Author: Sharon

Hello there! I'm a web developer in Louisville, Kentucky. I started on this career path by purchasing an O’Reilly PHP book from Barnes & Noble in 1999. Since then, my desire to learn as much as I can about web site building and server maintenance has grown. I love technology and what it can do to simplify our lives and make it more interesting all at the same time. Seeing a creative design come to life and bringing it into the web world is my favorite puzzle to solve.

My server experience is based around launching WordPress-friendly servers — Linux (Ubuntu and Centos flavors), Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I have worked with various modules, extensions, installs such as ImageMagick, LetsEncrypt, Sass, LESS, and the Homebrew family of extension.

My main love has been with PHP, and my CMS of choice has been WordPress since its inception in 2003. I find it flexible, secure, easy to design around, and so customizable. My strengths are in developing from-scratch plugins and themes for the WordPress CMS with a strong background in PHP and MySQL development.

Web Hosting on OS X

Included in this post is information on those errors and some general suggestions on setting up your own web hosting on your OS X machine.

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Universal wp-content Directory

Add this code to your wp-config.php file when installing a self-contained WordPress install on this site. This will ensure that the themes and plugins directories pull from the main wp-content directory on this server. The additional code will ensure that the uploads are left within the individual site install. define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/var/www/marketing/wp-content’ ); define( ‘WP_CONTENT_URL’,…… Continue reading Universal wp-content Directory

Debug

Add these lines to your wp-config.php file to turn on debugging. Information will be saved in wp-content/debug.log file. define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true ); define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, ‘/tmp/sitename-wp-errors.log’ ); define( ‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false );