How To Run WordPress Locally With Vagrant

April 12, 2012 by · 2 Comments

Vagrant

I’ve always been somewhat disappointed with the available options for running WordPress locally. There are pros and cons to each method (MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP, native, self-compiled, Fink, Homebrew, etc) … but they’ve taken too long to setup, don’t allow for enough configuration options (or in most cases allow me to run multiple WordPress websites at the same time) and leave unused config files and data deep inside my computer when I decide to uninstall. Vagrant is a new way of approaching this setup and seems to solve all of the issues I’ve had in the past when trying to get a local environment up for WordPress.

Vagrant makes it easy to run a full virtual linux (or Unix) server on your local machine … kind of like you’d run windows on a mac using VMWare (only with much less RAM & CPU being drained on your local machine).

Vagrant isn’t always used to run WordPress locally (obviously, it has many…many other uses) but I’ve found that one of the main ways I use Vagrant now is for running a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) server locally … which I then run WordPress on.

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AdSanity: The BEST Way To Display and Rotate Ads On Your WordPress Website

December 13, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Who do you know that is writing a blog for their business and doesn’t want to make money? Stupid question huh?

We all know the best fix for this — get some ads up on your site, right? Have you tried doing that? There’s all kinds of HTML to copy & paste, then you have to figure out how to put the ads on the sidebar of your site (or other places) and then figure out how to rotate ads — trying to manage ads manually can be an absolute nightmare — gah.

Well, my good friends, Brandon & Jeff over at PixelJar have now created a plugin that is in my opinion the perfect addition to WordPress for displaying, rotating and tracking ads on your website — its called AdSanity. [Read more...]

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Affiliate Royale is Live

August 23, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Affiliate Royale is the ultimate, customizable affiliate program software for wordpressGuess what? Today Affiliate Royale is live. Finally!

In a nutshell, Affiliate Royale is a full Affiliate Program for your products that runs on your WordPress website — it just installs like any other WordPress plugin and is easy to get working with your shopping cart.

Anyway, go check out this awesome, new WordPress plugin over at http://affiliateroyale.com

Oh yeah, as promised we’re offering a special deal on it for the launch, but you know that won’t last long … so don’t wait, get over there asap.

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Pretty Link Bugs Squashed

March 22, 2011 by · 28 Comments
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Today we released Pretty Link version 1.4.56. It fixes numerous bugs including:

  1. Pretty Link (Lite and Pro) is now 100% compatible with WordPress 3.1 and Multi-Site. Pretty Link has been running well with WordPress 3.1 but these Pretty Link fixes have been put in place so that future updates will work properly (especially when a Pretty Link release updates the database).
  2. Link slug availability routines have been shored up to allow pretty links from being able to utilize all slugs that truly don’t conflict with page, post, category and tag slugs.
  3. Fixed link rotation form in Pretty Link Pro so that the link weights won’t reset when the page is reloaded.
  4. Fixed a minor auto link creation issue that affected posts when the Default Group was set to “None” in Pretty Link Pro.
  5. Made several modifications to the hit resetting routines especially when Simple Click Tracking is enabled.
  6. Made several enhancements to the Keyword Replacement Routines in Pretty Link Pro.

We recommend that all Pretty Link Lite & Pro users upgrade to 1.4.56.

Reports about this release that have been coming in from users this morning have been very positive … so you have no excuse but to upgrade …

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