How MainWP Saved my Chiropractor

2016-03-04T13:20:09-08:00March 4th, 2016|Blog|

Well, it saved his website anyways. I had done everything right, or at least so I thought – except the client had allowed their domain to be renewed without renewing their hosting. […]

Pulse

2016-03-03T20:55:42-08:00March 3rd, 2016|Projects|

I have been slowly working towards adding Pulse to Afterglow - think of it like a heartbeat, every so often it will re-check the server for updated media posts and automagically display them in the open feed. Real time updates you say? Yes. Yes they are. I'm going to have the Pulse controlled from another [...]

Import External Images

2016-02-19T16:30:01-08:00February 19th, 2016|Plugins|

One plugin I use pretty frequently for WordPress is Import External Images. It lets you copy and paste content into your site, then with a couple of clicks it will sideload all of the images in that post that are still linked to external sources. I modified the one on WordPress.org to work with Squarespace [...]

Milestones

2016-02-18T11:31:37-08:00February 18th, 2016|Blog, Projects|

So, I've been watching the registrations on transfermyemail.ca and find it interesting the countries that I'm seeing there. It has started being used in Argentina, the Philippines, Austria,  Nigeria, and the UK, apart from Canada and the USA.  The consistent story I hear with most users is that they're moving from an old/slow/bad host to something newer [...]

Adventures in VPS Land

2016-02-17T20:49:40-08:00February 17th, 2016|Blog|

So, 24 hours of using Virpus, and here's my review. I'll be frank here, I use Ramnode, love Ramnode, and have nothing but good things to say about them. I also use Cirrus Tech to host a Windows VPS. But I'm not one to put all of my eggs in one basket, especially with so [...]

TransferMyEmail

2016-02-17T21:02:08-08:00February 15th, 2016|Projects|

Made some changes to TransferMyEmail yesterday and today - basically I rewrote the parsing routine for folder structure and output of checkboxes. This was needed because originally I had been using "INBOX" as the root folder, which worked to a certain extent, but then had some feedback from Germany, where I found out "POSTEINGANG" could be used [...]

Afterglow

2016-02-17T21:02:17-08:00February 7th, 2016|Projects|

I have this social aggregation project I've been working on called AfterGlow, and it's not without its challenges, but tonight I did some work on it on a few areas that have been insufficient up until now. Instagram's API supports pagination, so I added support for that - full support too, so it will continue [...]

WordPress Plugin: PDFs Open in New Tab

2020-02-14T13:59:14-08:00January 31st, 2016|Plugins|

I had a client recently where I had to import over 150 pages into their site in order to get the moved over to WordPress. I didn't have access to the database as it was a proprietary CMS they were using, so I ended up having to use HTTrack to take an offsite copy of [...]

How to transfer email accounts and messages between servers?

2016-01-11T09:04:51-08:00January 9th, 2016|Blog|

Moving emails to your new server should be relatively easy - if you want to transfer your email messages from one server to another, you can now do this with only your login details. No FTP transfers needed, and you don't need to drag and drop between accounts in your mail program. It utilizes the IMAP [...]

PHP Best Practices

2016-01-31T11:32:18-08:00December 9th, 2015|Blog|

You know the worst part about focusing on function over form, and working mostly on your own? You neglect to make sure that your coding style is uniform, that you're following best practices, and that your code is properly SPACED and INDENTED (one tab per level). A lot of times I don't have to go [...]

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