Isaac's Tips + Tricks

Removing smart apostrophes from a database

How-to remove smart apostrophes in the PHPMyAdmin database.Recently migrated a website from FlyWheel hosting to WPEngine. During the migration process, thousands of broken characters started displaying on the migrated

[How-to] Host a static website on a AWS S3 bucket

As you may already know, Amazon offers the best cloud services through an initiative called Amazon Web Services (or simply Amazon AWS). Among the available services are some that, when

[How-to] Host a static website with Google Cloud - GCP

This step-by-step guide shows you how to set up a Cloud Storage bucket to host a static website. Static websites can include client-side codings such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

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Remove unwanted script from WP Header

I’ve noticed that WordPress adds tons of unwanted script to the header. I totally get why, but for highly focused themes, I like to remove as much as

Programming the DJI Tello [Mac]

Starting off, let’s all admit, you are going to crash into stuff, so more space you have the better. DJI Tello How-to: Program Tello to do backflips with

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Installing Roots Trellis / Bedrock / Sage

Not sure how I feel about Roots.io –> The tutorials seem super easy, but I noticed you can quickly run into issues. What doesn’t help is

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Backup VestaCP with Restic [Ubuntu]

Now that my VestaCP install is north of 100GB, backups are becoming more challenging. To achieve an extra level of security, I started backing up my server to S3 using

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Create a WP staging website in 6 steps w/o a Plugin

This tutorial assumes you have some prior knowledge of PHPmyAdmin, adding Domains, and copying files. How-to Create a WP Staging Website: 1. First thing you need to do is to

gravity forms

How to hide Gravity Form field labels

If you want to add support to hide field labels on a field by field basis, simply add the following line of code to your themes (functions.php). What this

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Defining what content shows up based on page type

Quick code to define what content shows up based on page type. I had to have different containers show up depending on page. The Code

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Fixing the blog page title in WP

If your blog page is pulling the title of the last/latest post, here is a quick and dirty fix Add this to your title tags: <?php elseif ( is_

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Add a Gravity Forms shortcode in WordPress (PHP)

To add a Gravity Form shortcode in the header, page, footer templates… pretty much anywhere in the theme, just add this code in your PHP file. Gravity Forms Code:

diskutil

How-to: Format a USB to FAT32 MBR

I was making a piratebox and the USB needed to be formatted in FAT32, MBR format. Apple’s disk utility wasn’t co-operating, so I moved over to

dynamic dns

Namecheap's free DYNDNS

Stumbled upon Namecheaps free DYNDNS service this morning, and I can’t be more impressed. All I did was buy a 0.66 cent domain Namecheap namecheap Enabled the

child themes

WP Child Themes

WordPress child themes are really simple to make, but I’ve noticed most tutorials are more complicated then they need to be. All you need are two files in