Category: Tips for Developers
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8 Questions with SIDEKICK’s Ben Fox
Today I was fortunate enough to interview another well-respected member of the WordPress community, Ben Fox. Ben is a serial WordPress entrepreneur, co-founding FlowPress, WP University, and SIDEKICK.pro. If you’re looking to forge a career in WordPress for yourself, you should listen to what he has to say carefully. In this interview, Ben will talk…
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8 Questions with Top WordPress Blogger Kevin Muldoon
Today we launch a new feature for the Pagely blog, with a series of interviews with some of the top members of the WordPress community. Our first interview is with top WordPress blogger, Kevin Muldoon. With a decade and a half’s experience in Internet marketing, Kevin certainly fits the bill. He’s ran many successful websites…
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IPv4 vs IPv6
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This tenth post in the series is about the IP address system, and in particular IPv4 and IPv6 and why knowing about them is important. We’ll walk you through the…
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Git Basics
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This eight post in the series is about Git, which unlike previous posts, doesn’t stand for anything and is neither an acronym, initialism, or abbreviation. We’ll walk you through the…
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Rsync Basics
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This seventh post is about Rsync, which stands for Remote Sync. We’ll walk you through the basics and provide a video on how to get started hands-on. Rsync is a…
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WP-CLI Basics
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This sixth post is about WP-CLI, which stands for WordPress Command Line Interface. If you’ve ever worked with Drupal’s command line tool Drush then it should be easy to learn.…
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SPDY and WordPress
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This fifth post is about SPDY (pronounced speedy) which we offer on our Business, Professional, Ultimate, VPS, and Enterprise plans. What is SPDY? SPDY was developed primarily by Google for…
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SSH and WordPress
This post is part of a series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This fourth post is about SSH which we offer on our VPS and Enterprise plans. The previous post on FTP vs SFTP touched on SSH a bit, but this one…
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FTP vs SFTP
This post is part of a new series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This third post is about FTP including its cousin the secure version (SFTP), and will attempt to explain the difference between the two and why they matter if you’re…
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DNS Basics
This post is part of a new series designed to help developers who are just starting out understand some basics and how they relate to WordPress. This first post is about DNS, including what it is and why you need to understand it. DNS stands for Domain Name System, so let’s get that out of…