At the time of this post the version of apache with http2 support is not supported by Debian so you have to go into the testing branch to get it and then configure apache.  This tutorial should take you through that: https://www.shivering-isles.com/http-2-getting-ready-on-debian-with-apache2/ .  Just incase the tutorial ever goes down I’ll mirror it at the end
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I’ve installed somewhere between 300-500 wordpress sites in my life and I have no idea how I hadn’t heard of WP CLI until now but man oh man this thing is awesome.  Never again have to log into an admin site to do updates and maintenance because WP CLI is here. First off, head over
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If you use gf_left_third or anything else that’s moving elements around and resizing them you could run into the trouble where the submit, next or previous buttons no longer stay at the bottom but jump up into your design.  To fix this you just need to insert this into your themes style.css file body .gform_wrapper
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This might be one of the more obscure solutions I post but I imagine I’ll need to reference this later and save myself the 2 hours of searching around it took me today.  So if you want to change the background color for dropdowns go into formsmain.css and go change the following:   First ot
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In the words of Dom, one of my favorite Bondi Hipsters: “Well this is Awks”. I was doing some redesigning and upgrading of wordpress for a client of mine and to make the process a lot easier and faster I setup a temp version of the site on my server where I didn’t have to
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Well I’ve certainly setup my fair share of shopping carts in wordpress over the years but this weekend’s undertaking proved so bloody troublesome that I felt like I was getting my WP e commerce  cherry popped for the first time.. God what a nightmare. So here’s what I needed to do:  I had a site(www.drrosebackman.com)
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Well this article started off a lot shorter and simpler than where it ended up and that’s because over the course of this week I’ve discovered some limitations with the first and simpler method I was advocating.  I’ll keep that for last but start off with the best way to ‘syndicate’ your blogs onto the
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This is more of a reminder to myself than anything.. But if you have a calendar plugin installed on wordpress that is syncing to a google calendar and the time of the events on your wordpress blog are completely different times than on your google calendar then you need to change the timezone in wordpress
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I first saw this in action when I setup wordpress on a shared host after running it on my dedicated server for years.  All of a sudden when I clicked ‘install’ there was no FTP prompt, the bloody thing just installed!  I was amazed at this new development and looked into how it was done.
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