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How to Upgrade from PHP 5.6 to 7.2 for WordPress
Here is the process I used to upgrade three large WordPress sites from PHP 5.6 to 7.2.
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Moving from Homestead to Valet for WordPress Development
Homestead is a pain, so I’m moving to Valet. No more VMs, Vagrant boxes, or mysterious error messages and failures (hopefully).
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Automated Accountability Check-ins
During the Praxis bootcamp, participants are expected to make every single day a non-zero day. Most participants ask us to hold them accountable, so they email one of our staff each day and that person emails them the next day if they miss a check-in. This takes an enormous number of emails, staff overhead to keep track of, and is difficult to search. Here is my solution to that problem.
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Rebuilding cagrimmett.com and Moving Old WordPress Posts to Jekyll
Earlier this week I did a major revamp of cagrimmett.com. It started with redesigning my page templates to include a sidebar, then it morphed into making a long-standing goal of mine reality: Reviving the posts from my old 2008-2012 WordPress blog and getting them into Jekyll while preserving old links. Here’s how I did it.
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Simple Microblog WordPress Theme
When I learned about the Micro.blog project by Manton Reece, I decided that I wanted to host my own microblog, so I made a minimalist microblogging WordPress theme for that purpose.
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HTML and CSS Basics for WordPress
Resources for WordPress users who want to use HTML and CSS to alter the structure, look, and feel of their themes, posts, and pages.
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My WordPress Stack
Here are the tools, hosts, themes, and plugins I use to build WordPress sites quickly and get the most out of them after they launch.
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Adding Full Width Front Page Widgets to Genesis Themes
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Moving your Jekyll Site to Amazon S3 and Cloudfront with Outside DNS
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3 Lesser-Known Hubspot Tools
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Jekyll Tools
A collection of Liquid templates I made for my Jekyll-powered blog: Adding open graph and Twitter cards, Disqus comments, posts by tag, a heatmap calendar for posts, and a book review template.