Bedrock Plugins Installation

The Bedrock Plugins Installation is set up differently. More efficiently too I daresay. That is why often beginners with Bedrock bump into the fact that they cannot install plugins from the Dashboard. In this post I will get into the reasons and benefits behind it. For a general overview of Bedrock see the post Bedrock Modern WordPress […]

Sage 9 Beta 3 WooCommerce Setup

Since I wrote my last post on setting up WooCommerce in Sage 9 things have changed once again. Sage 9 beta 3 has adjusted its structure and looks even more like a Laravel app. And WooCommerce has also been adjusted and since WooCommerce 3.0 several patches have been added. So let’s discuss the Sage 9 Beta 3 […]

Bootstrap Navigation in Sage 9

If you are working with Bootstrap and like most Sage developers are brave enough to work with the Bootstrap 4 beta with all it’s goodies you will often want to add a Bootstrap menu. So how is a Bootstrap Navigation in Sage 9 done? Here is how. Sage 9 and Bootstrap When you install Sage 9 […]

Sage 9 WooCommerce Setup

To set up Sage 9 with WooCommerce things have to be done slightly different from the setup in Sage 8. This mainly as Sage 9 works with the Laravel Blade templating system. It is mostly the same though. Here is how the Sage 9 WooCommerce setup is done. Note Also see Sage 9 Beta 3 follow-up post Steps to […]

Digital Ocean Monitoring Beta Setup

Just installed Digital Ocean  monitoring beta on one of my Digital Ocean droplets where I have Trellis running for a WordPress client of mine. It is a new way to monitor bandwidth, memory usage and I/O. And also a way to get alerts when your droplet gets hit hard on one of those metrics. Installation […]

Contact Form 7 CSS Boilerplate

Basic Contact Form 7 CSS styling is horrible. Here a basic setup in CSS I have been working on and will update from time to time. A gist at Github I set up based on one by codehandling. Make sure you do not use the labels and that you check the configuration. Basic Form Configuration […]

Access MariaDB on Trellis LEMP using Sequel Pro

To access MariaDB on Trellis LEMP using Sequel Pro from you local box is easy once you know how. Like with most things in life really. But the main thing is that you need to know the proper way to access the database once you have set up SSH access properly with Sequel Pro (see […]

Trellis Let’s Encrypt Expired SSL / TLS certificate – Cause and Solution

Though Trellis VPS setups should auto renew the Let’s Encrypt certificate automatically I had a certificate expire for one of my Trellis sites the other day. Here is how I found out about the Trellis Let’s Encrypt Expired SSL / TLS certificate and how I worked out solving it. Google Search Console Warning The reason I […]

Advanced Custom Fields in Sage

Sometimes you need to work with custom fields for a theme. This as you work with a template that consists of many different content fields and that tend to need different layouts too. And sometimes you do not feel like doing it all from scratch because you are lazy, or because you simply have more […]

Custom PHP Settings in Trellis

Often when you set up a Trellis server you find out your PHP settings are not good enough for the WordPress app you are building. Simply because you run a plugin like WooCommerce that needs more than the default 96MB PHP memory. Or because you are a fan of a slider like Revolution Slider that […]