Patrick Coombe
Please note: this is just a lab, not a "production ready" environment. Not secure. I'm using my blog to document my own journey learning WordPress and hopefully to connect with people that I can help, and who can help me get a stronger foundation in AWS. If you'd like to chat, please hit me up on Twitter at @pmkoom. [...]
Recently I made the plunge with our agency in switching from HTTP to HTTPS, for many reasons: Google is now handing out "insecure notifications" it is an SEO ranking signal, for real other benefits like social proof with HTTP2, it can make your site faster oh, and it makes your site more secure :) So I took the easy [...]
Within this update, I'm going to outline how I was able to build a fully functioning, living and breathing affiliate eCommerce website. Keep in mind when it comes to building WooCommerce websites, I'm somewhat of a machine. So what took me for example a few hours might take someone else 2-3 days. (also apologies in advance) I'm not really [...]
For the longest time I've wanted to build an online eCommerce brand. I've spent the last 5 or so years building them for my clients, and have always had the itch to build one myself. I've gone back and forth about doing this for a while, and decided to drop the hammer last month. I wanted to do the [...]
It doesn't matter if you are a blackhat, whitehat, or somewhere in the middle: understanding how footprints work is a huge part of what SEO is all about. Below I'm going to briefly outline a list of SEO footprints I've collected over the years. The name of the game with footprints is correlation. Does Google Adsense share information with [...]
As of today, Facebook has opened access Facebook Instant Articles to the masses. I still haven't fully grasped what this means, and am still trying to wrap my brains around it. In the mean time, I've signed up for it and managed to get it going for our company blog. Here are the steps to take if you are [...]
For those of you who still haven't seen Google's new AMP live in action, I grabbed a few screen shots to see what the big deal is about. For starters, the results tend to show up for in Google search results that have news scroll-able news snippets, not necessarily in the "news" section but a lot of the times [...]
There are currently 74,000 support requests on WordPress.org for "how to fix 500 Internal Server Error." Let's just say it's a huge problem for people everyday. If you are a user of WordPress then chances are you've come across a "500 Internal Server Error" at some time or another. This server status code basically is telling the user: "Something [...]
Plugins are complicated, expensive, and most of all taxing on your website speed. They add lots of unnecessary extra CSS and JavaScript to your website and can even cause issues if not updated. There are quite a few plugins that I personally use out of sheer convenience, however I will always try to use a custom solution before I [...]
Since the dawn of modern web browsers the favicon has been used as a mini-icon to represent the brand of your website in your browsers title bar. Over the last few years, the favicon has grown up. We have icons, favicons, shortcut-icons, apple touch icons and many more. These icons have various default settings in quality and size. Today [...]
