Instant Web Tools and Random Walk on WordPress Development
I had small-default swap memory which i wanted to increase.
But it was a running machine, so i needed to do it painless, without stopping the machine.
I did the following steps which i am sharing here now:
First, check the current swap situation on your system by running:
Continue reading “Creating Additional Swap Disk in your running Linux/Ubuntu server”
If you want to access your Linux server using SFTP and a root user, by default it can be disabled. Due to security reasons most server-providers disable that by default.
So, you can enable it yourself. But as it is not secure, you need to add some restrictions.
Such as, adding this feature only for your own static IP.
So let’s do that. Open your server’s sshd_config file by using this command.
nano /etc/ssh/sshd_configUnder the line Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server you can paste 3 new lines.
Here is how it should look like:
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
Match Address 111.111.111.111
PasswordAuthentication yes
PermitRootLogin yes
Replace 11.111.111.111 with your own static IP address.
Then save and restart SSH by using
service ssh restartThat’s all. Now you can access to your server via SFTP, as a root user if you are connected to internet with your own static IP.
All other users will not be able to connect of course.
If you change your website name, or you have to change some strings in existing imagedata of your website, we need to do the following steps:
Step 1: Fetch all attachments
Step 2: Rename all corresponding uploaded files
Step 3: update attachment data so that new files would be recognized by WP
Step 4: Update title, description data as well.
Here is a snippet which implements all 4 steps above.
Continue reading “Rename existing WordPress Attachments files, titles”
Few weeks ago in one of the servers we faces strange issue: The website couldn’t send emails using remote SMTP.
First i thought it was related to SMTP port, credentials etc. – but everything was OK there. So then i tries to ping google.com and got surprised. It wasn’t worked. Simple ping didn’t work.
So it was obviously corrupted DNS issue.
First i tried the easier way, which is recommended by developers.google.com, adding Google DNS IP addresses to resolv.conf file
sudo vi /etc/resolv.confBut it didn’t help.
So i decided to go into deeper and solving it using netplan.
Continue reading “How to use Google DNS in Ubuntu/Debian permanently”
In some mobile browsers PDF links might not work properly.
Instead of downloading, its tab just disappears immediately after opening. And we get no downloaded PDF.
Auto-close, auto-disappear – whatever you call that – but the problem exists.
So for WordPress websites, here is how to skip this pdf-download block for mobile browsers.
We will use pseudo-page link in order to bypass that block.
I mean, instead of direct links to PDF, we will use pseudo-pdf link which doesn’t look like PDF, but actually returns PDF header and body.
Let’s say that we have a PDF ile in “wp-content/uploads/2022.pdf”.
Continue reading “How to create downloadable PDF link that works in all mobile browsers – Chrome, Safari etc.”
Assume that we are using Fully cached static pages by any cache plugin. But we need to server some fresh content inside some block of the page.
To understand it easier let’s consider that we have fully cached homepage where there is a block about the number of your customers.
Something like this
Continue reading “Creating dynamic partial content in Cached WordPress Pages using Rest API”
Assume we have some plugin called AAA and it has built-in shortcode aaa_content and its usage is like this:
[AAA_content title=”Recent news” id=”23″]
Now we want to change its output HTML.
In WordPress, the output of any 3rd party function can be changed only if it has apply_filters() filtered output. Unfortunately not all functions and shortcodes have such filter in output. So it is almost impossible to modify its output without editing the plugin’s source file.
And as we know, editing the plugin file is always bad idea. The changes will be erased just in the next update.
So we have some different approach for such cases.
For example, here is one idea, which is subject of this blog post.
Creating parent shortcode which handles the output of the original shortcode.
So let’s declare and build that alternative shortcode.
Continue reading “How to modify the output of any WordPress shortcode”
In single-app, micro-service development almost all functions belong to you or to your team, so no need to know who defined the given function – you probably know it already.
But in CMS development some you may want to find the file where the given function is defined.
It might be WP core, template functions, theme or any of active plugins.
To find it you can use built-in PHP class called “ReflectionFunction”.
For example create such simple hook.
Continue reading “Find the file where the given function is defined”