PHP 8 and Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Tutorial — 17 October, 2021
I needed to set up instances running PHP 8 a few times to test that my WordPress plugins and composer packages work on PHP 8. I also have…
Creating a Composer Package Tutorial — 21 April, 2019
This is a simple step-by-step guide to making a PHP composer package that can be listed publicly on packagist.org for anyone in the world to…
How to create and run Bash Scripts — 06 April, 2019
To create a bash script that will work only for your user, you can store the bash files in your user's home directory. The standard place to…
Trying AWS Lightsail — 13 January, 2019
AWS Lightsail is the closest thing AWS has to shared hosting. It is their quick, easy and inexpensive off-the-shelf hosting that has SSH…
Moving a WordPress Blog to Different Hosting — 08 July, 2018
2022 Update This post was written in 2018 and while I think most of the article still applies, there are other methods to deploy a WordPress…
WordPress and the Command Line — 07 July, 2018
These days there are often WordPress apps on the control panel of hosting providers that enable you to install WordPress easily with a click…
MySQL in the Command Line — 04 March, 2018
Following the setting up a Linux webserver tutorial. You may also wish to create a MySQL database. First, install MySQL in the Linux console…