https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ The Duplicator gives WordPress administrators the ability to migrate, copy or clone a site from one location to another. The plugin also serves as a simple backup utility. The Duplicator supports both serialized and base64 serialized string replacement. If you need to move WordPress or backup WordPress this plugin can help simplify the process.… Read More »
Installing WordFence #1 #2 gives you protection and great visibility into whats going on. It’s easy to think no problems = no attacks, but after installing WordFence it was immediately obvious how much attach my little old website was under – and not because it’s a popular site (far from it – I’m pretty sure I’m… Read More »
Use WP-CLI (http://wp-cli.org/) Su to a non-privileged user # su -m www # wp core version 4.2.2 # wp core verify-checksums Success: WordPress install verifies against checksums. # wp core check-update Success: WordPress is at the latest version. # wp core update Plugsin # wp plugin status 4 installed plugins: UI akismet 3.1.1 A force-login-except-special-ip-range… Read More »
Original script at https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-find-outdated-wordpress-versions-on-your-server-to-reduce-the-risk-of-being-hacked This script has been improved to automatically detect latest WordPress version by sending a HTTP HEAD request to http://wordpress.org/latest and parsing the Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=wordpress-A.B.C.tar.gz result as suggested at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-check-latest-wp-release <?php /** * find outdated wordpress versions * (c) 2014 howtoforge.com (M. Cramer) <m.cramer@pixcept.de> * Appended by Steve Scotter www.stephen-scotter.net */ if(!isset($argv[1])) die(“Please start this program with… Read More »
// You may need to update the table names if a WordPress table prefix has been set. INSERT INTO wp_users (`user_login`, `user_pass`, `user_nicename`, `user_email`, `user_url`, `user_registered`, `user_activation_key`, `user_status`, `display_name`) VALUES (‘spectrum’, MD5(‘some-password’), ‘Spectrum Computer Solutions’, ‘wordpress@spectrumcs.net’, ‘http://www.spectrumcs.net’, NOW(), ”, ‘0’, ‘Spectrum Computer Solutions’); SET @USER_ID = LAST_INSERT_ID(); INSERT INTO wp_usermeta (`umeta_id`, `user_id`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`) VALUES… Read More »
If you see random ’ characters or similar on your WordPress site its likely to be an encoding mismatch between your WordPress installation and your MySQL database server. I did the following to fix mine, your mileage may vary. 1. Confirm wp-config.php has the encoding set as UTF8.. /** Database Charset to use in creating database… Read More »
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<?php $meta_values = get_post_meta(get_the_ID()); $original_urls = ”; foreach ($meta_values[‘original_url’] as $url) { $original_urls .= “Original URL : <a href=\”$url\”>$url</a><br />”; } ?> <?php print “<small>$original_urls</small><br />”; ?>
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<VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot “/blah/blah/blah” ServerName www.blahblahblah.net ServerAlias blahblahblah.net ServerAdmin webmaster@blahblahblah.net CustomLog logs/access/www.blahblahblah.net.log combined ErrorLog logs/error/www.blahblahblah.net.log # if upload_max_filesize and post_max_size are NOT the same WordPress # will set the maximum upload limit to the lower of the two values. # This was the case with WordPress 3.1 on 21st March 2011 php_value upload_max_filesize 25M php_value … Read More »
To update WordPress options with the new blog location, use the following SQL command: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’, ‘http://www.new-domain.com’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’; After that you will need to fix URLs of the WordPress posts and pages, which translated from post slug, and stored in database wp_posts table… Read More »