Sometimes your tables crash and your website is unresponsive. You don’t have access to phpMyAdmin to do a repair, because you can’t access Plesk. That sucks! When you’re out in the field and all that’s at hand is a trusty SSH connection from your mobile, here’s an alternative way to bring your WordPress Sites back … Read more
One of the big features announced with WordPress 2.9 was the ability to upgrade several plugins at once. Trouble is, it’s not an easy to find feature. Fret not, for The Guru has found it! You’d expect to go to Plugins, check the ones you want to upgrade and choose “Upgrade All” from the bulk … Read more
By default, they’re located in /var/lib/psa/dumps It’s useful to clear this directory out every once in a while, especially because Plesk doesn’t overwrite old backups. So if you ever find that you’re using 60GB of storage on your system, but are fully aware that your entire site shouln’t be bigger than 100MB, then this is … Read more
We’ll do that with the help of our friend the “cp” command and SSH access to our server. You can find a good manual for all the switches at Tux Files or ask The Die, or simply try “cp –help” at the command prompt. I use “cp” to update multiple installations of WordPress on the … Read more
WordPress is my life and my passion – I wouldn’t know what to do without it. I often recommend it, I often install it and I teach people about it.
One of the question I often get asked by beginners is “what’s the difference between WordPress.com and this self hosted thing”? Let me explain.
Indeed they’re not, they look waaaaay to big and ugly. Help is at hand by adding this code to your Cutsom CSS File in Thesis: .custom .format_text input, #commentform input, #commentform textarea { width:auto; } Instant relief.
Yes, that’s an annoying one – and it has less to do with your Theme’s CSS and more to do with teh Flash Player. Easy remidy is at hand, even though it means that you need to add code to each video. Here’s how you do it: Your videos will be embedded with both <OBJECT> … Read more
Assuming you’d like to run WordPress on your very own vanilla CentOS system, open a terminal window and do the following: yum install php-mysql mysql mysql-server /sbin/chkconfig –levels 235 mysqld on /etc/init.d/mysqld start You have to be logged on as root to do this. The next thing you probably want to do is create a … Read more
