Last week I watched live as the WordPress core developers rushed down to the wire to release version 4.4. It was the first release that I’ve been around to watch be pushed live, and it was really fun. I make my money on keeping people’s WordPress installs up to date and backed up, but I […]
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Cyber Monday and The Freelancer’s Dilemma
As I write this, the onslaught has already begun of companies offering absurd deals on their products in honor of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Businesses You Should Support Sunday, Cyber Monday, and Please Somebody Give Me Money Tuesday. It’s the week where we all try to sell you stuff. As a freelancer with a […]
Beginner Mistakes in WordPress: not using a Staging Site.
Easily a top-ten mistake I see beginner WordPress users making is updating plugins, themes, and other code on the live site. Updating your code on the live site, without checking to see if it’s going to break stuff, is what developers call “Cowboy Coding,” and it’s an epidemic among beginners. If you update it on […]