Category: Random thoughts

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Sometimes it is convenient to import terms or posts into a WordPress database.  When you do, you may need to create a ‘slug’ column. To do this, I’ve modified a user […]...

I posted sent this to a client asking about what the right banner image size is for a #WordPress site. Where am I off and could have improved it? [..] […]...

Sometimes you want to provide a simple way for users to enter multiple values.  Perhaps the simplest way for the user is to understand is allow them to enter new values on […]...

I use NetDrive and NotePad++ to do my WordPress Development, but I’ve customized NPP slightly along the way. I’ve added the following functions: Alt-F3 – Search the WordPress codex for […]...

I was about to rewrite some of these queries again, and decided to google instead.  I found this page with them already written: http://kb.iweb.com/entries/29801848-Verifying-CMS-versions-on-multiple-websites So this too gets stored away in […]...

Sometimes a simple Google search won’t do. Today I needed to find some malformed URLs in a site.   I couldn’t remember how to search for specific text in a […]...

Here are a couple commands you might find useful. This command finds files that are larger than half a gig: find / -type f  -size +500M -exec ls -lh {} […]...

WordPress is generally very good about working under any server situation you put it in. It even has fall back code if the preferred server settings are not available. The […]...

Let’s keep this one simple. There are two main ways to restart Spamd. The first way restarts spamd (aka spam assasin) itself: /scripts/restartsrv_spamd The next way is to restart the […]...