What Would Hop Do

  1. How (and Why) We Use AI in Web Design and Web Development

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    Why yes, we did use AI to make this image.

    Created with AI assistance from DALL•E

    Tracing back to the web’s infancy, we’ve witnessed a continuous emergence of technologies that have shaped and expanded the online world.  From the simplicity of early HTML to CSS to the iPhone to social media, Hop Studios has experimented with them all, adopted beneficial advancements, and…

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  2. Does a PHP version requirement mean you have to update your EE or Craft content management system?

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    Photo by Patricia Jekki on Unsplash

    (updated Jan 19, 2022; updated Dec 18, 2023)

    Here’s the situation: The version of PHP installed on your server is about to sunset*, and you’re panicking. You already know that you can upgrade your PHP version by flipping a toggle or sending an email to support, but what effect will…

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  3. WWHD - Common Problems with Updating Add-ons from EE2 to EE3

    Welcome to another edition of What Would Hop Do!

    Here at Hop we have spent a fair amount of time getting old add-ons working with new sites. And while many of you have upgraded to EE5, there are still a surprising number of sites still running on older versions of EE, often because of a…

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  4. What Would Hop Do - SSH Tunneling

    Sometimes a security-conscious client is unable to give us direct access to their production server and instead we need to connect through an intermediary gateway server. It’s a reasonable request, but it can be a bit annoying when it comes to debugging - especially during the initial…

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