This WP plugin interfaces with an old SOAP-based API. Developing with a Docker Compose WordPress library by Chris Zarate. Steps to install SOAP extension: docker-compose exec wordpress bash (get in the guest server) php –ini (find php.ini files) cp /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini-development /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini (in this case there wasn’t one) apt-get update && apt-get install vim (to edit) … Continued
Infinite Glitch is running insanely slowly, like taking 20 seconds to load! I went back to some early git commits to see if perhaps I could track down the source of a bottleneck. Chris said it might be a corrupted drive or lack of available entropy. I had to remind myself that entropy means the … Continued
At some point I had foolishly added node_modules directory and needed to remove those files from the repo. This was a matter of: Add node_modules/ to top level repository directory .gitignore and then ran git rm -r –cached ../example.com/web/app/themes/custom-theme/node_modules Then I had a couple of other branches I wanted to add only that change to … Continued
Wanted to change wp database prefix on a couple of sites following importing data with WP Migrate DB Pro. First delete the initial tables: Then rename the imported ones Now update entries in user_options table: Lastly update entries in user_meta table:
Come across this old post. Install the WP-DBManager plugin by Lester Chan Check last time table was used: Compile a list, on the staging server, first of tables that we don’t seem to still be using: Thank you SO for one liner to remove woocommerce tables
Found a good little article on clearing up “purgable space” on OSX Drive. One drives which will unmount there is this useful command: diskutil secureErase freespace 0 / Supposedly after running this command and restarting the computer, the purgable space will have been purged. I ended up not being registered in Disc Doctor right away … Continued
To enable a third party app to use a google account’s SMPT credentials to send mail: Use these settings: Gmail SMTP server address: smtp.gmail.com Gmail SMTP username: Your Gmail address (for example, example@gmail.com) Gmail SMTP password: Your Gmail password Gmail SMTP port (TLS): 587 Gmail SMTP port (SSL): 465 Gmail SMTP TLS/SSL required: Yes May … Continued
If it doesn’t absolutely need to be stated, leave it out. A few classic images from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think.
On OSX, install with brew install librsvg. One-liner in the terminal is: find . -type f -name “*.svg” -exec bash -c ‘rsvg-convert -h 800 “$0” > “$0”.png’ {} \;
Google Webfonts Helper is great. It generates the CSS and also downloads and generates various versions of the font for you. This command line and api option, Google Font Installer is also pretty cool. You can even install it on your computer.