Updating Trellis – WordPress LEMP

Updating Trellis can be a challenge initially and there is no one way to do it. Lots of people wrote about it at Roots Discourse and on Github. Most of them require some major git foo. Did write about updating the Trellis server before, but not on how to maintain Trellis itself. Here is my- […]

WP CLI Installation of WordPress

To do a WP CLI Installation of WordPress on a server where WordPress Command Line Interface is installed is quite easy. Let me explain here how you can get WordPress installed with it in no time. WP CLI Installation To install WP CLI itself do a curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar chmod +x wp-cli.phar sudo mv wp-cli.phar […]

Mailchimp Comment Optin – Fixing Outdated Constructor Error

Mailchimp Comment Optin is a plugin we still use for some of our clients. Fixing Outdated Constructor Errors is needed to work with it properly. The error you get will be: ( ! ) Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; MCAPI has […]

WooCommerce and Gutenberg – Great stuff ahead!

WooCommerce and Gutenberg.. What will happen when Gutenberg Editor gets introduced to your WooCommerce site in WordPress 5.0? Will it be Armageddon and will all product fields below the description and title field break? Do you need to deactivate Gutenberg just to keep your ecommerce business up and running? What is Gutenberg? Gutenberg is the […]

Bedrock Valet Can’t connect to local MySQL server Error

If you want to set up a Valet Bedrock based WordPress website and you run into this Valet Can’t connect to local MySQL server error. It will block you from generating a Bedrock WordPress website. It is however easy to remedy. Valet Can’t connect to local MySQL server Error The error you get will pop […]

Jupiter Page Background Image Position

The Jupiter Page Background Image Position can be a challenge with certain images. Sometimes the background image added behind your page winds up looking horribly cut off. So how can we improve the Jupiter Theme background images? Background Color & Texture Jupiter only allows for general background-position directions. This can be done per page using the […]

Trellis Server FTP Credentials requested by WordPress

Just today WordPress asked me to enter FTP Credetials to proceed after I adjusted an image using the Jupiter interface for header images. This had never happened before on any Trellis setup of mine. FTP Credentials Needed The full error message was on a very basic page with the fields to enter the ftp user […]

PHP Strict standards: Declaration of A should be compatible with B

We bumped into an PHP Strict standards: Declaration of A should be compatible with B issues.We had a theme made by us quite some time stop working recently.  One we we were using as a demo mainly. So we decided to work things out. As many of you might bump into this I decided to […]

WP Rocket Algolia Search Conflict

When I ran Algolia Search with WP Rocket I bumped into WP Rocket Algolia Search Conflict. With JavaScript Minification turned on I got several errors JavaScript Errors I got this error: [Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) (head.js.map, line 0) as well as these: Uncaught ReferenceError: […]

Boost Sales with Algolia Search

Let’s face it, WordPress built-in search kind of blows. You can improve search and boost sales with Algolia Search. It will upgrade search to site wide search including products and offers suggestions! And it really easy to get going. Improving WordPress Search Visitors as we know can be an impatient bunch. So if we allow […]