How to migrate a site with BackupBuddy

The WordPress Codex has a detailed tutorial on moving WordPress in a variety of circumstances, and it’s fairly straight forward, especially if you know your way around Apache and MySQL. We build a lot of WordPress based sites and need to migrate sites all the time. From local development to staging servers, or to a live…

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Blood Moon Eclipse

I’m an admitted space nerd. I love anything doing with space, NASA, or tiny green men. And I miss the Space Shuttle terribly. So the opportunity to see a rare Blood Moon eclipse wasn’t to be missed. I even got the kids up at 1:30am to have a look. It was pretty spectacular, equally as…

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Responsive Web Design

We first began experimenting with responsive design techniques way back in 2011, but have yet to sit down and define what it is, and more importantly, what it means to us. So let’s do that. The Technical Explanation of Responsive Web Design Let’s start with what Wikipedia thinks Responsive Web Design is: Responsive Web Design (RWD)…

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The Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug

On Monday, security researchers announced a security flaw in OpenSSL, the defacto standard in securing data on the internet. NPR reported about it this morning, have a listen to their report: I host with you, is my site safe? To all of our Cinch Hosting clients, we want to reassure you that your website is…

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Opening Day

While I don’t think Opening Day should be a national holiday, I do say a quiet thank you to the heavens that the day has come. Happy Opening Day, and may the Twins make it to October and beyond. Or at least not embarrass the crap out of me again. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/31705013″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″…

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On Blogging and Self Publishing

Since the day we began building websites on content management systems we’ve encouraged our clients to blog; To write about things that might interest their clientele in order to engage a community and drive traffic to their sites. Usually we suggest these sections be labeled a ‘blog’ – in the name of calling something what…

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