These tutorials will explain how to leverage a variety of free services to host a Wordpress website for free. It will also show oyu how to install Wordpress using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP stack). Services explores will include Heroku, Github Pages, and Cloudflare.
Intro In this article, we will deploy our WordPress website onto Heroku, a web application hosting service. We are using Heroku because it has a free plan, but it does come with a couple of drawbacks. We will also go over the limitations of this in this article. Heroku Let’s …
Intro This article will walk through how to set up our Git repository to store our code. The repository will be used by Heroku for live deployment on a free hosting environment. We will also go over environment variables and how they are important to consider when using third party …
Intro In this article, we go over some useful plugins that will help with your WordPress development. We will also go over some configuration changes to help resolve some common issues we might encounter later on. Plugins WP2Static – We will be converting our website to a static website for …
Intro In this article, we will install WordPress as fast as we can. We will be using the LAMP environment we just setup in the previous article. This is on Ubuntu 18.04 and the WordPress version we are using will be 5.0.2. If have not set this up yet, feel …
Intro In this article, we will begin with installing the LAMP stack on a Ubuntu 18.04 server. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Linux is the operating system, Apache is the web server for the application, MySQL is the database, and PHP is the programming language. To follow …
