Matt Thiessen

Making plans to retire in Tucson

matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:11:26 +0000

Tucson, Arizona

Someday!

Tucson, Arizona

Check back soon for an update.

Pippy

matt — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:08:13 +0000

Using grep to scrape web pages

matt — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:38:20 +0000

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 “\<\![CDATA\[(.*?)]” hawkeye_stories.xml > hawkeye_stories_links.txt

Bash script to backup a WordPress web site

matt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:31:27 +0000

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

Saturday morning at Uncle Merlin’s lake

matt — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:31:40 +0000

is_home() not working in my WordPress plugin

matt — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:05:46 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

Belle Plaine outlaws Ultimate Fighting

matt — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:29:29 +0000

: 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.

Don’t upgrade yet!

matt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:23:14 +0000

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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matt — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:19:01 +0000

Committees and Board WordPress Plugin

matt — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:55:23 +0000

Matt Thiessen

Making plans to retire in Tucson

Pippy

Using grep to scrape web pages

Bash script to backup a WordPress web site

Saturday morning at Uncle Merlin’s lake

is_home() not working in my WordPress plugin

Belle Plaine outlaws Ultimate Fighting

Don’t upgrade yet!

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