I have been working on implementing the API for IP2Location.io into a brute force login plugin, and have made huge progress. It currently can identify incoming requests, get the country, and has both online API based and 'offline' flat file based IP blocking. Working on database storage and blocking bots and spammers next.
Claude is an AI specifically built for code generation, and while it gets things wrong sometimes it definitely helps speed things along. For instance, today I implemented AWS bucket size calculation for all of our backups, and realized we had some that were hugely oversized and costing hundreds of dollars a month. Claude helped with [...]
Haven't posted in quite awhile, but I've been working on a few projects, and have uploaded them to github. Floating buttons, used on Cannabis and Mental Health, is a dynamic re-code of an existing plugin, so it can be used in multiple ways and have more than one popup shown. It also lets you have [...]
Have been working a lot with the WP-Rest API lately, and getting it to display certain content on the public side. I needed a way to show the taxonomy terms so we can dynamically populate a front-end filtering interface on another site using the "server" site as the backend. class all_terms { public function __construct() [...]
We have merged our on-site IT with Connect Solutions, so there's 5 technicians that are able to support all of our combined clients. It has been a difficult decision, with lots of growing pains, but I feel as if it's the best course forward!
Have been working hard on a listing system that will incorporate google maps, different viewing styles, and link directly into wordpress as both a server and a client plugin. It has been a lot of time and effort but we'll be launching it soon!
There's no easy way to migrate from one shortcode system to another, such as WPBakery to Avada, or using Divi and trying to move it over to Gutenberg. I wrote a simple script to take the basic WPBakery shortcodes and output them as plain text, hopefully saving you a bit of time in migrating old [...]
Need to back up your VPS that has little hard drive space to a VHD with the intention of hosting it internally? Guess what - it's not fun! Transferring data has to be done through the network, unless you have a second drive attached to the VPS that will handle what you need it do. [...]
I use a lot of tools when I migrate sites, and one of them that I've used a few times before is a WordPress importer that takes your Drupal database and migrates it into a WordPress format. It's available here, and I've mentioned it a few times before - does a great job, although only [...]
This was written in 2016 and, as we all know, things have changed quite a bit since then. I've updated it with relevant information! I just wanted to share a few of my useful vendors that make my job easier - from an accounting, time and task tracking, and taking payment point of view. I [...]