Tag: wordpress
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Minimal WordPress Fail2ban integration
token fail2ban setup for use with wordpress to catch failed login attempts
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hotel booking / wp_mphb_sync_logs
long running MySQL queries with wp_mphb_sync_logs / wordpress hotel booking plugin
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Automated twitter compilation up to 22 November 2020
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 22 November 2020
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Automated twitter compilation up to 21 January 2018
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 21 January 2018
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Automated twitter compilation up to 24 July 2016
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 24 July 2016
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Lazy wordpress updating using wp-cli.phar
Fed up installing updates to WordPress sites? Stick this in a cron job somewhere, and cross your fingers (a little)….
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varnish throttling
I came across the varnish throttle module the other day – which seems quite useful – and certainly gives better control over abusive requests than using fail2ban (in that, only specific URLs/request types can be targeted and blocked with the throttle module, while fail2ban tends to trigger the blocking of any traffic from a client…
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Cleaning up a lot of WordPress _transients
WordPress seems to like hiding a load of ‘transient’ (cacheable) stuff in it’s wp_options table. Unfortunately for one site, it seems it didn’t bother to clean up the transient stuff, leaving behind about 750,000 records… which made a WP version upgrade painful, as MySQL locks the wp_option table which causes all other page loads to…
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Automated twitter compilation up to 18 January 2015
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 18 January 2015
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Automated twitter compilation up to 28 December 2014
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog up to 28 December 2014