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Failing to Suppress PHP Deprecated Messages in WordPress with a Workaround
I originally wrote an article on how to suppress PHP deprecated messages in the WordPress Debug Log, however, shortly after publishing the article, I found that my "fix" was actually failing miserably. Since then, I've been trying every method I could find, old and new, and none seem to get the job done. The closest I've come is being able to hide...
Avoiding Outages when using Wordfence & NGINX
If you run WordPress, it's a good idea to have some type of security software to protect against the endless attacks waged against your precious websites. One of the most popular security plugins available to mitigate this onslaught is Wordfence. Wordfence is a free security plugin that offers a lot of features to protect your site, one of which is called Firewall Optimization which ensures that the Wordfence plugin...
Migrating from Apache to NGINX on Ubuntu with WordPress
Apache has been around forever. It's been the dominant web server since the beginning of the Dot-com era and if you're a Linux admin, you've most likely crossed paths with Apache at some point. Enter NGINX. NGINX hasn't been around for nearly as long as Apache, but it has established itself as the second most used web server platform in the world. I myself have been slow to give NGINX...
Installing Piwik on Ubuntu 15.04
Sample Piwik Dashboard Intro Piwik is an open-source alternative to Google Analytics which provides useful stats about who visits your website. It's biggest selling point, funny since its free!, is that your stats & data are kept private and isn't accessible by the corporate behemoth known as Google. If you don't really care about keeping that info private, then Google Analytics will probably save you some time and effort. For those...
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