How to use user metadata in post types via Advanced Custom Fields in WordPress

Henrik Bernström

To get the most out of this article a basic knowledge of PHP, WordPress, custom post types and Advanced Custom Fields is required. If you’ve ever needed custom data input for your WordPress posts or pages (or any other kind of custom post type) then Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) is the shit! It’s flexible, extensible [...]

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Using s3cmd to Backup your WordPress Installation

Henrik Bernström

This article will explain, in a few short steps, how to backup your WordPress installation to Amazon S3 service. It will deal with Ubuntu as operating system and Amazon EC2 for hosting but is not limited to such an environment. Prerequisits are an Amazon account for the S3 service, a WordPress installation and knowledge of [...]

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Blogging Among the Clouds

Henrik Bernström

Up until now this WordPress blog has been hosted by DreamHost, a company with a good reputation and a solid knowledge in hosting. Unfortunately, the server we’ve been located on, Trafficante, have lately had some problems with stability and performance and DreamHost have also had some MySQL stability issues. This, plus the fact that we’ve [...]

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