Quicksaves are my go to when troubleshooting WordPress issues. Arguably one of the most useful feature of CaptainCore, if you ask me :). They track themes and plugins with a visual breakdown of what changed and when. A huge time…
CaptainCore is just a collection of bash scripts tied together using a cli called Bash CLI. Bash has it’s limits. I’ve been thinking about replacing the underlying Bash CLI with a more robust solution. In terms of creating CLIs there…
I started out looking for a domain provider to replace Hover.com and ended up building on top of Hover’s undocumented and unsupported API. Here’s the how and why I got here. Last month I mentioned about wanting to build domain…
I’m sure you never found yourself in a situation where you need to backup something when you don’t have the space to do it 🤣. Some context. For the past few years I’ve been running a cheap $5/month Digital Ocean…
I recently migrated my self-hosted Fathom Lite from Digital Ocean to a Google Cloud for better scalability and a bigger VPS. Fathom’s recommended solution for HTTPS is to put Fathom behind Nginx as explained here. While doing the server upgrades…
I’ve been self-hosting a Fathom Analytics instance for basic web stats since early 2018. That’s even before Fathom reached v1.0. The open-source version of Fathom is now called Fathom Lite and the hosted version of Fathom has been completely rewritten…
There are many options for running a recurring-based business. In the WordPress ecosystem, using WooCommerce with WooCommerce Subscriptions is a very popular and versatile combination. It’s how I’ve been handling payments from customers at Anchor Hosting for the last 4…
CaptainCore runs commands like backup, update, quicksave and scan-errors across many WordPress sites on a scheduled basis in the background. Until now there hasn’t been any way to see any progress in the UI. That makes it really difficult to…
I spend the last few weeks cleaning up Javascript within CaptainCore for some much needed performance improvements. One of the items on my long to-do list was to reduce the amount of data sent to the browser. I was able…
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