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Tag: WordPress

  • Changing the Domain Name on WordPress Multi-site

    I created a WordPress site for a client who needed to support both English and Español versions of their content, which involved using a plugin called MultilingualPress that creates relationships between sites for each language. I developed the site locally on my server, and then after they created some content, migrated it to their hosting…

  • Hacking a Theme

    Hacking a Theme

    I was setting up a temporary WordPress site for a client as a placeholder for their business. All they wanted was their logo, a link to an existing product page, and a message about the site being under construction. Since they were going to have some design ready shortly, I set them up with a…

  • Using TDD (Test Driven Development)

    If you read my previous post (WordPress Recovery), you know I’ve been writing some code to recover my old posts. It occurred to me I could take a small segment of what I’ve been doing with that code to demonstrate my approach to TDD. Since I’m a hacker from way back, and also because I…

  • WordPress Recovery

    Well, I have the basics of my blog recovered now, so almost all of my posts going back several years are once again available. In my last post titled Lesson Re-learned: Backups !, I admitted that I had committed the cardinal sin of making changes to my web site without doing a backup first (walking…

  • Lesson Re-learned: Backups !

    I just shot my blog in the foot, or more accurately, I didn’t follow IT 101 and back things up before making a change. I had moved my site to be completely WordPress based a while ago, and as a result I had a bit of a convoluted setup on my server. When I first…

  • Eventbrite Calendar Feed

    I volunteer and provide technical support for a few non-profits, one of which is the Project Management Institute San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (http://www.pmi-sfbac.org) where I serve as the VP of Operations and CGO. One of the moves I made in my first year with them was to migrate our event calendar to Eventbrite and…

  • Changing a Web Site to use hosted WordPress

    I got an email from my friend Athens who had just relaunched her web site at http://www.athenskconsulting.com/ but was now having problems with email. The first thing I did was to run over to the MX Toolbox site to see what was going on with her servers. A quick look and saw that her mail…

  • Continuous Integration: Missing mcrypt

    I’m doing some work on a project that is using PHP, and have been working on setting up some continuous integration build scripts to make sure that we have a shot at catching errors before they make their way to production. Recently some unit tests were added for the “forgot password” code, which uses the…