Wil Brown

WordPress Consultant & Educator

Wil lives in Sydney, Australia. He co-organises the WordPress Sydney meetup group and has been on the organising committee for WordCamp Sydney since 2014. He speaks at many events and contributes to the WordPress open-source project. His likes are chillies, craft beer and electrogravitics.

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Drop-Ins and Must-Use WordPress Plugins

Drop-ins allow you to replace some of the core WordPress functionality and Must Use plugins are always active and can’t be uninstalled from the dashboard. Let’s find out more.

A MailChimp Opt-in Field for Contact Form 7

MailChimp is one bad-ass email marketing and email list management tool. Contact form 7 is also one of the most popular free contact forms for WordPress.

Wouldn’t it be nice if they worked together?

With a bit of PHP magic, here’s how to create a MailChimp opt-in field for Contact Form 7 which automatically adds an email address to a MailChimp list.

Changing the cPanel Default Website Page on a VPS

When setting up a new VPS you are likely going to want to make changes to the default set up.

That will likely mean changing the default website page from defaultwebpage.cgi to your own page.

Here’s a quick guide to help you on your way.

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