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Moving WordPress Multisite

Moving WordPress is easy. Moving WordPress Multisite is less so, but it can still be done.

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phpMyAdmin vs CMS

By ‘CMS’ I mean WordPress, Drupal, whatever. So here’s a funny. I moved my DreamHost site to a VPS, so I could learn nginx (I’m still a newb) and suddenly I couldn’t get to my phpMyAdmin anymore!...

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Making a Stand Alone SQL Account

A very simple thing you can do to make your sites more secure is to use a separate SQL user for your web apps. The post Making a Stand Alone SQL Account appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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Recovering Your Cape

How to recover a lost super admin account. Also remember, you are not Oprah. The post Recovering Your Cape appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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MySQL – my.cnf

Saving some manual labor with cron, bash scripting, and a config file. The post MySQL – my.cnf appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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Not The Bug I Expected

Adventures in debugging a database error of the sort I had never seen before! The post Not The Bug I Expected appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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Mailbag: Debugging the Dread “No Permissions”

Debugging a site where you've lost all access to anything once logged in. The post Mailbag: Debugging the Dread “No Permissions” appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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Slow Site Troubleshooting: Database Edition

So your WordPress is slow and you’ve already done the needful. You’ve checked your plugins and themes, you’ve put caching in place, you’ve checked for hacks, but it’s still slow, especially on the back...

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So Take an Upgrade, Maria!

A message to my sites. Say we won't use Oracle. Gonna start a new life. The post So Take an Upgrade, Maria! appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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Custom Columns Search: Not unique table/alias

WordPress database error: [Not unique table/alias: 'wp_postmeta'] ... Well that can't be good, can it? The post Custom Columns Search: Not unique table/alias appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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Dig Yourself Out of a Hole – Multisite Edition

Sometimes, when you're smart and savvy, you make changes that later on shoot yourself in the foot. Here's what I did, how I solved it, and how to use this as an example of why you just keep trying! The...

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WordPress: Open Comments More Selectively

If you want to enable comments on 'all' of your posts selectively, we can do that for ya! The post WordPress: Open Comments More Selectively appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech.

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