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September 11, 2014

WordPress Mass Update Post, Page, or Custom Post Type Taxonomies

I'm working on a massive WordPress migration project and after we defined taxonomies they needed to be changed or updated. I tried doing this with SQL but that turned into an Inner Join nightmare due...

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August 8, 2014

Add Already Registered Custom Taxonomy to Custom Post Type in WordPress

If you have already defined your custom taxonomy in another plugin and want to use it in a custom post type that you might register in a second plugin, you'll need to add something like this in your...

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August 2, 2014

WordPress Permalinks On IIS

We have an entire post on tips for running WordPress on IIS, but it seems one of the biggest questions that come up in forums is how to get WordPress permalinks on IIS working properly. The easiest...

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July 28, 2014

WordPress Filter Posts By Custom Field Value In Admin

Searching for posts or pages in the WordPress admin by default only includes titles and body content. If you want to search by custom fields in the WP Admin Edit Posts / Pages page then you can...

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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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