PHP

For years now, WordPress and PHP have been best buddies. Despite WordPress technically being a sub-framework built on top of PHP (with its own unique coding style, hooks, filters, and so forth), its reliance on underlying PHP functions has always been critical to steering WordPress development. A few years ago, before PHP 7 came out, […]

LittleBizzy is officially in the WordPress plugin business. It’s true! Today we are happy to announce our very first FREE plugin, Server Status, that is already installed on all our client servers (as of the last 48 hours). It has joined the ranks of our Must Use plugins for LittleBizzy because of its ability to […]

Several clients and people in the WordPress community can’t stop asking us if/when we are going to be offering PHP7 as part of our managed hosting services. Despite our sheer excitement over the newest versions of PHP, the answer, at least for the time being, is simply NOT YET, and this is due to our […]

We promised 2016 would be a busy year for us, and it’s true! Already this year we’ve launched WP StageCoach for staging websites, along with CloudFlare Pro for our Enterprise plans (and as an optional add-on to other hosting plans). Now it’s time to announce Opcache, the latest and greatest service being offered FREE to […]

If you have never heard of Opcache before, you may be more familiar with its former name: Zend Optimizer. In the old days, PHP “bytecode caching” did exist but it was always a 3rd party service that had to be re-compiled as part of your PHP install (or entire Apache install, as it were). With […]

Sometimes when you are designing a custom WordPress template you will need to create a new theme file. For example, you may already have common files such as index.php or single.php but you may require a new file, e.g. page-contact.php in order to design a custom contact page. Luckily, there is a VERY EASY way […]

Firstly, a disclaimer: I am the biggest fan of improving server response time you will ever find. That being said, in no way am I a fan of cherry-picking trendy metrics or phrases when it comes to website performance, as ultimately everything is related. From DNS, to RAM memory, to SSL certificates, to a website’s […]

phpMyAdmin is one of the most loved AND hated applications among server administrators for rather simple reasons. Firstly, it is widely loved because it makes SQL database administration so easy by way of a proper UI (user interface), but secondly it is widely hated because it is so often the target of hackers and other […]