Set Up Valet on macOS for Local WordPress Development

valet-wordpress-development

This is a guide on how to set up Laravel Valet on macOS for a WordPress local development environment. Using Valet as a WordPress local development solution has the main benefits of speed, being lightweight and using fewer configurations to go wrong than say a solution like Vagrant. There is a 2nd related article that…

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Tweaking RunCloud Servers After Deployment

Tweaking Runcloud Servers

Here are some references for various fix ups or tweaks that I apply to servers with the RunCloud control panel. These are not all done inclusively, it depends on the need. Change root password The root password initially generated by your host provider might be on the weaker side always best to change and strengthen it.…

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Disable default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates

Disable Wordpress Default Update Emails

The PHP constants below will disable the default WordPress emails on WordPress, themes and plugin updates. They should be added into your wp-config.php file. // Disable WordPress core update emails add_filter( ‘auto_core_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ ); // Disable WordPress plugin update emails add_filter( ‘auto_plugin_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ ); // Disable WordPress theme update emails add_filter( ‘auto_theme_update_send_email’, ‘__return_false’ );

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Converting MySQL/MariaDB database tables from MyISAM to InnoDB

Myisam Convert Innodb Storage Engine Wordpress

The InnoDB storage engine in MySQL/MariaDB is more performant than MyISAM – here are a few ways to change that database structure, using both the command line and also some WordPress plugins. Changing from MyISAM to InnoDB via the command line If you have wp-cli installed on your webserver you can check for MyISAM tables…

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Syncing RunCloud and Cloudflare firewalls for fail2ban IPs

Cloudflare Fail2ban Serverpilot

This guide looks at adding a proxied Cloudflare service to a server set up with RunCloud and fail2ban with a WordPress jail conf set up. Once you start using Cloudflare as a CDN solution for your hosting, you are adding another firewall into the equation, albeit a very good one, but you may want to…

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Add a WooCommerce missing action hook with shortcode in Beaver Builder

Add Shortcode Hook Woocommerce

Some themes or plugins remove native action hooks in WordPress / WooCommerce, however you can add them back in the layout with another action hook or shortcode insertion. Beaver Builder is missing some WooCommerce action hooks one such one is woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item_title , you can add that back to the WooCommerce loop by doing a custom…

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