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Installing Premium WordPress Plugins with Composer

If you’ve Google’d how to install or update premium plugins, like Advanced Custom Fields or Gravity Forms, with Composer, you’ve probably found solutions that want you to configure package data locally. Examples include this tutorial from Roots and this library on GitHub. The problem with these solutions is that they require defining the plugin version …

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Handle Multiple reCAPTCHA’s on the Same Page

reCAPTCHA’s default configuration hijacks pretty much everything about form submission. So anything you want to do with the form, such as validation, will need to be fired in the configured callback function, rather than on the traditional submit event. This is pretty simple for most scenarios because you can use the form’s HTML ID to …

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What does it cost to start using Shopify and Shopify POS for my brick-and-mortar businesss?

Brick and mortar businesses have been around for a long time, and this brand of retail isn’t going anywhere. While plenty of people are content to order peanut butter on subscription from Amazon, there will always be folks who want to shop in person. That’s doubly true for industries like clothing, furniture, and many others …

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Configure Klaviyo Back-in-Stock Notifications for Shopify Dawn

Klaviyo is an email marketing platform with a strong Shopify integration. Of the many features it offers, including personalized recommended products in email campaigns and customer behavior tracking, it can be set up to allow customers to sign up to know when a product on your Shopify store is coming back in stock. Out of …

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WooCommerce Foreign Key Errors and MySQL Engines

Here at Sterner Stuff, we don’t like throwing away existing websites and content. We call that stuff “equity”, and no one wants to throw away equity. When possible, we’ll repurpose as much of a WordPress site as possible when implementing a new design, features, etc. So while it may seem like a brand new site, …

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Configuring WP fail2ban Behind Cloudflare

If your WordPress website is proxied behind Cloudflare, the IP address reported to your server isn’t the actual IP address of the original request. It’s a Cloudflare IP. Most of the time, this doesn’t matter, but if you’re using WP fail2ban, this causes issues. The Problem By default, fail2ban in combination with WP fail2ban works …

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Migrate from WP User Avatar to JJJ’s WP User Avatars

WP User Avatar, now commandeered by ProfilePress, is significantly more bloated than it once was. There are a variety of alternatives to turn to if you want to replace it, but I’ve chosen (and recommend) WP User Avatars, maintained by WordPress core contributor John James Jacoby. The migration here is pretty simple. WP User Avatar …

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Keep MySQL Databases During Laravel Homestead Upgrade

This question has been documented about a million places around the internet with a variety of convoluted answers. How can we upgrade Laravel Homestead without losing our MySQL databases? Instead of writing your own mysqldump commands, or copying and pasting one from an internet stranger, there’s actually functionality for this built right into Homestead. If …

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