Author: Mark Onofrio

  • Security Procedures on WordPress – Choosing a Host

    Security Procedures on WordPress – Choosing a Host

    With WordPress Security, Are you doing enough? The web is constantly adapting to new technologies and the methods for delivering data to users have changed in the past couple of years and for good reasons. If you are hosting your own WordPress site or are just getting started in wanting to know more about locking…

  • Moving Out of WP Engine

    Moving Out of WP Engine

    A recent project was to migrate a couple of WordPress sites that were hosted on WP Engine to a Rackspace server stack.  Once getting the WordPress installation setup on the server, I noticed that the “WP Engine” menu option was still on the dashboard.   I first looked through the “wp-config.php” file to see if there…

  • The True Morel Hunt

    When winter is finally over and it is coming to the end of April in New York.  The old saying goes “April showers bring May Flowers” is true, but it also brings out something else that is really special.   This is when the mystique mushroom called the Morel starts to grow, camouflaging its self with…

  • Cortlandt Manor Fall Forage – 2018

    For the first time, this September the heat broke and the cool fall breeze swept through the woods. Mushroom foragers like to explore untouched land, so my first choice was this abandoned Boy Scout camp I used to explore as a child.  The first mushroom that caught my eye are called the common hedgehog fungus…

  • Cortlandt Manor Fall Forage

    For the first time, this September the heat broke and the cool fall breeze swept through the woods. Mushroom foragers like to explore untouched land, so my first choice was this abandoned Boy Scout camp I used to explore as a child.  The first mushroom that caught my eye are called the common hedgehog fungus…

  • Labor Day Mushroom Hunt

    We had a lot of rain in August and now into September this Labor Day it in the low 90ºF in northern Westchester. This has been great for mushrooms this season.  I was on the hunt for black trumpet mushrooms and didn’t find any on this trip.  I came across a lot of different mushrooms on…