A simple Automator program to output the IP addresses of some URLs.
Time to Upgrade your Hosting!
We are going through a switch away from HostGator for our standard hosting plan due them slipping on their support for WordPress (see Yoast’s article for more details) and because their customer service wait times have increased significantly in my experience (previously only a few minutes to an average of around 30 minutes each time). […]
Controlling your WordPress Post Categories
I am building a site where we are relying on the post categories to help drive some of the site organization and architecture. This has made organizing the site easier, but presented a couple of new challenges. I wanted to use the built in Category description field to provide content for the ‘pages’ that display […]
Setting Up MAMP Development Environment
I recently reinstalled my Mac OS so now I have to set up my development environment again. I figured this was a great opportunity to document my settings in case they helped someone else or I needed them later. This article documents how I set up MAMP. Step 1: Download MAMP and UnZip Step 2: […]
WordPress Security 101
WordPress runs 17% of websites worldwide or more than 700 million website (1). This makes it an extremely flexible and powerful too to get your website up and running; however, it also makes it a prime target for malicious attacks. No system is completely secure, and WordPress is certainly not an exception. My hope for […]
Gmail links in To Do's using textexpander
I have evaluated several to do applications. I really like OmniFocus, but it will not work for sharing tasks with other people. I recently switched back to Asana. You can see my initial review of Asana here. I also recently switched to using GMail in the browser for its better integration with other aspects of […]