There were a few main things that I did to migrate the site without errors: Migrated the database and used a Search and Replace to change all instances of the old site URL Did a fresh install of WordPress using Softaculous on cPanel (but installing WordPress manually or via another installer would work also) Downloaded …
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Working can cause alot of struggle and pain. I’ve been working on some projects and the past couple of weeks have been frustrating and boring. It can be difficult to push yourself though when things are boring, but it makes sense. Each time you push through, you’re practicing for the big show. It’s another brick …
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Sometimes web development projects are extremely engaging, and other times they can feel like a drag. I have found that when I’m working in code, for me, this tends to be a more fun process. Especially when I am doing something more complex. The more complex it is, the more fun I have. You’re a …
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If I don’t want to be the best in the world at web development, why am I doing it? This is a question that Seth Godin brought up in his book, The Dip. The obvious answer would be that it is just a job to pay the bills. Which in some sense is true. When …
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The Dip is a short book by Seth Godin, where he talks about the struggle that takes place after starting a new endeavor – a career, business, entreprenurial venture, hobby. The struggle is The Dip that happens after the start of our venture, and continues before the J curve starts going up, and we really …
What is the point of having goals? They allow us to go closer towards some kind of life and freedom that we want. I think it’s important to have goals as they help us to guide our way. I think Tony Robbins or someone said that having a goal is like having a destination and …
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I feel that the most fun I’m having when doing web dev is actually when I’m doing programming, rather than working in a GUI like WordPress or Divi. I enjoy the nature of solving puzzles, and building custom solutions with pure code. There’s something very creative and technical about it, and there’s something that just …
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This post is in regards to the “Live Sass Compiler” VSCode plugin. Sometimes we want to “Watch Sass” in only certain folders. For example if we have some plugin files in our project folder, we don’t want to watch all it’s containing Sass files when we click “Watch Sass”. See this post as a video …
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Sometimes we have a React component that needs to pass many state values to its parent. Sometimes we even have grandchildren or props several generations deep that need to set state to their grandparent. See this example: Instead of passing all of that state as props to the child component, we can actually just save …
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