👨🏻‍💻 WordPress and PHP 8.3

I had read that WordPress 6.4 was to have beta core support for PHP 8.3, and as always, I was excited to update PHP when it became available. Recently, I noticed that PHP 8.3 was available within Ubuntu, so I bit the bullet and upgraded. I am not planning on rolling this out to customer …
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🎷 WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” Released

While I was out of town having my first “real” vacation in a few years, WordPress decided to release version 6.2, so I am a little late to the party in posting about this. WordPress 6.2 was named “Dolphy” after a jazz musician named Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. who from my short reading looked to …
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⚡ Does my WordPress site need a Caching Plugin?

The answer is maybe!, of course, depends on who you host with, and even then I would probably sway toward using one. Why? My host already provides serverside caching! While that might be the case you can still often benefit from using a caching plugin as they tend to offer other bells and whistles that …
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🔒 Securing your WordPress site

When it comes to securing your WordPress site there are many ways to go about doing just that. Please allow me to outline a few basic things that can be done to help secure your site outside of having a secure hosting provider for your WordPress site. Choosing a Host As mentioned the first thing …
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