Author: Ashfame
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Updated Facebook Like Thumbnail WordPress plugin (v0.3.1) released
I just pushed out the latest version of my plugin [Facebook Like Thumbnail](http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-like-thumbnail/), `v0.3.1` to be precise, on WordPress.org plugins repo. It should show up in your WordPress admin shortly if you are using it and if not, then here is yet another reason to try the plugin out if random or unwanted images show…
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Get WordPress images from a different site
Developers usually work on their local installs before pushing any changes to the live or production server and that’s how a developer’s workflow should be. In order to setup a local or dev install on which a developer can work or test, they need to pull down the codebase and database dump to exactly mirror…
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Use WooCommerce product image as its category image
WooCommerce is capable of showing category as well as products on its shop page and this is configurable from settings available in admin side but I can totally imagine running into the situation that categories don’t have their images uploaded and they will end up showing placeholder / default image. A quick solution would be…
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How to use WooCommerce email design in custom emails
Let’s say you have already styled your WooCommerce email and want to use the same email design for a custom email, how will you go about that? Turns out its pretty easy. For the sake of simplicity , I am assuming you have the needed data in variables, change them accordingly as per your code.…
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SSH password less key authentication 101
Check whether you already have a key pair generated. Inside .ssh directory of your home, if you see files name id_rsa and id_rsa.pub then you can use them. If you don’t have them, generate a new one. How to generate a SSH key pair? ssh-keygen -t rsa To be able to use password less authentication,…
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Setting up your VPS
Its very easy to setup a VPS considering the tools now we have on our exposure. This post is more of a self note to myself, so pardon me for not explaining things. To quickly setup latest NginX, MySQL, PHP (with APC and Suhosin) & exim, just use this script https://github.com/vladgh/VladGh.com-LEMP These instructions will get things…
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Send & Receive mails to & from localhost
Mails don’t work when locally but sometimes it might prove to be very useful in development if one can send & receive mails to & from localhost. It can be setup pretty easily too. Basic idea is to configure postfix for localhost & then use mutt to read local mails. Here is how it is…