or someone who...
by Richard W | Mar 7, 2016 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Wordpress
Hosting your WordPress blogs on your own server is better than on a shared server. New webmasters will opt for shared environments as they’re easy to setup and manage. The one big hurdle of running your own server is you become the server, network and security...
