BackupBuddy review and experience

The problem I have close to a dozen sites that I personally handle.  That includes feature requests, performance, and backups.  To perform backups, I pretty much set aside a decent chunk of time to manually export the WordPress databases, then I FTP down the...

Styling the WordPress Admin

The WordPress backend has a very specific look to it.  If you are looking to add a new page there, you’ll want to style it similarly.  It’s not very clear what is available, but after a lot of searching, I came across these links that help shine light on...

Reviewing WordPress Themes

Intro Recently, I joined the WordPress Theme Review Team.  I’m in the process of reviewing my first theme and these are some notes that may come in handy. Setup a test environment I have a local WAMP setup.  If you develop for WordPress and are still uploading...

WordPress Query Performance

Understanding what WordPress is doing under the hood can be tough – especially when it comes to the raw SQL queries.  As is usually typical with WordPress, somebody has written a plugin for it – in this case, it is called debug-bar.  To get it going, do...