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How to enable WordPress to update your custom plugin hosted on GitHub

Most of my WordPress plugins are exclusive to a specific site, but every now and then I'll create a utility plugin that gets installed on multiple sites. Then, whenever I update that plugin, I have to remember which sites have it installed, and manually push that update to

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Hide specific posts from homepage in Ghost

I recently became a dad and plan to occasionally write about my experience. That said, since my blog is primarily about technology, I don't want those posts surfacing on the homepage, because they're not written for my target audience. The first step is to group all

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Include year and month in Ghost blog post permalinks

This is especially useful if you migrated your posts from WordPress to Ghost and want to keep most of your blog post URLs the same. If you go to Settings > Labs, click on Download current routes.yaml within the Beta Features > Routes section at the very bottom. Open

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Disable infinite scroll in Ghost's Casper theme

The team at Ghost added the ability to disable the infinite scroll in the latest version of the Casper theme (5.4.2). If you want to disable it, go to Settings > Site injection and paste the following code snippet into Site Header: <script> document.documentElement.classList.

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How to use PHP autoloader to require files containing namespaced classes

If you're building an object-oriented PHP application that's larger than a handful of files, it can be cumbersome to require them one by one. On top of that, you have to manually keep adding your new files. And if you have classes relying on other classes,

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apache2.service failed after Ubuntu upgrade to 22.04

After I upgraded my Ubuntu server from 20.04 to 22.04, the built-in Apache service stopped working. When I tried to start it again with: service apache2 start The following error appeared: Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status

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cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain in WordPress

Let's say you're developing locally using something like Valet or are running WordPress on an internal, corporate network. If you try to update WordPress, a plugin, or a theme and see this error message, it could mean that something (like Netskope) is injecting their own SSL

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Install and configure Xdebug on your M1 Mac to debug PHP applications with Valet and PhpStorm

Xdebug allows you to set breakpoints in your PHP application. When you run that application, the execution will stop at each breakpoint you defined, providing you with an opportunity to inspect the state of your application, including things like which variables are defined, what value they contain, and a stack

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Add custom bash autocomplete function to quickly move into code projects

I keep my projects in a Projects directory on my Mac. It's also not unusual for me to switch back and forth between projects throughout the day. To do that, I have a couple different options: 1. cd ~/Projects/dashboard 2. cd ../../dashboard Either I type a few

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Develop and run PHP applications like WordPress and Laravel on your Mac

I've determined that this stack is my preferred environment to develop and run PHP applications, like WordPress and Laravel, on my MacBook. It's less ambiguous than tools that do everything for me, so I have a bit more control and flexibility, and I'm able

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How to set up a simple contact form on your Ghost blog using Basin

I was looking for the simplest way to set up a contact form on my Ghost blog and I'm happy to report that I found one. If you're looking for a sneak peek on what we're going to build, take a look at my

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How to track video plays in Ghost with Plausible

Plausible comes with the perfect number of metrics out of the box, but if you need a little more, you can track custom goals, such as outbound clicks or file downloads, by adjusting the script embed and including those goals within your site settings. Now, for additional custom event goals,

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How to install Ghost alongside CyberPanel on Ubuntu 20.04 without Docker

If you have a Ubuntu server with CyberPanel installed, and want to install a Ghost blog on that same server, here are step by step directions on how to do that. The latest version of Ghost (5.x) encourages (and soon requires) MySQL 8. If your CyberPanel server has MariaDB

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How to set an animated background in Microsoft Teams without third-party software

When you try to add a new background to Microsoft Teams, the tooltip reminds you that it will only accept file types jpeg, jpg, png and bmp. Sure enough, when you browse for a new background, anything other than image file types are grayed out and can't be

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Outriders: Vendor Locations and Inventory

Below is a list of all the merchants per town, and a screenshot of the inventory to give you a sense of what they typically sell. Jump to a town: * Rift Town * Trench Town * Forest Enclave * Your Convoy Rift Town Eva Lopez Eva usually has: * Regular Weapons * On Sale Weapons

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Outriders: How to get Coup de Grace Deliverer accolade with Trickster

Kill an enemy afflicted with at least 4 different status effects. We’re going to use a combination of status effects from weapons, skills, and mods on gear that add effects to skills. You don’t have to use the exact same status effects, but here’s one possible path

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Can’t install WordPress with LSCache on CyberPanel

It said it was successful, but the generic CyberPanel page still displayed when visiting the site. Upon further investigation, the issue appeared to be with this command: root@server:~# wp core download --allow-root --path=/home/example.com/public_html/ Downloading WordPress 5.5 (en_US)... md5 hash verified: 983821e81b5b8398469e5c1807c4abf4 PHP

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Enable auto index on website hosted on Ubuntu with CyberPanel and OpenLiteSpeed

I have a server at DigitalOcean with Ubuntu, CyberPanel, and OpenLiteSpeed, and wanted one of my websites to display an auto index of all the files uploaded to it. There is a default.php script in /usr/local/lsws/share/autoindex that simulates Apache’s auto index, which suffices for

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Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘127.0.0.1’ (61) on Mac

I downloaded the MySQL server and installed it on my Mac, but every time I tried to connect to it, I got the following error: Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘127.0.0.1’ (61) There can be many reasons for this error, most of which are generously

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Use Apache instead of built-in Nginx in GitLab CE

I installed GitLab CE using the Omnibus package on a new CentOS 6 server. Since I had nothing else on the server at that time, everything GitLab setup and configured was sufficient. Later, however, I wanted to setup additional sites on the server using Apache, but now port 80 was

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Volume grayed out in Finder on Mac

Every now and then I’ll be connected to a server on my Mac with a very specific volume mounted, but then it doesn’t appear anywhere in Finder. When I try to reconnect to it, it’s grayed out, as if I was connected after all. For a while,

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Set up Mailtrap with WordPress

Mailtrap is a service that captures all mail sent by your site and prevents it from arriving at the intended recipient. It’s really useful for testing and debugging mail without having to write manual checks to ensure your users don’t get spammed with tests. Setting up Mailtrap with

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Destiny: Best Bladedancer Layout for PvE and PvP

Having played more than a 200 hours in over 700 games, most of which as a Bladedancer, split evenly across PvE and PvP, I found a layout that I tend to fall back on for each type. Besides just listing what I chose, I’ll also describe the reasons behind

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Destiny: Map of Earth, Moon, Venus and Mars

Here is an image of all the Destiny maps, including story, strike, patrol and raid details. Some of them include a video walkthrough. The Last City (Tower), Earth Home of the Guardians, where you can regroup, rearm, and form new alliances before venturing beyond. Old Russia, Earth The cradle of