Category: open source
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How a Referrer Spam Plugin Slowed Down My Site
Initial Spike At the beginning of February 2024, I was experiencing a spike in my Google Analytics (GA4) data for a couple of my blog posts. It was a little shocking to me because the article that I wrote wouldn’t have warranted such traffic. I’m no habitual writer that gets that much traffic. I started…
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Three WordPress Meetup Talks In One Week
If you asked me how many talks I’ve attended in person and the amount I have watched online, I wouldn’t even know where to begin counting. Meetup events, design conferences, web development conferences, TED Talks, expo events, book club discussions, etc. It would mount to the hundreds, easily.
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Discovering other WordPress Meetups in Massachusetts
This past Monday I attended the Boston WordPress Meetup and got to listen to Rob Petrin talk about Gutenberg’s development roadmap within WordPress. So far, we’re on a very good path. A lot of new features have been indoctrinated into the system and are providing more options for users to build unique-looking sites.
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Proprietary Rights to Your Digital Content
The social web of today is highly integral to our daily lives. How we share these secondary extensions of ourselves is through digital social platforms. The vast majority of these proprietary platforms harness our activities through threads, forums, and instantaneous feeds. Utilizing our data, to make business and marketing decisions and suggestive social connections. It’s…
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Boston WordPress Meetup Experience
So I don’t remember when the last time I attended a Boston WordPress Meetup was, but it was definitely a time before COVID hit and when Microsoft kept their large amphitheater seating open. We all sat in bleacher-style wood seats while watching the presenters give their talks.
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Wrangling With WordPress Database Prefixes
About a week ago, I was tasked to migrate a Disaster Accountability Project’s website from Bluehost to Namecheap. Migrations are usually seamless if the provider(s) allow some symbiotic connection between the two. Case in point: when I worked with Educate Radiate Elevate, they moved their server from a UK-based system to A2 Hosting.
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Trending Tech: HTMX
I first heard of this technology from Siegfried, deploy! podcast, episode #41. Didn’t think too much about it until another recent article came up in my feed today from Infoworld. This got me thinking about the uniqueness of HTML attributes again. In the past attributes have been used for a variety of things for the…
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Attending WordCamp Rochester, New York 2023!
As you may already know, I have been a huge fan of WordPress since college. I’ve used the platform since 2008 and have fond memories over the past decade-plus, working on my own WordPress client work or tinkering with projects at an agency.
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Understanding What Point Release Means Within A Development Cycle
The first time I’ve ever heard of this terminology was during a WordPress Meetup event. Developers were discussing the upcoming changes with WordPress 6.3, five days before the initial release. New tools, new user interfaces, and security enhancements that may or may not make it into the production release. I, however, was Googling “point release.”…
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Comparing Simple Theme Builder Options With CMS Platforms
Let’s start by comparing the biggest divisions in website development. The advent of this division started as early back as I can remember around 2008 which was my first experience with anything related to software as a service (SAAS). At the time, open-source platforms such as WordPress and Drupal dominated the field of website development.…