Always gotta love that time when you have to face a Magento upgrade. I’m documenting here my experiences and notes during my recent upgrade from Magento version 1.5.1.0 to 1.6.1.0. It must be noted that I use what’s basically the … Read More
If for example one was to upgrade from the last most recent version of WordPress 3.4 to 3.4.1 and wanted to know if the upgrade contains any database changes, you would do the following: 1. first visit the WP version … Read More
I’m over organized and it’s an absolute mess! It’s a sight to behold the documentation, notes, task lists and todos that I’m maintaining. I might have more methods of documenting things to do then I’ll have number of things to … Read More
The SQL for selecting a list of WordPress users with the role of “administrator”: SELECT um.user_id AS ID, u.user_login FROM wp_users u, wp_usermeta um WHERE u.ID = um.user_id AND um.meta_key = ‘wp_capabilities’ AND um.meta_value LIKE ‘%administrator%’ ORDER BY um.user_id Simply … Read More
I was finally moved to “Request an Invite” at Pinterest this evening and when I received the initial email I was amazed at how simple it really was. I mean, this coming from the fastest growing social network ever. It … Read More
Finally got tired of manually wrapping print_r in <pre> tags so I’m just going to drop this here for future reference: // wrap print_r in preformatted text tags // usage: print_pre($value) function print_pre($value) { echo "<pre>",print_r($value, true),"</pre>"; }// wrap print_r … Read More
There are a number of WordPress Plugins that appear to allow you to auto-post your WordPress blog posts to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. However, I am going with a service called dlvr.it to help me post my WordPress blog posts … Read More
Per client request I was asked that the WPtouch menu default to toggled open when on the frontpage . There may be more elegant solutions, but in order to achieve this I ended up editing a single WPtouch plugin file. … Read More
AXIS, Santa Clara’s newest, Restaurant, Lounge, Nightclub, and Event Center opens for business this upcoming weekend. This is a description of their establishment from the Axis website: AXIS Santa Clara’s newest Restaurant, Lounge, Nightclub, & Event Space. With 12,000 square … Read More
How to update WordPress user role capabilities using a simple PHP script and WordPress user functions. I came upon this issue recently in which I had full access to a WordPress installation; files, database, etc., but my WordPress user account … Read More
