I want to present a quick jumpstart to connecting with and using FTP and SSH, which are both very useful tools. Let’s jump right in and start with FTP. Getting Started with FTP FTP is slow if you’re dealing with lots of files, but it gets the job done and is very reliable. I typically use Dreamweaver for my FTP … Read More
Changing out WordPress content is usually pretty simple, but every once and a while it’s easy to get stuck. I’ve found myself asking, “how do I change this text in WordPress” dozens of times. I have assembled a list of places to check, in order from most likely to least likely that should help you to change anything on your … Read More
I’ve dealt with quite a few WordPress website hacks and infections, especially lately. While there are virtually unlimited numbers of ways your site can be compromised, I am going to focus on some likely ones and the methods I’ve used to fix 95% of the sites I’ve seen hacked. These methods all assume that you still have WordPress admin dashboard … Read More
DNS is something that sounds incredibly complicated and takes quite a bit of messing around with to actually learn and get a decent grasp of. So I decided to make a guide that tells you exactly what you need to know to work with your own website or, as a web developer, to work on client websites. I’m going to … Read More
Sometimes you just need to see how visitors arrived at a specific page on your website. You may want to know about the referring domain, or maybe even which pages on your own website referred users to a particular other page. This also works for a multitude of other uses. Pretty much anything you can find out about a website, … Read More
As a web developer, I frequently encounter situations where I need to have access and modify files in the root directory or within the WordPress install and I don’t have FTP access. Often, I simply want to update some plugins but don’t want to do it without access to these, in case something goes wrong. Well now you can do … Read More
This article is mostly for my own use, but perhaps you’ll find some use for it too! These are just the steps I take to ensure that all of the URLs and site information are correct for the live site vs. the test location. When I set up a test site on Cloud Access that is later to go live … Read More
I just heard back from the support team at Greatives, the team behind the Reload WordPress Theme. I was having an issue where Masonry galleries created in Visual Composer displayed exactly the same whether I was using “Stamped” or “Masonry” as the display mode. In the demo they have here, you can see that “Gallery Stamp Masonry” looks very different … Read More
If you need to search an entire directory via FTP for a text string (or search by filesize, date, or path), I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news it, if you are searching for files containing the string in their name: you can do it easily with FileZilla. The bad news is, there isn’t really … Read More
