A client was having issues with bounce back due to customers entering incorrect email addresses, so I updated the outbound email address used by WooCommerce to “[email protected]”, this meant any bounce backs would go to a null mailbox instead of to their mains “[email protected]” mailbox. However, this meant when customers hit reply, it would reply
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WordPress only includes published pages in the parent page dropdown, I ran into an issue where both parent and child page were made private so work could be done to the pages, the child pages when edited lost their parent relationship, due to the parent page no longer appearing within the “Parent” dropdown. Why would
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Came across a problem with a SuiteCRM where the search was not working correctly, returning none or unrelated results. SuiteCRM relies on an indexing service called Lucene, which handles indexing for advanced searches, as in my case, this needs to be full reindexed to work correctly. 1. Lock Files When Lucene begins indexing it generates
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NCDU is a text-based user interface, it allows you to visually see how and where disk space is being used via an easy-to-use interface. Simple run the command in the current directory to see a directory tree of folders & files and their space usage. I use this tool mainly for analysing why a server
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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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