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When to use your development environment

When to use your development environment

What’s the big deal with development environments? I can always just undo my change and republish. Well until you can’t. If you are testing themes or plugins you may get to a point of no quick return. Or worse.. Restore your backup return.Which is fine because we have one now, but bad because that takes time.

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How do I do local WordPress Development?

How do I do local WordPress Development?

So...just how can you do local development on WordPress? If you Google search this subject, you will find dozens of suggestions. Are you using Windows? There are like 20 choices.... Are you on a Mac, you have even more choices! Are you running Linux as your desktop?...

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Why I care about backups and YOU should too

Why I care about backups and YOU should too

My friends don’t have backups. Are they really that important? Yes. Yes they are. Backups are an important part of your site. They are your insurance policy against bad patches/updates, hardware failures, and if done correctly they can protect you from the results of a hacker.

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Backups

Backups

Backups..... you *know* you need them.  They are your protection from mistakes, accidents and even malicious intent.  If they are working correctly, they let you quickly and easily recover for any mishap you may run into.  In order to be the...

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Wifi woes

Wifi woes

So I bought into the [amazon_textlink asin='B00XEW3YD6' text='EERO' template='ProductLink' store='azurenight-20' marketplace='US' link_id='20bb9816-749a-11e7-93fb-3f61fc01723b'] way back during the pre-order days.  It seemed to be a great solution at the time (there...

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Hosting — so where am I going to put this now?

Hosting — so where am I going to put this now?

So, if you have been reading our blog, you know we decided to start this "web site" business and after much turmoil and false starts, eventually decided to go with WordPress.  Maybe you have decided to do you own blog too!  Or maybe you are thinking about starting a...

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Why WordPress?

Why WordPress?

So, you've decided you want to build a website.  Or you want to start blogging.  Or you want to setup an online store to go along with your physical store.  Now what? Typically, you go find someone to do the work for you.  But, what if *you* are that person?  Then you...

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