Category: Shell scripting
08/23/2023
How to recover a hacked WordPress website
Well it happened to you. You receive an email from a customer, or perhaps your web host : Your WordPress site is displaying an “unsafe website” browser error. Or maybe it is now showing some gambling advertisements. It clearly has been compromised. What do you do now? Based on over 14 years experience hosting, managing […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
05/08/2018
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 […]
03/28/2018
#DeleteFacebook : How to poison, obfuscate and purge your facebook data before deleting your account
* Update : Thank you Vice for writing an article about my script! Unfortunately it seems as though facebook is actually blocking the ability for anyone to share the article. I wonder why? * Update 2 : Facebook is now allowing the Vice article to be shared, only after about 24 hours of blocking the […]
02/23/2018
WordPress plugin to remotely manage and automate multiple WordPress sites
Hello! Being a Toronto based web design and development agency means that we interact with a significant number of WordPress sites. This tends to happen when a project starts (obviously), but often continues after a site is launched. This is something that we offer along the lines of “post launch maintenance”. By no means once […]
02/07/2018
How to use Jenkins and Git to automate code pushes for your Laravel project
Hello! Recently we published guides how to push WordPress sites with Jenkins or how to push WordPress sites with a simple shell script. We thought it might be useful to give an overview of how to streamline your code integration process with Jenkins , GitHub and Bash shell scripting. The script I will outline below […]
12/21/2017
How to push your WordPress site with a simple bash shell script and integrate it with Jenkins
Hello! Previously we gave an overview of our new WordPress plugin to integrate your Jenkins build process within the WordPress administration area. The previous post gave an overview of how to set up Jenkins as well as how to set up the WordPress plugin. Where we stopped short is actually integrating the build script within […]
12/19/2017
WordPress plugin to integrate Jenkins to streamline your build process
Hello! We love integrating Jenkins into development workflow. Typically Jenkins would be used for custom development projects to streamline the development “push” process in order to seamlessly integrate code changes from a testing / staging environment over to the live environment. For frameworks like Laravel or Django, this works very nicely. Until recently, we haven’t […]
