The Lawn Crew website was built using the Genesis Framework and a Studio Press premium theme ‘Show Case Pro’. There have been some customisation to reflect Surrey Lawn Care Services brand, which of course is providing lawn maintenance services to the lawns in and around Surrey. Despite looking quite different to the demo theme this [Read the full article…]
Google Compute Engine Snapshot automation
Google Compute Engine comes with an incremental snapshot capability. The product doesn’t have a specific automated method to take snapshots and to tidy them up either, but scripting using the gcloud command line is fairly straight forward, once you understand the power of the command line. I have seen many attempts at automating this using [Read the full article…]
Using GIT to deploy scripts to production servers
This is how I use GIT to deploy script configurations to multiple servers. In this instance I have fail2ban configuration that I want to be able to deploy to multiple servers easily & quickly I assume you are root – otherwise prefix commands with sudo as appropriate I also assume that you have remote root [Read the full article…]
Goalscape Discount Code
Looking for a Goalscape discount coupon code or a Goalscape promo code? Goalscape rarely has discount code, but do some times. Just click the Goalscape banner below to reveal all current Goalscape promo codes If there isn’t a Goalscape discount code available, the best deal for Goalscape will be shown. Good luck obtaining your Goalscape [Read the full article…]
Submit A Post via Front End using Gravity Forms
The following is a Gravity Form Form, that allows you to submit a post via the front end. It can submit as ‘draft’, ‘pending review’ or even ‘published’. Feel free to try it, and if you include a valid WordPress tip or other news I may even publish it.
jQuery to remove a link and just replace it with anchor text
Occasionally a WordPress plugin is not templated, so difficult to customise the output, so in these circumstances one solution is to use jQuery to modify the output. Now this is not pure and a bit hacky, as ideally you would change the code that is producing the output. However the situation is just sometimes that isn’t [Read the full article…]
How to Extract URLs from Google SERPs
These steps are how to easily extract URLs from google SERPs Install Chrome Install Chris Ainsworth’s Extractor ‘bookmarklet’ http://www.chrisains.com/seo-tools/extract-urls-from-web-serps/ Install ginfinity plugin for Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ginfinity/dgomfdmdnjbnfhodggijhpbmkgfabcmn Set Google search to return 100 per page Run the query Click on the bookmark This summarises the steps detailed and provided by Chris Ainsworth at http://www.chrisains.com/seo-tools/extract-urls-from-web-serps/
WordPress Roles and Capabilities
WordPress comes with a standard set of roles and capabilities e.g. Super Admin ( only applies to multi-site networks ) Administrator Editor Author Contributor Subscriber These roles are described here https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities However these are only the default, and can easily be customised to meet virtually any requirement. Traditionally this has been a programming task, and many [Read the full article…]
Sailwave and sending files by SCP or SFTP
Sailwave is a windows based application that manages scoring and results for sail races and series See http://www.sailwave.com/ Sailwave comes with many different ways to ‘publish’ results, including FTP’ing the html results files to a server. Whilst there are many ways to achieve the desired results, the situation arose that my server no longer supported FTP [Read the full article…]
5 minute guide to setup process monitoring with MONIT on Linux
If you are running a VPS, for a production server, it is very useful to have a process that monitors, and restarts if failed, and notifies you of key processes, like apache, mysql, postfix & ssh. Monit is a free open source tool that does the job. Took me a little while to get my [Read the full article…]
