When you start getting serious about building WordPress websites, you’ll want to start developing on your own computer. It’s a lot faster, you can do it offline (at the beach like the promo shots for those “lifestyle gurus”), and you don’t have to worry about making mistakes. Many premium plugins, that otherwise limit the number … Read more
If you want to install WordPress on your local machine, you have a number of options. I prefer to use XAMPP because it’s been around for ages (so it’s stable and has a lot of tutorials), I can use it on my Windows, Mac and Linux machines, and if I want to do some PHP … Read more
You should have a development environment for every live WordPress site you own or work on. You’ll hear terms like “staging site”, “local server” or “development environment”. Yes there are often nuances between them, but basically they’re just a copy of your live site. You really should have at least one copy of your live … Read more
Redirecting pages or websites tends not to be something most web designers deal with on a regular basis. What sometimes happens is you change your domain and keep the pages the same on the new domain. You don’t want to redirect all the pages of the old domain to the homepage of the new domain, … Read more
With PHP 5.6 reaching the end of support recently, now is a good time to write a refresher on how to update to a more current version. How to update the PHP version on cPanel: Take a backup of all the sites on the server Log in to cPanel Look under Software for “PHP Selector” or “PHP Manager” Choose the domain to … Read more