I built this site for the a homeschool newspaper publication that needed an online presence. It’s built with WordPress using a responsive design to accomodate everything from phones to tablets to desktop browsers. There are a few interesting plugins: The Facebook Like Box allows visitors to share the articles with their friends on Facebook. Getting the...
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When developing software, it’s important to have different environments so that modifications made by developers don’t affect others outside their own “sandbox” or the “production” server. Best practices generally dictate three tiers: a local development environment for each developer, a staging environment to integrate changes from multiple developers, and a production environment. WordPress is...
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Recently, I wanted to do some WordPress development on my Mac. I’ve got Ubuntu installed on a virtual machine, but I decided to get the stack running on OS X. I’ve been using Nginx for a while now as a web server, caching proxy, and load balancer for some Plone sites. It’s been fantastic...
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