Do you need to securely connect a WordPress instance to a remote database that requires connections to be signed (ie. AWS RDS)? Here’s how…

Offload videos uploaded through the Media Library (but not images) to S3 when hosting video for Memberpress – with this small hack.

Extend the WordPress REST API to include personalised content for an external app to conditionally display based on segmentation.

Should you test your new code on live? Probably not. That doesn’t mean there aren’t times when you need to. For those times, do this…

Serve the domain part of a URI based on the domain the client loads your Wordpress site on (ideal for reverse proxies or staging sites).

Route traffic to a failover maintaining the live domain for your visitors if your site can’t be reached or a 50X error is detected.

Use machine learning tools to boost SEO, improve ElasticSearch and help writers concentrate on what they do best… write.

Significantly improve Wordpress performance, particularly wp-admin with Object caching using Redis. Here’s how to set it up in 5 minutes…

Wordpress now has a way to know which instance it’s loading on (ie. dev, staging, prod) and automatically execute code specific to each.

Wordpress cron (wp-cron) works really well. Until it doesn’t. For a small single site blog with relatively low traffic, you don’t need this. But as you scale, or run a Woocommerce store or multisite – this is absolutely worth setting up.