Wordpress on Janik von Rotz

Another Wordpress to Hugo migration

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 09:11:28 +0000

Using Wordpress to run this blog has become an overkill. It was time to change. Static site generators, no database content management systems and JavaScript based tools make Wordpress an deprecated blogging platform. I had the idea of moving away from Wordpress for a while and decided to take a chance two weeks ago. This post is about the migration process and the design decisions made in preparation of the migration.

From the title you can tell that I chose Hugo as my next CMS, but why Hugo? First of all, I only have had a look at Jekyll and Hugo. Jekyll is written in ruby and Hugo in go. To make it short and simple, Hugo does whatever Jekyll does, but based on newer technologies and a lot faster. And also remember it doesn’t really matter. Both Hugo and Jekyll use markdown files and have almost the same format to store posts and data. So no big difference except speed.

WordPress checklist

Fri, 05 Jun 2015 06:54:03 +0000

Simple todo list for new WordPress websites. I’ll use it whenever I have to setup a new WordPress site. You’re welcome to contribute: https://codeberg.org/janikvonrotz/wordpress-checklist

Create WordPress admin user with sql only

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:54:28 +0000

If you don’t have access to you WordPress website anymore, but still can update the MySQL database. You can easily add a new admin user with this sql script:

USE <database>;
 
SET @username = '<username>';
SET @password = MD5('<password>');
SET @fullname = '<Firstname Lastname>';
SET @email = '<login@example.com>';
SET @url = '<http://example.com/>';
 
INSERT INTO `wp_users` (`user_login`, `user_pass`, `user_nicename`, `user_email`, `user_url`, `user_registered`, `user_status`, `display_name`) VALUES (@username, @password, @fullname, @email, @url, NOW(), '0', @fullname);
 
SET @userid = LAST_INSERT_ID();
INSERT INTO `wp_usermeta` (`user_id`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`) VALUES (@userid, 'wp_capabilities', 'a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}');
INSERT INTO `wp_usermeta` (`user_id`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`) VALUES (@userid, 'wp_user_level', '10');

Get the latest version of this snippet here: https://gist.github.com/25d9f243fc20532cb1b5

Manage multiple WordPress sites with Jetpack

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:05:02 +0000

Hurray, WordPress 4.1 and the Jetpack Plugin 3.3 has been released. Jetpack is a must have plugin for your WordPress site, it offers tons of new functions and integrates your blog neatly with your Wordpress.com account. If you haven’t already installed it, head right now to your plugin manager! With the last Update the developer have added a great feature. It’s now possible to manage the plugins for multiple Wordpress sites at one location. Here’s a screenshot, which shows the plugins admin panel of Wordpress.com.

Disable WordPress plugins manually

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:05:06 +0000

With the WordPress 3.9 Update I also received several plugin updates for my blogs.

One Update was for WP-Piwik. As I’ve updated the plugin I got several errors and the site become unreachable.

So the only way the to disable this malicious plugin was either via ftp or with phpMyAdmin.

I’ve decided to do it with phpMyAdmin.

Install WPScan

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:10:57 +0000

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/11214650.

Introduction

WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner.

Migrate WordPress website

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:44:47 +0000

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9409150.

Introduction

This guide assumes that you’re going to migrate a WordPress website from one server to an other.

Install WordPress website

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:00:32 +0000

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9408580.

Introduction

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog.

Disable Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:24:50 +0000

Trackbacks and Pingbacks can be abused for spam and even DDOS attacks.

To disable trackbacks and pingbacks completely on WordPress, do the following:

Disable for new posts

Uncheck the following setting:

Settings>Discussion>Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)

Update Url within WordPress Post Content

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:06:55 +0000

Recently I’ve change the url for one of my GitHub projects.

Old: https://codeberg.org/janikvonrotz/PowerShell-Profile
New: https://codeberg.org/janikvonrotz/PowerShell-PowerUp

As you might know, I’ve used this url in several posts. In order to make this obsolete links I have to replace them in every posts.