Category: Automation
09/14/2022
How to develop your own WordPress CRON job properly and ensure it actually runs
Hello! In this post we will be walking through how to interact with the WordPress Cron system. We will delve into how to establish your scheduled jobs properly using the built-in WordPress cron system, with no other external interactions such as the OS cronjob system. This will be useful for WordPress plugin developers as in […]
03/16/2022
How to make Woocommerce more enterprise friendly
Hello! After Working with WordPress and Woocommerce for a while, watching it grow and evolve over time, there are some constraints that we have been encountered over the years in particular with larger enterprise projects. WordPress appeals to a massive audience (43% market share to be exact). In this massive appeal, the WordPress development community […]
12/04/2020
How to import your Zoom Webinars into WordPress as custom content
Hello! Now, more than ever, companies businesses and individuals are leveraging web based collaborative tools like Zoom. Whether it be for company meetings, training sessions or sales seminars, the idea is to use video conferencing technology to replace in-person interactions. Zoom has emerged as a leading player, being positioned favourably at the right point in […]
09/28/2020
How to scale your WordPress site for enterprise level redundancy
Hello! It often becomes a requirement for certain levels of clients to ensure service level agreements for uptime and redundancy are kept. What does this mean? Well we want to ensure that a particular site can withstand a single point of failure, which usually means we would need to expand the services across multiple endpoints. […]
09/09/2020
How to bulk update all WordPress pages or posts
Hello! Sometimes its necessary to perform mass or automated actions against your WordPress content. Reasons for this can vary, but in our scenario there was a bug in a plugin relating to translated content via WPML where afte a fix / plugin update was applied, resolving the content errors was as simple as re-saving an […]
03/10/2020
How to sanitize and reset all WordPress user accounts with linux shell scripting and wp-cli
Hello! There are several key best practices insofar as how to deal with security intrusions, including but not limited to restoring from backups on a clean server. In this article, I will be going over how to create an automated shell script that completes the following actions across multiple WordPress sites on your linux server […]
05/23/2019
How we created our own free content delivery network for WordPress users
Try out our Free CDN service by installing the Shift8 CDN WordPress pluginHello! We thought it would be an interesting challenge both from a DevOPS perspective as well as a web development and integration perspective to create our own fully managed content delivery network. Utilization of the network is geared specifically for WordPress users. The […]
09/13/2018
How to protect WordPress media files and only allow the users who uploaded them to view
Hello! In the past we have written about how to protect your WordPress media files. In the past exercises we utilized a strategy to set a session cookie with encrypted details that can be read and validated at the http service (i.e. nginx) as well as application (php/wordpress) level. Since then we have refined this […]
06/27/2018
How to implement a government ID verification system with Woocommerce and WordPress
Need this implemented on your site? Click here and fill out our quote form! Hello! There are many reasons why your Woocommerce store may need a system to accommodate verifying the identity of your customers. Depending on what your selling and the local or federal laws that are in place, having the identity […]
05/08/2018
How to make bulk changes to WordPress Woocommerce product attributes with PHP
Hello! Sometimes its necessary to make site-wide changes to WordPress posts in order to save time and programmatically propagate changes without having to edit each post one at a time. For bulk manipulation of WordPress data, it is sometimes effective to write a command line PHP script to hook into your WordPress environment and execute […]
