In a previous post I described how to set up a local WordPress dev server with an Adminer web app to control the Mysql database. I have been using that setup for quite some time now. Despite being very lightweight, I feel Adminer is very limited. In addition, I didn’t really get used to it...
Context In a previous post, I wrote about customizing the Avada Post Cards element to fetch posts from the database based on a custom field value. It’s good to mention it once more that this feature was added to Avada later on, and it’s now shipped by default in all new versions of...
The following docker-compose.yml file setups a local WordPress docker instance alongside a MySql server and an Adminer web app which can be used as an alternative to PhpMyAdmin. version: '3.9' services: wp_mysql: image: mysql:latest container_name: wp_mysql command: mysqld --character-set...
During my master’s at the University of Twente and for the course Managing Big Data, I worked with three other students on a very interesting project in the field of big data. We measured global internet speed and latency changes between 2019 and 2022 (Covid period). The dataset we used for...
Context In the last couple of months, I have been working on the website of Stichting Civic. Stichting Civic is a Dutch foundation committed to improving the Dutch civic integration policy for refugees and other newcomers. The foundation aims at 1) collecting and stimulating socio-scientific and...
Almost five years ago, I wrote this blog post Making an installer/updater for Filezilla on Ubuntu Linux Today in this blog post, I present a fully automated bash script based on my earlier script. This script automatically pulls the latest version of FileZilla tarball from Filezilla project website...
In this article you will learn how to change the name of all MySql (WordPress) database tables in one shot to save you time and maybe money too :)
A step-by-step guide on how to setup a split-delivery to use Google-Workspace email service and your traditional mail service offered by your hosting provider
A couple of years ago I wrote this short post about checking/selecting all checkboxes on a web page using jQuery. However, how would we do that if we can’t included jQuery on the page or if we want to do it only with Javascript! To uncheck all checked checkboxes on a web page using only...
I ran yesterday into a situation where I needed WordPress to perform a specific action after a product is inserted into WooCommerce database using the REST API endpoint POST /wp-json/wc/v3/products I have searched online for a couple of hours and I found multiple solutions, but non of them worked...
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