Sometimes all you need is a quick scraper to help you get the information missed in a database search-and-replace. I recently hacked together this single use scraper repo. Fork, extend and tweak for your needs!
Category: Web Development
Finding and Clearing PageSpeed Cache
How to flush `mod_pagespeed` cache in LiquidWeb’s new Managed WordPress package.
Becoming a WordPress Theme Reviewer
I just attended the 2015 PDX WordCamp and am now helping out at the contributor day. Of course contributing to core can be done in a number of ways, but one of the areas that I’ve always wanted to help out with is through theme review. The above link to the theme review handbook is quite comprehensive in regards […]
Password Protecting a Directory Using NGINX
How to password protect a directory using NGINX. This concept is similar to Apache’s password protection of directories using .htaccess rules.
Discovering Browser-sync
There’s a new tool that I’m loving as I explore various ways to streamline my multi-device development. http://www.browsersync.io/ This tool is a node module, which synchronizes interactions between multiple browsers and devices, enabling multiple, concurrent views of the same state of a website. So as an example, we would start browser-sync on the root directory […]
Vagrant Tools for WordPress Development
The whole Vagrant ecosystem is developing rapidly with numerous tools being updated and created. While it’s hard to keep up with all the new individual software entrants, there are a couple of tools that I keep coming back to as I become more comfortable with my WordPress development workflow. Vagrant Tools VVV (Varying Vagrant Vagrants) Alison […]