The Blog

Instead of writing down the ways I can scale myself somewhere I'll never see them again, I'll blog about them. Maybe someone will find them useful.

WordPress at-scale can be database-intensive. Configure WordPress to use AWS's auto-scaling RDS Aurora clusters for an affordable way to handle the load.

Laravel Spark notifications get in the way of Laravel's default database notifications. This tutorial will walk you through how to use both.

Website performance directly affects your SEO rankings, and Kinsta's annual benchmarks show us how the PHP 7+ can help push you over the top.

This recipe post for Chocolate Crinkle Cookies doubles as a demo of features for WordPress's Gutenberg editor. Columns, quotes, and videos in action.

Ever wanted to adjust a WordPress page template based on whether or not the user used the Divi page builder? Here's the function that'll let you know.

Gutenberg is a cool step for WordPress, but the new editor is causing headaches with plugin and theme incompatibility and breaking websites. What to do?

Customizing where InfiniteWP stores your WordPress backups is an easy task. Here's how to configure it for storage in another directory.

Still putting off an SSL? Come July 2018, Google is going to make your website look pretty bad. Read why you need to get this done, and if you need help, I've got you covered.