So what is WP-CLI? WP-CLI or the WordPress Command Line Interface is a PHP based tool that allows you to manage your WordPress site via SSH (Secure Shell) interface. In simpler terms, it is the back-door to your website. WP-Admin is the GUI or Graphical User interface gives you something nice to look at, with […]
where I cover just the important bits! Here is a little segment I present every month at my local WordPress Meetup which will provide some info and insights on all the awesome things I have come across over the last few weeks. These will include things like: All things WordPress New or Awesome training discovered […]
and some Development success and fails from 2016 Things I did differently this year. A lot has happened this year, both personally and professionally. I set out at the start of the year to make some changes to both these areas and I feel pretty good how things went. I have changed my eating habits […]
How to configure PHPStorm terminal to use GitBash on windows! Being a developer who likes using Windows can sometimes have its quirks but using PHPStorm and configuring the Terminal to bash instead of CMD can be very helpful. I have a preference to use bash, mainly sh.exe distributed with Git for Windows. If you are […]
Development to Staging to Production First, big thanks to everyone who attended WordCamp Sydney 2016 and all the awesome people who organised it. This event was my second this year and my second time speaking, truly is the best event to attend. It’s important to remember that everything I talked about on the day and […]
When starting as WordPress freelancer, agency work can be helpful and detrimental to how you value yourself. My thoughts on how to set your rate/value. Guested onto an excellent webinar with @troydean Troy Dean yesterday and glad I jumped on. We had a chat about what a WordPress freelancer or developer costs. I always love […]
I recently had to install the PHP executable on my laptop for my local Laravel dev. I had some issues, pulled out some hair so I wanted to post what happened when I tried installing PHP on Windows 10. Just installed the local php.exe for Windows 10 on my laptop, had some issues and thought […]
Here are some very new things coming to Windows 10 to make non-windows development way betterer. I have been working on ways of improving or finding the perfect setup to develop non-windows applications on Windows. By that I mean not working with dot NET applications in Visual Studio. I primarily work on WordPress and also […]
I have an FYI for you, more for myself but if this info helps others, double-bonus. I have recently started combining my love for AngularJS with my experience on ongoing work with WordPress. The thing about working with AngularJS is there are a lot of scripts needed for even a small project, goes with the […]
Making AngularJS Development on Windows 10 just little bit easier Always the same, lots of excellent setup tutorials “How to setup Angular Dev” but almost always on Mac. Not bashing, love Apple. I currently own an iPad and owned a Mac book Pro for some time, until they surface mounted everything and made owner upgrading […]