This is a post written for the iWeb blog. I’m told if you can get past the spammy first paragraph (which, believe it or not, I wrote voluntarily) there’s some good stuff in there… The post aims to give the reader a brief overview of corporate social media marketing with an example of both good and […]
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February 3, 2014 — 0
Moving WordPress with a safe search and replace tool
This is a post I wrote for the iWeb blog looking at interconnect/it’s safe search and replace tool. A handy script used while moving WordPress from one location to another. The script performs a find and replace on the database without breaking the integrity of serialised data. WordPress generates and stores absolute URLs in it’s […]
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Exclude your plugin from update checks in WordPress 3.7
In order to keep your plugins up-to-date, WordPress sends information about all it’s plugins (including any inactive ones) to WordPress.org. There are concerns around the information sent as it includes details on each plugin’s developer including name and website address. While not much of a privacy issue for public plugins, there are implications for plugins […]
Read MoreOctober 30, 2013 — 0
Change WordPress auto update email address
This is a post written for the iWeb blog while playing with WordPress 3.7 automatic updates. The default WordPress behaviour following an attempted update is to send an email notification to the admin email address set under Settings → General. We wrote a small plugin ideal for those who manage WordPress on their client’s behalf. The plugin […]
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Solve WordPress 3.7 Background Updates “This site is not able to apply these updates automatically.”
This is a post written for the iWeb blog while we were playing with WordPress 3.7 automatic updates. We wrote a plugin which overrides the check WordPress makes to determine whether a site is running under version control. We gitignore WordPress and only version our own themes and plugins. The plugin allows WordPress to automatically […]
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