Category: How To / Tutorials
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Ubuntu controlling network adapters through terminal
We all know that Ubuntu’s network management is quite good but not there yet. One big issue with it is that, on some machines, disabling one type of network adapter, disables the other one too. Like I use wifi to connect to the internet but my bluetooth is switched on by default all the time.…
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Fetch comments of a specific category in WordPress
WordPress already provides an easy function for fetching the comments get_comments() but the function only supports fetching comments of a particular user, or for a particular post and not fetching comments of a particular category. The code for the former two cases, is pretty simple but the last one is not so simple. Here are…
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WordPress plugin Facebook Like Thumbnail Updates
I have updated my WordPress plugin to fix Facebook Like Thumbnails to version 0.2 which I am sure will make the existing users happy! 🙂 Some of the users who quickly upgraded might be facing issues because of a silly mistake on my part. If the plugin has disappeared from the plugins listing, then you…
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Pagination approach using get_posts() in WordPress
Yesterday, I talk about using WP_query or query_posts or get_posts and today I am going to explain the approach I use to have pagination using get_posts(). The other two methods take care of the pagination by them self by just passing the paged parameter along with the function call. But get_posts() is more of a…