Over the past few years there has been a growth of companies using the “plugins as a platform” type model. They will offer up their core plugin for free, and then monetize it with paid extensions. WooCommerce is the most notable in this market,

About a year ago I was searching around for how to best implement Redis into WordPress and did not come up with much. There were a few blog posts around the internet from a few developers who got it working but I never did

Recently I activated Jetpack Comments on a site that also had WooCommerce and this completely broke the reviews system because of course Jetpack wanted to do it’s job and replace the comments with it’s own. After Googling around and checking WordPress.org

Ever let your WordPress users database get a bit out of control? If you do not allow user registration but have too many users that have no posts or reason to be on your site here is a quick SQL query to clear those

I can’t say I know where this started or why it started but it seems the hosting industry for the most part has taken SSL certificates and the lack of a customers education on the market and turned it into high profit margins.

Some shops just do not have many products, or want to list all the products availble on a single page. Out of the box WooCommerce will paginate your products. Maybe you want to list all your products on one page though? The easiest way

Official Announcement I even have had the opportunity to again contribute to Ghost, take a peak in the credits and you will see my name! My Contribution Since about 80% of my freelance work I do is in some way related to eCommerce, and

If you have logged in to (almost) any WordPress site since version 3.1, you have probably seen the admin bar at least once. At first it was a nuisance for most people, a very popular blog topic was how to disable that annoying

In my last post I explained how to add your own custom options to the WordPress customizer in the Underscores theme. Today I am going to show you how to add **basic **WooCommerce support to your custom theme. In an effort to keep your

While my blog runs on Ghost, 99% of the client work I do is WordPress related, and when I’m doing client work and need to develop a theme I use Underscores. Underscores If you work with WordPress for a living and even remotely

So I heard from a few others after my recent blog post about my data server that they were not aware of the autoindex feature on Nginx (or any) web servers. So I though I would give a little more info on that. Description

A few blog posts ago were about Bittorrent Sync and mentioned a server I was getting setup to sync my data to as a backup and as an “always on” “Dropbox” like replacement for Dropbox. Well this server is online now running Citrix XenServer

Those who know me enough to have discussed servers know I dislike getting dedicated servers when a VPS will do just fine. VPS are sitting on a dedicated server somewhere, so whats the deal? Rarely do those who use dedicated servers NEED all those

Recently I’ve moved to BitTorrent Sync to help keep my data synced. In my searching around I saw a handful of blog posts and guides showing how to sync your data onto a “cloud” by using a VPS. This is great in theory

Dropbox works great at what it does, I think just about everyone would agree with that statement. However it just doesn’t “fit” for me anymore. I don’t know if its the security issues that regardless of how many of them are irrelevant

That is the panormic view from the lake looking towards the Polynesian Resort where Cassie and I got married today and will be spending the next week. Today was very exciting and the days leading up to it we were both a bit anxious,