VegasGeek writes about the broader tooling and infrastructure decisions that sit around WordPress itself from local dev environments, caching, and the plugins and scripts built to solve specific problems along the way. Posts here include setting up a local WordPress dev stack on Mac with Homebrew and building custom plugins like Set Sort Order when no existing tool did the job. This is the technical layer behind the builds.
I got so annoyed at losing track of my own reminders that I built an app to fix it. It’s called Help Me Remember, it’s free, and it runs on the web, iOS, and Android. Why Reminders End Up Scattered Across Five Apps Reminders get scattered because wherever you happen to be, the easiest place…
As a long-time WordPress developer, over the years I’ve used every sort of tool available for running WordPress locally for development purposes. I remember starting with XAMPP, moving to MAMP, Desktop Server (RIP), and I event tried Local by WP Engine for a while. They’re great tools for getting started… download, click a button, you’ve…
The Core Insight: Business automation fails not because of coding complexity, but because of a “vision gap”. Most owners normalize repetitive manual tasks, like domain tracking or report generation, without realizing they are prime candidates for AI-driven automation. The reaction is always the same We’ve been building a lot of automation scripts over the past…
Sometimes, the best product ideas come from scratching your own itch. A while back, we had a client with a daily process running behind the scenes. Everything was fine… until one day, it wasn’t. The process broke, and nobody was notified. Weeks went by before anyone realized it had stopped running. Ouch. To fix this,…
Over the past month, I’ve been putting some extra effort into updating the VegasGeek site. As they say, the cobbler’s kids have no shoes. Well, the web developer’s website is the last to receive updates. One of the first things I noticed was the preview image being used on social media when I shared the…
While working on a client project, I added a few custom post types and a custom taxonomy to each. Once the client started adding content to the site, he asked, “How do I sort the order of the items on the page?” This should have been a simple request. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. After…
For the past two years, I’ve been working with tpn.health to build an online platform where clinicians earn continuing education credits through live and on-demand classes. When we started out, we used many off-the-shelf plugins, and over time we’ve written and rewritten tons of custom functionality. One plugin that has been a staple the entire…
Depending on where you host your website, you may not have ever needed to consider how your site sends email. Most shared-hosting services handle outgoing emails automatically. But, if you are setting up your site on a Digitial Ocean or AWS server, that may not be the case. If that’s the case, you will need…
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…
This year for WordCamp Orange County, the organizers have put together an event called Plugin-A-Palooza. To enter you simply needed to come up with an idea for a plugin, write it and release it to the WordPress plugin repo by a certain date. When I first heard about it I thought to myself, “This is…
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