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Making plans to retire in Tucson
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Using grep to scrape web pages
In preperation to scrape a number of web pages, I used grep to make a list of URLs I need to scrape. The list of URLs was in an RSS file.
grep -P “\<link><\![CDATA\[(.*?)]” hawkeye_stories.xml > hawkeye_stories_links.txt
Bash script to backup a WordPress web site
The script (backup_site.sh) for backing up a site has been modified. It now accepts parameters.
Parameter 1: domain
Parameter 2: database [optional]
Parameter 3: subdomain [optional]
Run as root
/home/root/sites/backup_site.sh gazlab.com matt_wp matt
#!/bin/bash
SITE=$1
SUBDOMAIN=$3
DBNAME=$2
if [ -z "$SUBDOMAIN" ]
then
if [ -z "$DBNAME" ]
then
mysqldump $DBNAME > /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/httpdocs/$DBNAME.sql
fi
tar -czvf $SITE.httpdocs.tar.gz /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/httpdocs
else
if [ -z "$DBNAME" ]
then
mysqldump $DBNAME > /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/subdomains/$SUBDOMAIN/httpdocs/$DBNAME.sql
fi
tar -czvf $SUBDOMAIN.$SITE.httpdocs.tar.gz /var/www/vhosts/$SITE/subdomains/$SUBDOMAIN/httpdocs
fi
exit 0
is_home() not working in my WordPress plugin
When using is_home(), is_category(), is_page() etc. in my WordPress plugin that displays category-based ads, they kept returning NULL.
My problem was that I was calling this these function directly in my plugin. I resolved this by adding these call to my adHeaderSetup() function and setting the hook add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘adHeaderSetup’);
Belle Plaine outlaws Ultimate Fighting
- Image by Stefan Tell via Flickr
My hometown, Belle Plaine, Iowa, had a bad experience after a recent show in the Legion Hall. I say too bad.
The city council rushes to pass a new ordinance.
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Don’t upgrade yet!
I know how tempting it is to press that upgrade button, but don’t do it without backing up those files. Backing up your files first is just too quick and easy to skip when doing it from the command line. Here’s how:
Backup your MySQL database
DATE=`date | tr ” ” _`
mysqldump -u root -p DatabaseName > DatabaseName.$DATE.sql
Backup your web directory
tar cvzf new_filename.tar.gz /var/www/thiessen.us/httpdocs
c = create
v = verbose
z = compress
f = filename is being provided
If you need to restore these files
Restore MySQL database
mysql -u root -p DatabaseName < DatabaseName.Thu_Jun_11_08:14:41_CDT_2009.sql
Restore the web directory
cd /var/www/thiessen.us (change directory to the location of the web directory)
mv httpdocs httpdocs_bad (rename the current web directory)
tar -xzvf httpdocs.tar.gz (uncompress the backup)
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Committees and Board WordPress Plugin
Displaying the Committees
View Members
Edit Member
Update Member
Press the “add new member button”
Add New Member
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