In a previous article, I’d shown you how to connect to your MySQL WordPress database remotely through the HeidiSQL program. Now if you need to take a backup, it’s extremely easy. Just open your database in HeidiSQL, right-click the database you want and export as SQL. Problem solved! However, this is purely a GUI interface. […]
How To Connect Remotely To The WordPress MySQL Database
WordPress lives in its database. The files and folders on your server are for appearances only. CSS, Javascript, and PHP files can usually be replaced from other sources. But your content – that is what makes your site special and unique. And that content lives in the database. If you had to pluck out one […]
How To Add A Shortcode In WordPress
Shortcodes are a very powerful feature in WordPress that allows you to replace some text with something else when the page is displayed. Since the processing for the shortcode happens in the background at runtime, the result can be different. Perhaps you want to pull a value from a database. In this step by step […]
Gutenberg For WordPress Is Annoying As Hell
Some people just don’t like change. No matter how much better a tool is, they always prefer the older one. We all know people like that. It’s neither a bad, nor a good thing. They come around eventually, but it takes time. I, however, am the complete opposite. I LOVE trying out new stuff. A […]
How To Change The Font Color In WordPress
All themes need to be customized in order to achieve the look and feel you want. Despite the thousands of free and paid themes for WordPress, you’ll never find one that fits you out of the box. One of the most common customizations is to change the background, the font color etc. Unfortunately, not all […]
How To Remove Theme Footer Links In WordPress
Most WordPress themes display their name with a link back to their site. Here’s an example: It’s possible to remove these links. However, not all themes make it easy. In general, there are three types of themes with regard to footer links. Those like Genesis which explicitly have provisions to remove the links “Norma” themes […]
How To Add Google Analytics To Your Site Without A Plugin
Google Analytics is such an important part of a webmaster’s arsenal, that I honestly don’t know a single site owner who doesn’t use it. For tracking and reports, there’s nothing better. And it’s free! All you need to do is add a snippet of code to your website and you’re done. The problem however, comes […]
How To Check File And Folder Disk Space In Linux
The Linux command line can leave you feeling as if you don’t have all the information at your fingertips. In a traditional GUI, you can just peek at the bottom of the window and see how much space a folder is using. Or you can hover over a file or folder and get its size. […]
How To Disable Root Logins On Linux
In the last tutorial, we saw how to give a user sudo privileges. One of the main benefits, is that we’re now free to disable root logins on Linux. So why is important? Most Linux installations come with the root user by default. Ubuntu is one notable exception where root is disabled. The problem with […]
How To Change The Homepage In WordPress
Today WordPress powers around 30% of all sites on the Internet. That’s a staggering number. And while today it’s suitable for just about any kind of site design, it still sticks to its original roots in the blogging world. As a result, the homepage displays a list of latest posts in reverse chronological order. While […]