I have recently been having a few issues with bots and malicious attacks trying to breach WordPress websites via brute force attacks. From my experience 90% of the websites, I have built or worked on never utilise the xmlrpc service, which is included with WordPress, due to this I decided to simply block any access
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Came across the need to perform maintenance on a MySQL database which holds millions of records, we needed to remove all data which was 2+ years old which involved deleting around 530 million records from a very large table, hitting nearly 200GB.
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A client was having issues sending emails and receiving a number of alerts regarding delayed emails. After looking investigating a number of outbound emails where queued with a failure reason of
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A client recently asked me to add a filter to the WooCommerce admin products list so they can filter items based on if the item had an image or not. This allowed them to easily find products which had missing images so they could correct.
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Recently been contacted by a user who needed the ability to delay the WooCommerce webhooks by x time, this would allow other processes happening on the site to finish instead of firing the webhook straight away, for example waiting for the payment process to finalise. Delaying webhooks is not common practice, however some time special
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Having problems keeping your server time in sync? or a project requiring accurate timing? If your using a Amazon EC2 instance you can swap to using Chrony and Amazon Time Sync using the below commands.
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Updating a product via the WooCommerce API would fire an update webhook, causing a loop of webhook and API activity which never ended. Created a script which keeps stock levels synced between WooCommerce and a stock management system, WooCommerce WebHooks are used to set products stock levels in near real time.
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I’ve recently been working on a project which synced data between WooCommerce and an internal warehouse system, I was utilising the WooCommerce webhooks to achieve near real time syncing between the two systems, without having the creating API scripts to poll for data on a regular basis. The Problem? There was a delay ranging from
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Flexbox is a great new tool we can fit into the web development toolkit, with Bootstrap 4 and other frameworks moving across to flexbox, it is becoming more important to start learning it.
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Lately I have been working on a full screen office dashboard project which is going to be shown on various 50″ screens throughout an office space, wanted to add some basic information such as weather! Came across this cool CSS3 written animated weather icons.
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