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July 22, 2014

WordPress Reset AUTO_INCREMENT ID In Posts

I've been testing a massive migration from a proprietary CMS to WordPress (using my WordPress C# client). After about 20 different tests my post IDs in the WordPress MySQL database got out of...

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July 13, 2014

Hosted Elasticsearch Recommendations

I've blogged about installing Elasticsearch and securing Elasticsearch. But what about hosted Elasticsearch? There are several great options out there if you don't want to deal with managing a...

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July 11, 2014

Securing Elasticsearch

Securing Elasticsearch is extremely important if you are running it in production. I learned the hard way. By design, security is not built into Elasticsearch. They leave it up to you as the...

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June 30, 2014

WordPress On IIS: Permissions, Updates, Permalinks

While it's not ideal (I prefer NGINX), sometimes you do need to run a WordPress site on a Windows Server running IIS. Here are a few common problems and solutions for running WordPress on IIS. I...

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