I love my wordpress website themes. I love my layouts. And we did a good job of getting them up to speed, literally, but they no longer keep up with Google’s new-new-new-new speed & mobile requirements. So, we’re going for a new one. This time, we’re going to build our own speed-optimized, amp-friendly WordPress theme […]
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Could I use WP Engine’s Let’s Encrypt & RapidSSL SSL on the CDN using a custom domain if the CDN is provided by WP Engine?
The answer, in short: The question: Could I use WP Engine’s free Let’s Encrypt SSL on the CDN using a custom domain if the CDN is provided by WP Engine? The answer: Nope, because even though WP Engine provides a CDN, the CDN is actually offered and maintained by a 3rd party provider, which means […]
How to set up a WordPress install in WP Engine (with Pics).
So, my wife wanted to make sure she had instructions to install WordPress sites on WP Engine. Here’s how I’ve done it. If I forgot anything, let me know please. Additional New Install in WP Engine Log into to you my.wpengine.com account: Click the Add Install link at the top: The easiest way is clicking […]
Redirects between subdomains [WordPress multisite] in WP Engine – so far.
To split my site up into Digital Marketing and Writing, I had to take the Googley-Woogley posts out of my writing site and migrate them to this subdomain. To do it properly meant 301ing the URLs from the Writing site over to the Digital Marketing. I went to check WP Engine’s redirect page. It’s cool, […]
Setting Multisite with Subdomains in WP Engine [WordPress]: What I need to remember in the future.
Here’s what I did wrong when setting up the WordPress multisite feature in WP Engine I didn’t set the subdomain, which I had to do because I do not have the wildcard set for the domain in WP Engine. The error I was getting I kept getting a DNS error in my web browser. I […]
[WordPress] Contact Form 7 and reCAPTCHA Issues Solved…8 Years Later.
Article Outline My Issue was PEBKAC Other steps to try Quick refresher on how to merge Contact Form 7 to reCAPTCHA on WordPress Very Lost? Try these resources… Addendum: Why it took 8 years (Don’t judge me). After 8 years, I finally figured out how to get Contact Form 7 to work – with reCAPTCHA […]
Questions to ask premium WordPress hosting services. I hope.
Yes. Chris & I are currently building an enterprise-level e-CMS platform and yet I’m still looking at premium WordPress hosting solutions for a project. More on the why below. But first, here are the questions I sent WP Engine, Pagely, A Small Orange, and GoDaddy – with updates and amendments based on peer suggestions (thank […]
Components of a Blog
While working on Project 03, one of the questions we had to address was to ask what made a blog a blog. At first the question sounds simple. Spout off, “It’s like WordPress,” or “Drupal,“ or – God help me, “Blogger.” If you say The Social Network, in the beginning, Zuckerberg is liveblogging with vintage […]
“Uh-uh” – Teaching Majik the Value of WordPress iPhone App
Out in Valparaiso with my old roommate, Majik. Majik still works at the boat up along the lake. Nowadays he deals craps. Back in the day he was very much a part of the Valet madness. Right now, I’m showing him the value of today’s smartphone apps. In this case, the WordPress app on the […]
My wordpress app works!!!
I finally got the iPhone 3g WordPress app working. As a co-worker told me, “The thing can be temperamental.” I don’t think I can get to the plugins, the spellchecker is left to be desired and, by God’s Holy light, be careful about closing out the app in the middle of a post because the […]