Month: May 2019

  • Squeezing More Performance From My Site

    Squeezing More Performance From My Site

    One of the things that I handle for clients at FixUpFox is site speed optimization. I also help with performance optimization, which I almost lumped into this post, but I think that it deserves its own overview at a later date. I also began blogging more regularly on this personal site, thanks to the support…

  • What is WP_DEBUG for and how do I use it?

    What is WP_DEBUG for and how do I use it?

    Turning on WP_DEBUG will allow you to see PHP warnings, notices, and errors so that you can fix them in your code.

  • WordCamp Atlanta 2019 – My Review

    WordCamp Atlanta 2019 – My Review

    I’ve been attending WordCamp Atlanta since 2013, and it’s been one of my favorite annual WordCamp events. It is larger than WordCamp Orlando, with an average of 600 attendees to our 350, but it rarely feels large with the sensible layout of the venue and separation of spaces. Everything is in one building across two…

  • PHP v7.1 and v7.2 Illegal Strings

    PHP v7.1 and v7.2 Illegal Strings

    An update to Yoast SEO v11.1 came out yesterday, causing a few site errors relating to illegal strings in PHP. It made me dust off this post to provide some detail on what that PHP warning is, why it is happening, and how it can be fixed. Last year I updated all existing client sites…