Let me guess, you have a website that won’t perform ajax calls the add media button has stopped working, or woo commerce won’t go one action further on any front, right?

If not those three gnarly, yet common WordPress challenges, then maybe your web developer console is running amok with endless “uncaught type error” errors across multiple javascript files.

Nevertheless, hang around WordPress long enough, and the probability of themes, plugins, and/or core WordPress updates conflicting with one another will happen. Most theme and plugins don’t encounter technical challenges when updating unlike core WordPress updates. However, WordPress websites often perform extremely well as long as themes, plugins, and core updates are well maintained on a consistent basis.

Long before there were auto enabled updates across all three platforms, I made a decent living — still do to some extent — logging into clients environments and updating necessary themes, plugins, and core updates.

I’ve had my share of WordPress core updates that have halted any and all web activity, including the administrative dashboard — the latest experience was the WordPress 5.X update (nightmare). WordPress 5.5, jQuery Migrate 1.X was a planned stage removal in regards to updating WordPress’ overall jQuery version — virtually broke ever plugin and theme known to man, including the very popular Classic WordPress Editor and Yoast plugins.

Welcome back to KickstartCommerce.com! Well, you’ve finally arrived on this website in hopes of understanding and finding a solution to the pesky Divi or MotoPress ‘ET_Core_Cache_Directory’ not found error for the WordPress Emmet theme.

It took me the better half of a day to sort through this error code gibberish and remedy it. The good news is that the fix won’t require you to write code or perform some sort of risky workaround.

However, the bad news is that you’ll need to be familiar with using a FTP client — Filezilla recommended. Let’s dive in and help get you on your way!

Welcome back to KickstartCommerce.com! As with much of life, especially when it’s concerning WordPress, errors seem to appear in threes or bunches at a time.

Last week, it was a jQuery conflict error, and this week Bluehost forced the same customer’s hand by auto upgrading their website from PHP 5.2 directly to PHP 7.

Truth be told, the customer was forewarned a few times about how PHP 5.X was outdated and full of security issues that would no longer be supported in favor of having the customer migrated to PHP 6 or PHP 7.

As glitchy as WordPress is when doing simple tasks such as a theme or plugin update, I knew it was nothing but trouble to have upgraded from PHP 5 directly to PHP 7.😳

Welcome to KickstartCommerce.com! Let me guess, your website is not allowing you to update WooCommerce Product Attributes, right?

Or, if not WooCommerce, then maybe you’re encountering all sorts of javascript errors with a site that is severely hobbled in functionality if not completely dead in the water and not functioning at all.

Whether you have plugins beefing with plugins or themes beefing with plugins, I aim to help you rehabilitate your WordPress website back in order, functioning and in tip-top shape.

Recently, a customer of 15+ years contacted me requesting technical assistance in regards to an upcoming book launch.

In the book, the customer references a few links that are to redirect readers to a website of on-page apps containing interactive charts and graphs. Readers are able to visit website, add their own data, and then view the same data as well as adjust the data using charting and graphing controls.

To achieve the interactive charting and graphing functionality for each app on website, this customer chose to use Shiny Server from RStudio.com. I had not realized the full capability of the RStudio service offering as a robust professional data science solution for reporting.

Nevertheless, the customer contacted me because they preferred not to use RStudio Connect and Shinyapps.io in favor of desiring to use Shiny Server Pro. However, the one catch with using Shiny Server Pro is that it requires a Linux Server — this customer is a Windows shop. 😳

Having developed hundreds of websites for others as well as my own, I have had my fair share of experiences with a wide range of web hosting providers.

I’ve hosted sites with Bluehost, HostGator, InMotion, Hostway, DreamHost, HostMonster, and GoDaddy. All have their pros and cons, and hacked experiences.

GoDaddy and Bluehost were my once my go-to web hosting providers. I still have a few personal developed websites and projects that use GoDaddy shared hosting, but my go-to web hosting providers in this season are A2Hosting and RoseHosting.

For one, they offer way more affordable manage hosting virtual private server plans with greater scalability and performance that all previously used web hosting providers. I love the increased performance my websites have realized with SSD (A2Hosting) and NVMe (RoseHosting) storage. And don’t get me started about their quicker-than-lightning customer support experience — team is so personable and knowledge.

Quite honestly, I’m willing to pay more for customer support, managed services, and simply not to be ‘nickeled and dimed’ for every little thing and service offering.

While I love both A2Hosting and RoseHosting, I was reminded the other day about my experience of attempting to SSH into my RoseHosting environment.

It’s been one week since I boarded a plane from Orlando heading back to good ole’ Austin, Texas.

I thought I’d take a moment to share a few thoughts and interactions from my MERGE! 2018 experience.