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WordPress LogoTips and Tricks on WordPress usage and development. I am very passionate about WordPress, but it doesn’t work just by itself – it needs a rich environment to live and breathe in.

If you’re after theme and plugin alterations, we have a category for that.

How to change your User Name in WordPress

This week has seen a rather large scale attack of a bot network that specifically targets the “admin” user in WordPress installations. This means that if your site as a user called “admin” then your site is under threat of being a potential target. No matter if you’re using “admin” as an active user or [...]

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What to do if you’ve forgotten all credentials to your WordPress site

This podcast describes how to gain access to WordPress even without username, password or working email address. It’s happened to the best of us: you forgot your Password you forgot what User you are even worse, you’ve forgotten which email you’ve used when you installed WordPress worse still, your email no longer exists Fear not, [...]

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How to bulk delete posts in WordPress with MySQL

Usually deleting several posts at once is not a problem thanks to the bulk delete options in WordPress. Those queries however rely on a single delete each, initiated by PHP loop. That’s fine if you’re deleting up to about 100 posts at a time. But it’s not when you have thousands of posts to delete. [...]

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How to move very large MySQL Databases

I’ve been shifting some things around and came across several very large WordPress databases for a few projects I was hosting. The largest was 1.3GB or 317MB compressed (!) which obviously poses a problem. Most sites – even those of frequent bloggers – amount to well under 2MB when compressed, but Multi Site or BuddyPress [...]

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How to fix “broken image captions” in WordPress 3.4

We’ve been discussing an issue with broken captions at the WordPress forum over the last few days. It appears that due to a code change in the WordPress core, captions are now inserted in a different way. This is to allow for HTML in captions which was not possible beforehand. Turns out that many themes [...]

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How to bring back Post Categories in P2

We’re all excited about the new features in Automattic’s P2 Theme v1.4.0 – however many of us have setup custom tweaks around Post Categories. In the latest version these have been replaced with Post Formats. Post Formats are great, but they are limited to values defined in the WordPress core. If you wanted to create [...]

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P2 Theme gets an upgrade: say hello to Custom Menus and To-Do List Support

Today P2 Version 1.4.0 has been released – hurra! Thanks for everyone’s hard work on this amazing theme. P2 now boasts a couple of extra options and plenty of changes under the hood, but like many other great features those are not immediately obvious. Let me show you how the new changes work and how [...]

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How to tweak P2: adding and replacing categories

Today I’m going to tweak the marvellous P2 Theme by Automattic. P2 is one of my all time favourite themes – not only because it transforms WordPress into something completely different, but also because it’s an innovative way we communicate internally here at WP Hosting. If you don’t know P2 yet, do check it out [...]

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FIXED: The Problem with running PHP as FastCGI Application (WordPress and Plesk)

We’re currently on our way to Kissimmee, FL to join Parallels Summmit, an annual conference from the people who make Plesk. We’re also taking exams in Plesk 10.4.4 so we’re studying it in-depth – I’ve been using the software for over two years now but never had formal training in it. Well here goes! In [...]

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How to deploy HyperDB

Ever since I’ve started experimenting with HyperDB I thought that once I’ve got enough servers at my disposal, and if I ever figure out how to setup MySQL replication I’d bring the two together. I believe that day has finally come: HyperDB is now deployed across over 60 sites I’m taking care of. I want [...]

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Calling all Forum Beta Testers

Great News: I’ve been meaning to add a general WordPress forum to this site for a while, but none of the options seemed to work well for what I wanted to do. All I needed was a simple discussion forum, integrated into WordPress – I really didn’t want to mess around with phpBB or the [...]

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Snapshot Backup 2.0.1 Update: Let’s try this again, folks…

I’ve just released Snapshot Backup 2.0.1 – the exact same version as 2.0, however this time it includes all the files it actually needs… Let me explain what happened earlier: So there I was, having tested the latest version of Snapshot Backup 2.0 for several weeks, all is well at my end, and I decided [...]

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Disk Space Pie Chart – Version 0.4

I’ve committed a new version of Disk Space Pie Chart today. This maintenance release fixes a display bug in the Dashbaord Widget in WordPress 3.2. Thanks to Dan from IFSA Butler for bringing this to my attention. While I was at it I’ve also fixed some of the internal workings of this plugin: Fixed dashboard [...]

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Snapshot Backup 2.0 RC1 – Ready for Testing

I’ve been slaving away at the keyboard again. It’s been too long, and you’ve all been patiently waiting for your favourtive backup plugin to do something while you sleep. Say hello to Snapshot Backup 2.0 which can now create backups while you sleep. Here’s a list of new features: Automation: create backups every hour, every [...]

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