Drupal 7 security support will officially end on 5 January 2025. We look at support options going forward for older Drupal 7 based sites.

I gave a presentation at the Vancouver WordPress meetup in August 2018, about HTTPS and SSL, and why it is so important to use this secure protocol on your website.

Choosing a web hosting platform is probably one of the most important business decisions you will make. Your website is the centerpiece of your marketing – and you should treat it as such.

When working on a project that uses Composer to manage dependencies, you can sometimes run into conflicts - what is sometimes referred to as "dependency hell". In this article I'll run through the issues you may encounter during a composer update, and what can be done to resolve them.

Slider Revoultion is a very popular plugin in the WordPress community for creating dynamic content sliders. The plugin has some issues when used on Pantheon's hosting, due to its non-standard file structure. In this article we'll look at how to get this properly working within your Pantheon environments.

I presented my talk, "Do it in code!", on creating custom plugins for site structure at WordCamp Vancouver on Saturday, August 27, 2016. Here are the slides, and all the resources and links I mentioned in the presentation.

WP Pusher is a new plugin for WordPress that allows you to install and update plugins or themes via an external Git repository. We'll take a look at this plugin and its advantages in a git development workflow.

Usually when doing PHP web development on Windows, the reccomended route is to use a virtual machine based solution such as Vagrant to run a true LAMP (Linux OS, Apache web server, MySQL or MariaDB database, and PHP) stack. Sometimes there are reasons why you might not want a virtualized sever, but a native Windows install, or WAMP. As we'll see in this tutorial, it is not all that difficult to get a native WAMP stack running.