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Upgrade MySQL Database from 5.5 to 5.6 on macOS 10.8 Mountain Lion
MySQL version 5.6.14 is available for download for OSX, a double click and install is available named Mac OS X ver. 10.7 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive. (Don’t worry about the 10.7 naming, Works fine in OSX 10.9 and OSX 10.8) Stop the MySQL Server sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop Download and Launch the DMG There is no upgrade…
Remove the WordPress Reset Lost Password Link on Login Page
To remove the reset ‘Lost Your Password‘ link and function on the WordPress login page you need to add a function to your themes functions.php file and add in some CSS. The reason why both are needed as the forgot ‘Lost Your Password‘ link appears in 2 areas as a link in the bottom of the dialog box…
Secure the WP Admin Folder in WordPress Using htaccess
To protect your WordPress wp-admin folder from everyone else apart from you, you can add a htaccess file in the /wp-admin folder to allow only access from your IP address and everyone else will be denied and receive a ‘Page Not Found‘ 404 error. This ensures no-one can even get to the login screen which…
How to Create Custom WordPress Template Posts, Pages, Headers, Footers and Sidebars
How to create new WordPress templates for your theme including posts, pages, headers, footers and sidebars. To change the WordPress home page edit the index.php in the main theme if using a child theme, just copy and then edit the file in your child theme folder alternatively you can create/edit front-page.php – this will take priority over the index.php To make a…
Making Full Width Headers and Footers in WordPress TwentyTwelve Theme
How to create a full width header and footer in WordPress’s responsive Twenty Twelve theme. Example Site. Create a Child Theme First up you should really create and work from a Child Theme Make Header and Footer Copies to Child Theme Copy your header.php and footer.php files from twentytwelve to your twentytwelvechild theme folder. Your…
Find and replace text across a whole WordPress web site using phpMyAdmin
You can do a find and replace for text or html code on a post or page across a whole WordPress site by using the mysql database that the site stores all its data in. First up you need to connect to the database, if you have a cPanel/Plesk style hosting typically you will have…
Responsively Removing Width and Height Attributes on Images and wp-caption on WordPress
If you are looking to go responsive for images on your site and want a theme that responds to various devices such as tablets and mobiles there are a couple of issues to sort out with existing hard coded images that have hard coded inline style width and height attributes. In WordPress not only do you…
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on Tomcat Server Install
You’ve bought your SSL secure certificate and successfully installed on Tomcat with the keytool but how do your redirect the entire site to go HTTPS and redirect any HTTP connection straight over to HTTPS. You need to edit the 2 Tomcat configuration files; server.xml and web.xml and then when edited restart the tomcat service. Open…