Hacking my live installation led to losing my WordPress site a few months back. But, the best lessons are learned through stupid mistakes. Since I’m no longer cowboy coding here is my favorite guide to installing a WordPress server on an Ubuntu 16.04 system. Additionally I added a “must use plugin” or “mu-plugin” to identify […]
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Break stuff, but don’t forget to have backups
I’m one of those WordPress guys who rant about keeping regular backups. Even using a fantastic plug-in that automatically runs a backup every weekend. Everything was running great and I had months of backups safely stored on my web server. Until today, I decided try and install Certbot without testing it on a non-production server […]
Remove Google Fonts from Twenty Sixteen theme
In this example I removed Google Fonts from the WordPress TwentySixteen child theme. function lbp_twentysixteen_child_dequeue_google_fonts() { wp_dequeue_style( ‘twentysixteen-fonts’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘lbp_twentysixteen_child_dequeue_google_fonts’, 20 ); First create a unique function in the child theme’s functions.php file where style can be dequeued using the parent theme’s handle. Then add this as an action to run a […]