Obfuscate Your Code at Your Own Risk 15 Jul 2013 | 11:37 pm

Looks like ZippyKid no longer supports WishList Member. I think it raises a good point about obfuscating code. Hiding your code behind some sort of encryption like Base64 may prevent your code from be...

List your MySQL Tables According to Size or Row Count 22 Feb 2013 | 10:07 pm

If you’ve ever been debugging a large Multisite installation that’s having MySQL memory issues you know how maddening it can be. Sometimes you can turn on slow logging and find the source of the issue...

Regex to Match Opening Slash 25 Dec 2012 | 06:44 am

Just in case anyone needs a regex that tells you that a string does NOT have an slash at the beginning, here you go. This is useful for handling paths defined by users and you want to check whether it...

Giving WooCommerce a Try 11 Dec 2012 | 11:26 pm

Just a quick announcement. I’m now using WooCommerce for my eCommerce so please let me know if you have an issue. I was using Cart66 but it makes use of sessions, which are disallowed by WPEngine for ...

Simplr Registration Form Plus v2.1.9 8 Oct 2012 | 08:12 pm

Simplr Registration Form Plus I just pushed Simplr Registration Form Plus 2.1.9 … lots of behind the scenes updates and code fixes. Primary visual enhance is the UI for the TinyMCE shortcode button. ...

Function: get_template_part_cached() 26 Aug 2012 | 01:47 am

In my WordCamp Chicago presentation I had an bunk version of this function. Here’s a better version. Though we could probably still improve even this:

Slide Deck From WordCamp Chicago 26 Aug 2012 | 01:38 am

Thanks everyone for coming to my presentation at WordCamp Chicago. The organizers did a great job putting everything together. Here’s my slide deck. WordCamp Chicago Slides

Thesis Cache(r) Beta – 2012-07-31 1 Aug 2012 | 02:39 am

Through my work at WPEngine I’ve found that using the Thesis Theme can occasionally lead to some performance issues on higher-traffic sites. Nothing spectacular, there are a ton of themes out there th...

A Wee Bit of Downtime 26 Jul 2012 | 09:22 pm

Sorry folks, we had a wee bit of down last night due t0 my own stupidity but now we’re back up and running. Back to working too much and blogging to little. As most of you know I’ve taken a position a...

Hiking in Annadel State Park 6 Jun 2012 | 12:27 am