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Automate Cloudflare and SpinupWP Cache Purges with Git Hooks
The Core Insight: A local Git pre-push hook that calls the Cloudflare and SpinupWP APIs automatically clears your cache on every push, with nothing to configure on the production server. There’s a version of this conversation I’ve had more times than I care to count. I push a change, send the client an email saying…
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How to crop and resize images for your website
When adding images to your website, it is important to upload a properly sized image to fit the need. It’s not just about the visual display (although, that can be an issue, too), but improperly sized images can have an adverse effect on your site’s page speed. That, in turn, can hurt your search engine…
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How to Set Up a Local Copy of Your WordPress Site
As the organizer of the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup, I’m constantly telling people that they should test new releases of WordPress using a staging site or on a local development site prior to running the update on their live site. Never has this been truer than with the upcoming release of WordPress 5.0 that includes…
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Git + MAMP + SiteGround
For too long now I have put off the chore of getting my local development environment set up in a way that would allow me to use Git to push my code directly to SiteGround. I had tried in the past but always ended up hitting a stumbling block somewhere along the way. There is…
Category: Tutorial
WordPress Tutorials: Step-by-Step Dev Guides
VegasGeek publishes step-by-step tutorials built from real project work, not generic how-tos. Recent guides include automating Cloudflare and SpinupWP cache purges with Git hooks, and setting up a local WordPress development stack on Mac using Homebrew. Each tutorial here has been tested in production before it gets written up.
