A basic guide on how to debug WordPress themes and plugins

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This blog post is going to be slightly more technical than usual. It’s targeted towards developers/coders of WordPress websites. If you’re just installing a theme, adding some plugins from the repo, and configuring them, this post is not for you. If you write custom plugins, build your own child themes, or themes, or if you’re the… Read more »

Introducing Smushkid – optimize images to speed up your website.

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A long time ago, I wrote an article talking about how to speed up your photography website by using the Smush.it plugin. This was literally a few months after the company had started and we were hosting less than a 100 websites. As we’ve grown, and as Yahoo! has declined, we started noticing a lot of… Read more »

How to connect to the Rackspace NextGen cloud via the command line

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About a year ago, I wrote a blog post showing you how to connect to the Rackspace Control panel via the command line. Recently, Rackspace announced their NextGen Cloud, something we’ve been privately testing with them for the past 8 months. Now that it’s stable, and has been thoroughly tested, I wanted to share the… Read more »

How to Set Up Funnels and Event Tracking in Google Analytics and MixPanel

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Funnel analytics show your website’s ability to accomplish the goals that matter to your business. If you’re using your site to drive some activity (i.e. signups, pageviews, completing a survey, etc.), you need to make sure you have the right funnels in place. First we have a brief overview of event tracking and funnel analysis,… Read more »