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  • Setting cron to be run as root

    In Linux based distros, its very simple to setup cron for repeated tasks by using `crontab -e` for editing the crontab of the current user as you are logged in. You can view the contents of your crontab by `crontab -l`. But if you need to call something with root privileges, its as simple as…

  • Verify sending domain inside Mandrill without email hosting

    Mandrill has enforced upon us that the only way to verify a sending-domain (domain used to send emails from) is by getting an email sent by them on an email of the sending-domain in use. So, if you use **example.org** or **something.example.org** to send emails, you can now only verify your sending-domain, by receiving an…

  • Store Just WordPress Transients Persistently

    WordPress comes with an option of keeping cache in a persistent storage, if provided. It provides a great deal of performance since everything that WordPress was doing repeatedly on each page request now can be saved in the persistent cache storage (APC / Memcached / Redis) and retrieve easily & very fastly without doing much…

  • Override WP-CLI commands

    If you already don’t know about WP-CLI, its a pretty great tool to manage a WordPress install via terminal commands. This essentially gives you a lot of power enabling you to interact with the WordPress install just by commands and not having to interact with UI at all. Read more at [WP-CLI’s homepage](http://wp-cli.org/). It can…

  • Filtering transient expiration time in WordPress

    As of now WordPress, doesn’t offer a filter to control the expiration of the transient while its being set, so I quickly wanted to share a quick snippet I found on Trac, written by Andrew Nacin. Here is the snippet: Basically, `’set_transient_’ . $transient` hook is fired once the transient gets saved, so it saves…

  • Quickest way to get timestamp of a time in a particular timezone in PHP

    Playing with timezone conversions can be crazy, it still confuses me every time and I have to wait a minute to run some test code to figure out what’s it that I am trying to do here. Anyway, the quickest way I have to get timestamp of a time in particular time zone is This…

  • How to use a single image on Facebook when your website is shared

    Ideally, you would want to use context specific images to be shown on Facebook whenever any page of your WordPress website is shared on Facebook, but if for some reason you want only a single image to be shown irrespective of the context, that can be configured using my plugin – [Facebook Like Thumbnail](http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-like-thumbnail/) though…