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A FacetWP tutorial for hiding Wordpress query results until a user activates some facets, and displaying a message instead.

Canonical links tell Google to ignore duplicate content you might be publishing. Here's why you might want to do that and how to implement them.

WordPress 4.2 upgraded eligible databases to use utf8mb4 collation. If yours wasn't upgraded for some reason, here's how to do it manually.

Trying to use SSL certificates on Laravel Homestead? This quick tutorial tells your browser to trust Homestead's root CA file and all SSLs generated from it

New WordPress users sometimes make parent theme changes without a child theme. Learn how to setup a child theme without losing those modifications!

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.