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Fix WordPress Video Embed Stats

- fix wordpress video embed stats

WordPress makes it simple to embed videos from a wide variety of sites, but while helping a client with their landing page, I noticed something odd – the videos were not collecting viewer stats. Looking into this further, I discovered that WordPress automatically adds a “do not track” parameter to the video URL when it …

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Paddle Billing Plugin For aMember

Paddle Billing plugin for aMember

I’ve been a fan boy of Paddle as a payment system for aMember since 2021. So much so, I wrote and contributed the original Paddle (Classic) plugin to the aMember core. Why do I love Paddle so much? Quite simply because it’s a Merchant of Record (MoR) payment provider. This means they go beyond just …

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HMRC VAT Exchange Rates for aMember

HMRC exchange rates plugin for aMember

aMember makes it simple to sell digital products and subscriptions worldwide, and has a variety of tax modules to suit your home tax jurisdiction and intended audience. With many aMember sites selling internationally, it’s pretty common to see pricing in US Dollars (USD), even if the business is located outside the USA. For example, my …

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Avoiding EU VAT headaches in aMember

- block eu

aMember makes it simple to sell digital products and subscriptions worldwide, but selling to European Union countries is a major tax accounting nightmare. In fact, according to official EU Parliament data, the cost of VAT compliance for small businesses (SMEs) is about US $16,000 (EUR15,000) PER YEAR! In this blog, I’m going to highlight the rules …

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PHP-FPM Crashing on cPanel Server [Fixed]

php-fpm

A couple of years ago, I switched our cPanel servers to use the more modern FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM). Although requiring slightly more memory than other PHP FastCGI implementations, the appeal is superior performance, scalability, and security. All was great, apart from one teeny, tiny issue… PHP-FPM would periodically and randomly go 100% CPU and …

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How to resolve “Resource temporarily unavailable” error in SSH for cPanel servers

- fork bomb

As we’ve grown, I’ve started seeing some occasional strange errors when trying to SSH or push to GIT repositories on certain user accounts on our cPanel server. Then today, when switching an account to PHP8, the error locked up SSH entirely, and would only go away when I rolled back to PHP7.4 Turns out, the …

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