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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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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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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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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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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...
Read →May 29, 2014
Install Elasticsearch in 5 Minutes on Digital Ocean
This is a short tutorial to install Elasticsearch in 5 minutes on Ubuntu in a Digital Ocean droplet. I've been working with WordPress for a long time and what really got me hooked in the early days...
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