About Leads Everything revolves around leads. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. As WordPress developers, though, we avoid this one, as it doesn’t use custom post types but rather defines its own tables and has an interface for additional fields within it’s settings. Again, none of these are bad things, but we want to […]
Author Archives: Vladimir Vassilev
Zero BS CRM or how to go fishing for customers
Nah, this CRM doesn’t help much with fishing for customers – it’s way too simple. Actually, most of the features are easily achievable with any custom fields & custom post types plugin out there. Toolset Types could do the trick. Don’t get me wrong – this one doesn’t do anything bad, and it has some […]
Redirecting all pages from the old domain to the new one
When you switch domains for a WordPress installation, you should think of not only the how to move the site, but how to keep your content reachable by search engine hits or referrals. 301 Redirect is what is expected of you, and the easy way to do it, even if both domains are still hitting […]
jCatalog plugin review
I don’t usually do this kind of reviews, but this one deserves it. Here we go: Upon download, you are getting 30 Megabytes (!!!) of 6323 (!!!) files just in the plugins/jcatalog folder. WordPress alone is 18.3 Megabytes and 1216 files. The plugin checks if you are using WordPress or Joomla. So it could work […]
How to replace your WordPress site with your newly developed one using Duplicator plugin
Staging site is the one that you’ve been developing as a redesign of the live site, that has been active till now. Install Duplicator plugin on your staging site and run a full backup generation with it. Ignore warnings on the scan step, in most cases they are related to big files, big overall size of the […]
Bad session handling can lead to performance issues
The reason is shortly explained in the PHP documentation for session_start() function here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php#110649 Furthermore, you can read about it in the session_write_close() function reference page. How we found this? We had slow loading of some admin pages (Plugins, All Pages) in WordPress and every time P3 Profiler was pointing to a different plugin, but […]
Limiting access to (some) files in uploads dir
All you need to do is add a .htaccess file with the following content in your uploads dir:
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<FilesMatch ".(xlsx|xls|docx|doc|rtf|odf|pdf)$"> Order Allow,Deny Deny from All </FilesMatch> |
If you want to limit just any file from being accessed from anyone, just use “./*” instead of the regular expression.
Monitoring slow queries in MySQL
If you are in doubt that some really slow queries are taking place on your server and they put you on too much load, then use this change in the configuration file to enable logging of slow queries: The config files usually is /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Uncomment these: slow-query-log = 1 slow-query-log-file = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log long_query_time = 1 […]
HTTP error on video files upload
Error happens after the whole file is uploaded (we lifted the post-size and file upload limits). Solution that helped me: nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/fcgid.conf add this: FcgidMaxRequestLen 1073741824 or edit MaxRequestLen to a higher value. Then restart: service apache2 restart
Using git via console
# Basic commands to get you started in using Git via console # Дълъг документ, който да ви накара да оцените какво GitHub for Windows прави за вас 😉 Commands to navigate in the console pwd print working directory cd change directory. Използвайте кавички ако в името има интервал cd Users cd “Program files” mkdir […]