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Why your WordPress site keeps breaking — and how to make it stop

Sites don’t break randomly — they break for the same five reasons, in the same order. Here’s the pattern, and the boring fix that…

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Remove Annoying Admin Notifications With This Awesome Plugin

WordPress is a pretty awesome tool. It’s well developed and has a lot of great features out-of-the-box. But some of the baked in features…

Apr 27, 2016
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Self Hosted Invoicing

Today’s post is aimed at my fellow agency owners and freelancers. What are we going to talk about? Invoicing and document signing, of course!…

Feb 22, 2016
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LearnDash Tutorial for Creating Courses and Selling Them with Easy Digital Downloads

More and more people and businesses are monetizing their content and websites by offering online courses. I think it’s a really smart idea. LearnDash…

Jan 9, 2016
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WordPress Blogs and Podcasts Worth a Damn

What? You thought I was going to do a blog post and troll the blogs and podcasts that I hate? Come on, people! Get…

Jan 15, 2015
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The Problem With Developing for BigCommerce

Outright saying that something sucks is generally a ballsy call. I’m not the kind of person to outright call a system out for being…

Nov 16, 2014
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Restoring Your Website on SiteGround Hosting

Step 1. Submit a support ticket! Have it answered in 5 minutes and be done!! There. End of article. =) Oh, wait, you wanted…

Sep 26, 2014
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Bypassing the WP Engine Login Lockout Period…

Do you host with WP Engine? We do! In fact this site is running smoothly on WP Engine!! WP Engine does a lot of…

Sep 23, 2014
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