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Simple A/B testing in WordPress with Google Analytics site experiments

As we’re about to make some significant tweaks and changes to the main product pages on the Smart Insights site, I’ve looked at a lightweight way to do simple A/B testing in WordPress. What is A/B...

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Getting the WordPress current template name in posts and pages

Yesterday I needed to selectively hide breadcrumbs for particular WordPress templates, but had some issues with getting the WordPress current template name when needed, so I thought I’d share how I...

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Sending your own output to the WordPress debug log

Every WordPress developer knows how to use WP_DEBUG in the wp-config.php file to enable the WordPress debug log. But how do you go about sending output to the WordPress debug log, so you can debug your...

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Increasing the PHP timeout on NGINX for WordPress

I’ve been using a Vagrant development set up for a while now, which has introduced me to NGINX after always using Apache in the past. The transition has been fine in the main, though I had an issue...

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How to monitor and reduce WordPress memory usage by plugins

One of the best things about WordPress is that it’s so easy to extend your site’s functionality with the many (mostly) free plugins available on the plugin repository. But loading your site with too...

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Installing Git version control on a shared hosting provider

Due to a server upgrade, my ‘staging environment’ hosting provider, Aspiration Hosting broke the self compiled version of Git I had running on the server, which meant I had to go digging once more to...

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Implementing Google Universal Analytics Measurement Protocol in PHP and...

I’ve had some historic difficulty in being able to track ecommerce transactions in Google Analytics that happen ‘behind the scenes’ of the Smart Insights site – typically when PayPal sends an IPN...

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Fixing Vagrant after an OSX Mavericks update

Being too eager, as I generally am, I went straight ahead and updated to OSX Mavericks when it launched yesterday, and it broke my development environment. So how do you go about fixing Vagrant after...

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Fixing PHPStorm after an OSX Mavericks update

I use PHPStorm for all my development – it’s a robust and very featured IDE that has got even better recently since version 7 was released. As such it’s the application I spend a large percentage of my...

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How to store billing address information from the s2member plugin

s2member, the membership plugin we use on Smart Insights, doesn’t store the billing address entered when people purchase memberships or products. I needed a way to be able to get access to that...

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