Check and Change PHP Version in Azure WordPress on Linux
I’ve been testing setting up WordPress on Linux as an Azure Web App. Checking and setting the PHP version has been quite a challenge. Here’s how I finally got it …
Generating PDF Thumbnails with Bitnami WordPress
I’m running Bitnami’s WordPress on a Microsoft Azure Ubuntu machine. It seems the default setup does not support the WordPress 4.7 feature to automatically generate PDF thumbnails on upload.
Get WordPress to Sort by Date Only without Title
This is my 560th post since I started blogging in June 2007, Sometimes those old posts have useful information, but I want search results to show the newest posts first. …
WordPress Update Shrunk SQL DB
I do a daily backup of my WordPress SQL database and was concerned when, after a recent auto-update to WordPress 4.7.5, the size of my SQL backup file shrank from …
Re-Install WordPress
Let’s say you have a test install of WordPress 4.7.4 and you accidentally delete the database. Let’s say you have created an empty test database. Let’s say all your WordPress …
WordPress Notify Author on Comment
By default, WordPress does not notify the post author when they comment on their own post. They also don’t get notified after approving someone else’s comment on their post.
Configure WordPress on OpenShift without Git: Part 2
In the Part 1 of this article, I explained how to set up an “empty” PHP app on OpenShift and how to connect to it using Putty, WinSCP, and FileZilla. …
Configure WordPress on OpenShift without Git: Part 1
I wanted to move a WordPress site from a shared host to a OpenShift, the PaaS offering from RedHat. This should be a faster setup since the OpenShift gears will …
Increasing the WP-Mail-SMTP Timeout
WP-Mail-SMTP is a popular WordPress plugin that lets you configure your site to send email through an external SMTP host rather than directly from WordPress. It does this by sending …
Web Site Grader Rates Your Web Site
A colleague referred me to this cool tool for rating web sites: www.websitegrader.com. The tool evaluates your site on the basis of of several criteria: blog, links, metadata, domain age, …