My favorite WordPress 16.04 setup guide

My favorite WordPress 16.04 setup guide

Peppermint-sandbox-server

Hacking my live installation led to losing my WordPress site a few months back. But, the best lessons are learned through stupid mistakes. Since I’m no longer cowboy coding here is my favorite guide to installing a WordPress server on an Ubuntu 16.04 system. Additionally I added a “must use plugin” or “mu-plugin” to identify … Continue reading “My favorite WordPress 16.04 setup guide”

Break stuff, but don’t forget to have backups

I’m one of those WordPress guys who rant about keeping regular backups. Even using a fantastic plug-in that automatically runs a backup every weekend. Everything was running great and I had months of backups safely stored on my web server. Until today, I decided try and install Certbot without testing it on a non-production server … Continue reading “Break stuff, but don’t forget to have backups”