Marcus Burnette
WordPress Support at SkyVerge

Insight Articles

An infrequent take on all things web.

May 23, 2018

WordPress Orlando Q&A – May 2018

WordPress Orlando held one of its monthly Q&A sessions on May 22, 2018. The following list of links covers the majority of the resources described throughout the night.

May 16, 2018

WordPress Updates Permissions Error [FIXED]

Recently, I moved a WordPress site from one host to another and ran plugin updates, but that’s where I ran into an issue.

May 3, 2018

Disable Emails Sending from WordPress in Development

You don’t want to send emails from your site to users twice – once from the live version and once from the development version. What you need to do is stop your local site from sending emails!

February 1, 2018

Why I Moved from Digital Ocean to Cloudways (and Digital Ocean)

I’m not a server admin. I don’t run server stacks and optimize buffer pools. This is where Cloudways saved the day.

December 31, 2017

Two Oh One Seven

As 2017 comes to a close, it seems fitting to do what so many others are doing and reflect back on the year that was.

December 20, 2017

Style Previous Sibling Elements with CSS

After having to look this up a couple of times now, I figured I’d share my approach. While you currently can’t technically style previous sibling elements, I’ve figured out a pretty handy workaround.

August 24, 2017

Forcing www or non-www in WordPress with an htaccess

Using the .htaccess file, you can force www or non-www URLs using the following snippets that should appear ABOVE any other code in your WordPress .htaccess.

August 19, 2017

Well, that’s kinda awkward….

For the last couple of weeks, this site has been undergoing some changes. Yes, it looks different, but that’s not the biggest change….

January 26, 2015

Building DrupalVersion.com

A few weeks ago, I launched a new utility called DrupalVersion.com. It has one simple purpose: find out if your sites are up to date with the latest version of Drupal (6 or 7).

January 4, 2015

Last year around this time I posted an article here that wrapped up 2013 and set some goals for 2014. The slate has once again been wiped clean for the new year, but now’s as good of a time as any to reflect on the past year and set new goals for the coming one.