Tom Milliken

I have been providing tech support as an independent contractor in San Diego County for over 20 years, building, installing and configuring servers and desktop systems. In addition, I have been providing web design and maintenance services as well as providing other web related services like mail migration and cloud based services. I enjoy web design and feel it is a natural extension to the other services I offer. Web design is truly the printing press of this century, giving voice to all who wish.

Creating a WordPress Child Theme

by Tom Milliken

A couple of good reasons to create a WordPress child theme for your WordPress site are if you update the theme, all customizations like CSS and custom functions will likely be lost because these files will be overwritten. The other reason is that development is usually faster because you don’t have to search through a …

WordPress Development Workflow in 6 Easy Steps

by Tom Milliken

I am an independent developer and creating a simple WordPress development workflow has been a challenging topic for me. What I needed was a way to develop a new site locally and easily move it to a the production server when it was ready to publish. I also needed a way to test the site …

Editing The Hosts File For Local Web Development

by Tom Milliken

When I start working on a new site for a client, I like to setup a local subdomain based on the client’s domain like dev.yourdomain.com. Make sure you add this domain to the Settings > General page in WordPress. To do this, you will need to edit the hosts file. Here are some basic directions: …