You may have heard about the recent legal dispute between Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, and WP Engine. While it’s unfortunate that these two major players in the WordPress ecosystem are at odds, we want to reassure you that your website, that if you are a client of Linchpin that is hosted hosted via WP Engine, your ability to update plugins will not be impacted by this dispute. At[…]
Aaron Ware
For nearly 20 years Aaron Ware has worked with leading brands, start-ups and everyone in between to develop innovative, highly interactive, feature-rich websites, and online apps.
Is Stripe the Right Payment Gateway for my WooCommerce Store?
There are a lot of factors that come into play when picking the right payment gateway for your WooCommerce store. Within this article, we’re going to provide some quick info to help you decide if Stripe is the right fit for your store and some caveats when using Stripe (or other gateways) within your online store.
The Move to a 100% Distributed Team at Linchpin
Let’s get the big announcement out of the way – Linchpin has fully transitioned to 100% of our team working remotely. Our HQ in Pawtucket has been packed up and as I write this post from our empty office, it’s given me a chance to have a bit of reflection and nostalgia over our process for remote work past and present, the team in general, events, moving on and this[…]
What is Elasticsearch & Why Should My Site Use It?
Think of Elasticsearch as a true search engine similar to Bing or Google however Elasticsearch is an open-source (Apache 2 license), distributed, RESTful search engine built on top of the Apache Lucene library.
Announcing linchpin.tools – A Set of Useful Tools From Linchpin
We’re happy to announce the launch of a new site in the Linchpin network of websites, linchpin.tools. This site is a set of useful tools for IP lookup, domain WHOIS, and one-time use/expiring content/secret sharing. This is primarily a set of tools for our clients to quickly share information without having to do a Google search, but feel free to utilize or provide feedback. We have noticed that the WHOIS[…]
Website Monitoring Improvements for all Linchpin Clients
We recently came across an issue with one of our clients that brought to our attention a gap in our monitoring services. What prompted this improvement While we monitor many aspects of our clients’ sites, until recently we were not actively monitoring SSL certificate validity or certificate expiration. Due to this gap in monitoring, we had an unforeseen and unfortunate incident, where a client website was unavailable in the early[…]
Fixing Magento 2 missing theme and/or not being applied to website/store
At Linchpin we work on a lot of different projects that are in varying state of development. This presents challenges when switching between branches of a project’s .git repo that may not have your theme merge into it. Additionally, this issue can come up if you move your theme directory or rename the theme directory. If you ever come across this situation with your Magento 2 theme and the theme[…]