WordPress is awesome! The team there keeps on top of fixes, security holes and is always pushing forward making things (mostly) better. But sometimes, upgrades present new invisible challenges to conquer. I run a lot of WordPress sites and a few days ago, updated to 4.5. Smooth sailing! Well, almost. I found that on the site I was working…
I found myself with the need to install PHP, MySQL and FastCGI onto another IIS machine yesterday and was feeling pretty good about myself as I set out on the journey. “I’ve done this a buncha times now…this will be smooth sailing!” Famous last words, right? So I installed Fast CGI. I installed PHP and…
There is nothing quite like the haymaker of old. Coming out of nowhere. Stealing your breath. Forcing you off-kilter. So there I was, updating my localhost copy of WordPress to 3.0 as I had done so many times without a thought on production servers. Come on! This is WordPress. It just works! Before I could…
I love finding great plugins to use in WordPress. One of my often used controls for adding robust form controls to a WP site is the famously complicated CFormsII plugin (by Delicious Days!) it’s a great plugin which allows you to dynamically build forms of any shape size or flavor, track the results with a…