The Mistake When archiving the Portland Winter Light Festival website to a new subdomain (2026.pdxwlf.com), I performed a standard database migration (Search & Replace) to update the URLs. I assumed that since my media lived in an AWS S3 bucket via WP Offload Media, the links would just follow the new domain. The Problem Everything…
Stop mixed content warnings for good: code snippet that forces all media URLs to HTTPS, even when your migration missed a few.
Evolving Front-End Best Practices, WordPress Realities, and a Case Study on Script Versioning Failures For much of my career as a WordPress developer, I approached front-end performance optimization with a familiar set of “best practices”: minimize everything, combine everything, strip everything, and let the browser load as little as possible. If a setting promised leaner…
When I rebuilt the Portland Winter Light Festival set up, one of my main goals was to reduce the amount of repetitive data entry that had been occurring in regards to the website. With over 160 art pieces and performances, there was a lot of copy-paste-copy-paste going on that was soul crushing for the mostly…
If you’re struggling with Vimeo videos that won’t autoplay in Chrome despite being muted, you’re not alone. This is a common issue that stems from conflicting parameters in Vimeo embed codes, combined with Chrome’s strict autoplay policies. I thought I understood it, but certain stakeholders of my client were still getting only the first still…
Introduction Database performance is critical for WordPress sites, especially as they grow in content and traffic. While attempting to optimize my WordPress database using the Index WP MySQL For Speed plugin, I encountered a serious underlying issue that prevented the optimization from proceeding: multiple rows in the wp_options table sharing the same option_id value of…
You ever go back into a WordPress page and notice the “Revisions” count is something like… 83? Yeah, me too. Look, I’m all for a healthy paper trail, but at some point you’re just hoarding drafts like a content-prepper waiting for the end times. So what happens when you forget to limit post revisions for…
Simpler article written in 2019, I’ve last updated this on July 9, 2025 If you do a lot of WordPress development for many clients, eventually you’ll end up with those local sites eating up a good portion of your computer’s hard drive space. Some of my clients have uploads folders that are +1gb. I used…
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If you’re seeing strange 404 errors in your WordPress site logs or in the Redirection plugin, and they’re referencing image files in your /wp-content/uploads/ folder, you’re not alone. I recently encountered exactly that problem — and solving it required a bit of detective work. Here’s how I tracked down the source of the 404s, figured out why…