I’ve been playing around with a lot of themes and plugs lately around here – you may have noticed.  The coolest thing I have discovered in all of this is the stuff you can’tsee.  SSH’ing into a server and downloading files directly is a breeze.  Sure it requires knowledge of bash, but it’s just a UNIX-fied version of DOS (which is, I’m not certain, more accurately, DOS is a re-imagining of UNIX).

I can grab a theme from the WordPress site directly, unzip it and test it out in less than 10 seconds! Under the old regime, I would have had to download the package, unzip it all, and then upload the files into the appropriate place. That’s two file-transfer hops versus just one, and I can unzip on the server. It really is awesome.

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