gnetconsultingWordPress is the world’s most popular content management system now dominating nearly 40% of all websites. One reason …
We support some legacy PHP code for several clients. Because of this, we have been strongly suggesting that they upgrade their code to PHP 7.3 so they can get off of older PHP 5.6 (and some even older – yikes!) servers.
I don’t need to explain the value of WordPress. That can speak for itself. There are times, however, when I come across something that stumps me.
I currently help support several CentOS 7 servers for various clients. I admit that I am not a Linux guru by any stretch. But I can setup a server, install Apache, PHP and MariaDB, install SSL certs, update firewall rules, etc. Basic server needs.
Today, I needed to see what the downstream was like for a server I help maintain. Usually in Windows I would go to SpeedTest.net and see what it was, but this isn’t going to easily work on a CentOS server. What to do?
I was recently working on a WordPress form that uses the Contact Form 7 plug-in to build out the form. The client reached out and wanted a new checkbox that, when checked, would make certain fields display and mark them as required. When not checked, they wouldn’t be required or display to be filled in. Here’s the solution I came up with.
SOAP has been described by many as an easy way to build and consume web services. Up until yesterday, my opinion of that was greatly different. One 3 separate projects, we had found 2 different ways to get it to work properly, none of them the same. On 2 we resorted to using cURL and posting them ourselves! Yikes!
Today a client of ours announced that they were purchased by another company. Inevitably with this comes website changes, and one change that was needed was to basically phase out the existing corporate website for the purchased company.
Recently on a project the client asked to be able to post testimonials on their site. Normally we install the Testimonials Widget, as it gives us a lot of flexibility, has short codes so we can add to different pages and categorize them, and more. So, in this case, we did, as well, and added a few for them for their approval.
We work on a rather large project that interacts with files stored in the Rackspace Cloud. Users often …