Alan’s Personal Techy Website

  • UK Cloud Hosting | Vidahost Discount Code

    I am often asked if I can recommend a UK cloud host for people’s website. There are a few reliable hosts that perform, and there are a lot of resellers and pile them high sell them cheap hosts, but the one I’d recommend is VidaHost VidaHost have excellent support and their service performs well. Whats…

  • Find all the name servers of domain in Virtualmin

    This script should find all the name servers of domains in virtualmin   for dom in $(virtualmin list-domains –with-feature web –name-only); do host -t ns $dom done      

  • WordPress forms package to Capsule CRM

    Capsule CRM is a great cloud based CRM, and I have developed in the past custom integrations, e.g. between Gravity Forms & Capsule. So when a new lead comes in it is lodged directly into Capsule CRM via the provide API calls. The problem is not exactly simple as various checks need to be made,…

  • Conditionally display Genesis Social Share, e.g. not on a specific category

    The Genesis Social Share plugin is one of the must have plugins for Genesis sites. See https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-share/ I wanted to display these icons (just like the ones on this post) except on posts in a specific category.  I had to read the plugin code to work this out. Fortunately the code is an example of beautifully…

  • Linux command to create a tar gzip archive

    To create a tar compressed archive, i.e. tar gzip  from the linux commend line tar -cvzf myarchive.tar.gz directory  

  • Rightmove blm to XML convertor documentation

    Available to buy now https://fullworks.net/products/rightmove-blm-to-xml-converter/ What does plugin this do? This plugin takes a Rightmove formatted .blm file and associated images files that you place on your server and converts it into a .xml file for onward processing (normally via the plugin WP All Import Pro ). The process runs automatically under wp-cron (see https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/ ) at…