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Using WP Better Emails with WooCommerce Email Templates

On one site that I run there are several different functions, primarily provided by disparate plugins with custom actions/filters, that send emails both to site administrators and customers. For most emails that are sent...

NGINX Reverse Proxy to Legacy Website

NGINX reverse proxies can be a very powerful tool for many reasons and recently came to the rescue as I was at a loss as to how to provide access to a legacy website when...

Prepare IN and NOT IN Statements in WordPress

Why should I use prepared statements? Using some type of prepared statement protects you against SQL injection attacks when you need to interact with the database using parameters passed in from the client side. Depending...

Install logtail on CentOS

The developer of logtail has not made the repository available via yum for quick installation. Even if you don’t want to access logtail from the command line, it is still used by several other scripts...

Disable WP-Cron in WordPress

What is WP-Cron? WP-Cron is the way that WordPress executes scheduled jobs that are added via wp_schedule_event() or one of its associated functions. First it’s a bit of a hack given the single threaded-ness...

Upgrade From MySQL to MariaDB on CentOS

Here is how you upgrade from MySQL 5.5+ to MariaDB 5.5, 5.6 or 10.0. After running MySQL 5.5 for a while and getting tired of not taking advantage of the features and performance enhancements,...