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Releases, tutorials and the story behind each project: how the plugins and apps are designed, built and shipped.
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Site Replica Pro vs BlogVault: staging to live compared
Site Replica Pro vs BlogVault: price, hosted staging or a local copy, keeping live orders and members on merge, and roll back, compared side…
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Site Replica Pro vs All-in-One WP Migration
Site Replica Pro vs All-in-One WP Migration: price, push and pull between sites, keeping live orders and members, and rolling back, compared fairly.
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How to push a staging site to live without losing orders
How to push a staging site to live without losing WooCommerce orders, members or form entries: the options, what each one loses, and a…
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AccessNow Site Replica 1.0.3: safer backup storage
Site Replica 1.0.3 stores each file once, under its checksum, so a backup never holds a runnable copy of your site’s code. Restores keep…
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AccessNow Image Optimizer 1.2.1: smaller AVIF files
AVIF copies of photos could come out bigger than the JPEGs they replaced. Version 1.2.1 gives AVIF its own quality setting and never serves…
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Every project here starts hidden
A directory of your own work fills up with half-built things. The fix wasn’t discipline, it was making “not ready” the default.
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Letting you run an app on my site without handing it the keys
Some projects here are a single HTML file you can try in the browser. Running a page’s own scripts on your own domain is…
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The chores app that had to survive my own family
A rota on the fridge fails for one reason: nobody looks at the fridge. So the app had to do the one thing paper…
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Support that lives inside the app, not in an inbox
Every app I build eventually needs a way for people to say “this is broken”. Email is where those messages go to die, so…
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Backing up a 3.4 GB site on hosting that fights you
The usual advice is to make one big ZIP and download it. On a shared cPanel account with 30-second limits and no spare disk,…
