We use the free UpdraftPlus plugin to connect to Amazon S3 for WordPress backups. AWS is cheaper than Google Drive or Dropbox for our storage needs.
Adding new domains are easy when you host multiple similar sites with OpenLiteSpeed VHost Templates. We use this for hosting WordPress on Amazon EC2 by AWS.
After using its GUI, I turned to the command line Search Replace DB tool when I moved a WordPress site. Here is why and what errors prompted me to do it.
You are not supposed to use the visitor’s email address as the From email header. Learn why, and see how we set up Contact Form 7 and Elementor.
Learn how to send mail from Amazon EC2 instances by utilizing Simple Email Service (SES). You’ll use a PHP snippet to tell WordPress the SMTP credentials.
Do you want to use an email address with your domain, but don’t want to check multiple mailboxes? You can use Mailgun to forward those emails to Gmail!
The first step of moving WordPress to the cloud is choosing an appropriate Linux image. I’ve tried Amazon Machine Image and DigitalOcean variants.
A snippet that adds an author dropdown to filter posts by a specific author. This is for the All Posts screen of the WordPress admin dashboard.
Our JS-driven automatic table of contents that gathers headings in the article. The result is a list that animates to the chosen part upon clicking.
Grammarly helps me write these articles and I share why I chose it and how it affects my workflow. It’s an AI-based spell checker that works in the cloud.
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