By this point, if you have installed your first inspiration, it’s time to check your site for possible improvements in speed and performance. Installing the inspiration has given your site a certain look and feel. This kind of customization gives your site a personal touch. But once those considerations are taken care of, and you’re Read More >
Christopher Maiorana
Christopher Maiorana joined the InMotion community team in 2015 and regularly dispenses tips and tricks in the Support Center, Community Q&A, and the InMotion Hosting Blog.
Git Config Recommended Settings
“Git config” is not only a concept but a command. When first starting out with Git, a few configurations must be made right away. You can provide these configurations by running a few commands, but as you continue to use Git for more and more projects, you may have need more advanced configurations. In the Read More >
Using Emacs Tramp For SSH (Emacs SSH)
The Emacs “Tramp” functionality brings the power of SSH into your text editor. You no longer need to open a separate terminal window in order to run scripts, edit files, or perform other server maintenance. Tramp lets you do it all right inside of an Emacs buffer. Additionally, Tramp is built into Emacs, so you Read More >
Using Emacs Dired as a File Manager
The popular Emacs text editor can be used as a drop-in replacement for other programs in your system. For many users, this helps to reduce operating system bloat. For others, it can be waste of time. But if you’re in the former camp, this article will show you how to use your text editor as Read More >
Git Rebase and How It Works
WooCommerce Product Addons and Extensions
WooCommerce, like WordPress itself, allows you to install third-party extensions, addons, and plugins to extend your store’s capabilities. For example, maybe you want to integrate shipment tracking, membership, or PDF invoices like other stores are offering. You can do all of these things with WooCommerce extensions, add-ons, and plugins.
Create Editorial Calendars With Open Source Tools
Creating an editorial calendar helps align your content goals with the reality of scarce resources. Time, energy, and cost are the real every day resources you have to deal with when producing content for your website or business. Create Editorial Calendar With Written Events Some Theory: Treat Written Documents as Events Rather Than Tasks Add Read More >
How To Install and Serve Gitweb on NGINX in Debian
Gitweb is the free and easy alternative to GitHub for anyone looking for a simple way to view and share git repositories online. You don’t get all the attractive features like easy HTTP cloning, actions, and metrics, but you get a minimalist web front end for displaying your git repositories; and for many use cases Read More >
How to Install a Private Search Engine with Searx on Debian
If you’ve ever complained about big search engines like Google and Bing logging your search activity and profiting from it, you’ve probably been greeted with the same sarcastic reply: “Ha, then why don’t you just create your own search engine?” The joke behind that reply is that it would be impractical to try to have Read More >
How To Create a Recipe Blog in WordPress with WP Recipe Maker
Interested in becoming a recipe blogger? Or, are you just looking for an effortless way to share your delicious recipes with friends and family? The WP Recipe Maker plugin is a complete plug-and-play solution for managing recipes on your site. For a fast, optimized WordPress experience check out the InMotion proprietary WordPress Hosting recipe. Publish Read More >
How to Create Your Own Git Server
There are so many Git hosting sites out there, including the popular GitHub, which acts as a hub for thousands of software projects. But for one reason or another, hosting your own Git repository may be preferable. In this article, you’ll learn exactly how to do that on your own VPS Hosting account. But any Read More >
HTTP Error Codes
No matter what you’re doing on the web, if you’ve got two computers talking to each other, there’s going to be some messages that get garbled in the process. This is where having a knowledge (or, at least, a list) of HTTP error codes can be your guiding light. For developers and sysadmins, our cloud Read More >
502 Bad Gateway
Most often, you might see a “502 bad gateway” error in one of our WordPress hosting plans, because these plans use Apache web servers with Nginx as a proxy server. Read on to find out how proxy servers work. How to Fix the 502 Bad Gateway Error Refresh Your Page Clear Your Browser Cache Checking Read More >
Complete SSH Security and SFTP Guide For Ubuntu Cloud Server
When first purchasing an InMotion Hosting Cloud VPS system, you have a dedicated IP address and built-in SSH security. This means that as soon as your server has been provisioned you can immediately log in and start working. In this article, you will learn about the default SSH configuration and how you can optionally harden Read More >
How To Write Error Log to File
Knowing how to write error log to files is an important troubleshooting step you can take to debug your system. Kinds of Error Logs How To Write Error Log To File For example, if you contact InMotion Hosting support about an issue happening on your server, the support technicians will check error logs to see Read More >
Literate Programming and WordPress
WordPress is all about user customization. It provides the groundwork for managing your content, and the rest of the creativity is up to you. Not only is WordPress expressive with regard to style but also in how you choose to develop and manage your customization. In this article, you’ll learn about how to apply literate Read More >
Git Fundamentals Complete Beginner Guide
This article will introduce the uninitiated beginner to all the immediate Git fundamentals needed to start work right away. This is a crash course in Git for beginners. Git Fundamentals and Options (Why Learn Git?) Git is (arguably) the world’s most popular version control system. It is actively developed and supported by a large community Read More >
How To Create Dotfiles With Emacs
If you have multiple configuration files in different places, they can grow to a point of becoming unmanageable. And they’re probably full of stray bits of code you’ve pasted in from different places, and you don’t remember what some of those code snippets even do. Does this describe your situation? Multiple config files spread across Read More >
How To Use Startup Applications in Ubuntu
In many situations, it can be helpful to have your favorite apps open up on startup, as soon as your computer boots up. This can save you some time and make sure you check your most important calendars, emails, or task managers before you start your work day. Select Your Startup Applications Using a File Read More >
How to Git Stash “Apply” to Preserve Stash
For all of those completionists out there who don’t like to lose anything, the thought of any kind of data loss—no matter how minor—is a threat. As you may already know, Git lets you stash (set aside) changes to your files without requiring you to commit. In this article, we’ll show you how to pop Read More >
