We have various scripts on a server that process files that are uploaded to a specific directory so we needed a way to monitor these directories and verify that all files are being processed. Once they are processed on our server they are moved to different directory so the file count should never get over…
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Working on a project for a client a couple days ago I needed a good way to display WordPress blogroll links on various pages and posts. The plugin would hopefully provide a method to sometimes display all blogroll links and other times display only blogroll links of a specific category. Below I discuss the plugin…
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In the process of creating a mirror image of a current WordPress to be used for development purposes I ran into a PHP error that I had not seen before. The current version of WordPress was working without issue but because many of the settings needed to be modified for the installation to work with…
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Nagios is an awesome open source application that provides a way to monitor pretty much anything that you can think of on your network. There are tons of plugins written for Nagios that will monitor anything from PostgreSQL database size to the number of users logged into a server. Today I needed to start monitoring…
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When attempting to stop or restart Nagios on CentOS I was receiving the below error. This has been an issue for me for quite some time however I was to lazy to even put a patch in place and always just would kill the Nagios processes by hand. Tonight I was modifying some Nagios configuration…
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I made a lot of modifications to the QD site this weekend which means I also ran into a lot issues. There are so many working pieces (plugins, theme, etc.) that it seems almost impossible these days to just install something new without there being a fairly major issue. Well this weekend I was lucky…
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Earlier I set up a development WordPress site that mirrored a live WordPress installation. To do this I dumped the entire WordPress database using mysqldump and then imported it into a new database with mysql. Among other things that needed to be changed I needed to update any links that referenced the live site’s URL…
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I was creating a mirror copy of one of my WordPress installations recently and needed a way to disable all plugins. During the process of creating the development WordPress mirror there were issues so I needed to disable all WordPress plugins via MySQL since at the time I could not login to the WordPress admin.…
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After a recent issue I ran across I decided I needed a way I could view a list of WordPress posts with the most comments so I searched for a simple plugin that would do that. I couldn’t find anything that did specifically what I wanted to though I did find a WordPress plugin called…
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