Upgrading WordPress 3.2.1
Last Updated on November 16, 2019 EST by Jordan So this is the journey to update WordPress 3.2.1 to 5.3 I’ve taken a copy of the site and set it up on a temporary URL and set the following within wp-config.php I’ve also had to drop the PHP version to 5.6 to be able to …
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Deploying Ubuntu 18 Guest on Ubuntu 18 Host DomU
Last Updated on November 14, 2019 EST by Jordan TLDR; Head to the bottom and you can update the shipped version of xen-tools 4.7 to 4.8 via the xen-tools GitHub repo. There’s a dpkg available under the releases tab. Currently, the only available version of Ubuntu available to deploy using xen-create-image (xen-tools 4.7-1) on Ubuntu …
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Windows 10, ZSH, Putty, Powerline Fonts and Screen
Last Updated on August 20, 2019 EDT by Jordan I recently was setting up my Windows 10 desktop machine with Putty so I could access some servers. I use the ZSH shell with OMZ and the Powerline9k theme. I use the following article to set up Putty and grab the appropriate fonts for Windows 10 …
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WP-CLI Cheat Sheet
Last Updated on August 12, 2019 EDT by Jordan WooCommerce wp wc update – Updated WooCommerce database from command line. LiteSpeed wp lscache-purge all – Purge all cache.
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WHMCS and Hexonet ISPAPI Registrar Module “Missing Required Attribute; X-CA-LEGALTYPE” Issue
Last Updated on July 22, 2019 EDT by Jordan If you’re running WHMCS and the Hexonet ISPAPI Registrar Module, you might have issues registering .ca domain names. An error will show up when you click on register, here’s a screenshot of the error. Invalid attribute value; INVALID Contact [OWNERCONTACT] (Missing required attribute; X-CA-LEGALTYPE)] This is …
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Disabling WordPress “Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue” Emails
Last Updated on July 22, 2019 EDT by Jordan Simple add the following to your wp-config.php define(‘WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER’, true);
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Gathering Postal Codes for WooCommerce
Last Updated on July 22, 2019 EDT by Jordan If you’re having issues with gathering all the postal codes for a specific area in Canada. You can use the following tool Canadian Postal Code Radius Search Map
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WordPress Speed Up Analysis 2019-06-03
Last Updated on June 4, 2019 EDT by Jordan The following was a post I made on the WordPress Speed Up FaceBook Group. I thought it was worth posting here in-case someone else might be looking for something similar. Olly Bee Excellent! First load for me was a white page without CSS being applied. Which …
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MySQL 8 and Persona 8 Tuning for WordPress
Last Updated on May 31, 2019 EDT by Jordan If you’re running MySQL 8 or Percona 8, then you’ll probably see lots of guides online that reference some out of data configuration that really only deals with functions in MySQL 5 that have been deprecated in MySQL 8 and Percona 8 Query Cache No longer …
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Improve WordPress Comments Load time when using Akismet: Adding an index to wp_comments