There are a great many tools that duplicate sites and synchronise databases between sites. Some favourites are Duplicator, WP Migrate and WP Migrate Pro, as well as good old phpMyAdmin. However, sometimes all that is needed is to import the database and then do a search and replace. This is easier said than done however …Continue reading
Author: Kirsten Cassidy
CSS Fancy Quotes
There are all sorts of HTML elements that concern quotes and quoting things. I’ll let you sort out the appropriate one here. When it come to styling them you have several choices as well. You can put quotes around the quoted string or you can style the blockquote element. The main difference is whether you …Continue reading
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Facts & Coupons
So What are Black Friday and Cyber Monday Anyway? Black Friday is the Friday following the American (USA not Canada) Thanksgiving holiday which is always on the third Thursday in November. The Friday is really a bridge holiday and in the US retail market marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. In order to …Continue reading
WP-CLI Cheatsheet for site setup
For those who are comfortable with WP-CLI but haven’t yet memorised all the commands here are some of the more common ones I use when developing client sites. The object here is to save time and to avoid do repetitive (and unexciting) tasks in wp-admin. If you aren’t comfortable with WP-CLI and would like to …Continue reading
Unix Command Cheatsheet
This is a conglomeration of several online cheatsheets, the origins of which are noted in the resources section below. It also includes my own notes, any of this is open for discussion. Please feel free to correct any wrong information or to include any which are vital but may have been overlooked.
Responsive Images to be merged into WordPress 4.4
Edit: WordPress 4.4 is here! Update your WordPress installation to experience Responsive Images on your site. What are Responsive Images? If you’ve somehow missed all the excitement about browsers supporting responsive images you can read about it here. In short it is an HTML5 specification that allows the browser to determine which sized image to …Continue reading
CSS Properties: object-fit and object-postion
CSS has many obscure properties that can can really make a difference with browsers that support them. Two of these are object-fit and object-position. The benefits of these two properties is that the allow us to determine the portion of an image that will be seen at various widths, so that by using media-queries different …Continue reading
Price Appropriate WordPress Hosting Solutions
Sites built using WordPress now account for over twenty percent of all sites on the Internet and WordPress hosting has become a profitable business for the many involved. Thanks to my experiences working with and fixing all sorts of sites on all sorts of hosting platforms I unfortunately have a very long list of hosts …Continue reading
Policy Regarding Affiliate Links
Full disclosure: This site contains affiliate links. If you use them I thank you for supporting my efforts. I stand by these and any recommendations but promise to update any articles containing these links if my option should change. I have also supported any recommended products before determining whether they have affiliate links rather than …Continue reading
Kaizen, Maintenance, and the Freelance Web Developer
I first heard about Kaizen in a radio podcast called This American Life. Unlike most of my favourite podcasts, this had nothing to do with Web development, technology, or growing one’s own business. This episode was about a product, specifically the NUMMI, a car produced from a General Motors and Toyota joint venture that could …Continue reading