Thickbox is as jQuery plugin that WordPress use as it’s main popup window or modal view. It’s already built-in in WordPress so why not use that in front end. No need to download or import any extra files.
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February 21st, 2012
How to use WordPress native Thickbox support in front end
3 Comments, Wordpress, by Joakim Ling.February 15th, 2012
Make custom columns sortable in WordPress admin
2 Comments, Wordpress, by Joakim Ling.
WordPress has had the ability since a long time ago to add custom fields to posts. Also called as meta-data. It’s also possible to add these values to your table list and make them sortable.
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Not a lot of people knows that PHP supports SSH. I use it to execute remote commands, auto configure of web server configurations etc.
If you need to SSH to a server that only accepts a public key, the connection procedures get a bit more complicated.
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For now this is only possible in Webkit and Mozilla browsers, the discussion about best implementation is still an ongoing project.
You’ll have to use 2 rules, as the standards for this is not been set yet.
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For a long time we all have known that IPv4 limitations has come to an end. In the western world we are still heavily depending on IPv4 in a traditional way. However when it comes to younger and bigger Internet nations such as China and India, relaying on IPv4 is a disaster.
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ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine and install your public key. I recently had to do this on a server that had ssh on a different port. Normally as you do “-p 6000″ but in this case a bit tricky
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February 8th, 2012
How to configure Auto Scaling with Amazon Web Services EC2 and ELB
7 Comments, Linux, by Joakim Ling.
Using the Amazon Web services is a modern way to have your environment in the Cloud. It supports load balancing between your instances and thanks to Auto Scaling you’ll never need to pay for more than you use.
Basically the Auto Scaling launches additional instances to meet your demand, usually with help of a CPU alarm. Later removes them when not needed any more.
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February 1st, 2012
WP Easy Backup – Save all your custom files and database in one click
8 Comments, Plugins, by Joakim Ling.
“WP Easy Backup” is a WordPress plugin that will create a database dump and zip all your media, theme and plugin files.
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I wasted a good few hours trying to find a good solution on how to save an echoed string with sudo. I tried “sudo echo ..” and lots of different combinations before I made it work.
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December 9th, 2011
Get custom taxonomy name from post id with get_the_terms
No Comments, Wordpress, by Joakim Ling.
If you’ve registered a custom taxonomy it’s a bit different to get data from than how you’d normally do for categories.
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