Tag Archives: wordpress

TL;DR: When running WordPress inside a container based on the wordpress:php7.4-fpm-alpine image, docker logs will only show you the system logs. Your own log messages i.e., the messages you output in your application using the error_log function will appear in … Continue reading →

Preface: The steps here worked for me on Mac. You may run into issues with Windows if you are using WSL2. This article describes the steps you need to do to debug WordPress PHP code that is running inside a … Continue reading →

This post describes the internals of wordpress:php7.4-fpm-alpine Docker image. The source code of this image can be found here. The wordpress container does nothing but run the following command and wait for it to end which it never does as … Continue reading →

First make sure you have adequately increased the maximum file size that can be uploaded to wordpress. It is possible that uploads may still not work. On php-fpm-alpine image (and even on apache) wordpress runs under the credentials of www-data … Continue reading →

Apache is a solid web server but my goto environment for wordpress has now changed to running it on Docker with NGINX + php7.4-fpm-alpine. To change the max file size you can upload to wordpress, you will need to make … Continue reading →

This is probably the longest time I have spent on debugging something (4 days) so its worth the effort to write about it. The problem: We built a wordpress site but got CloudFlare 522 error when trying to connect to … Continue reading →

The dbDelta function documented at https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins: The dbDelta function examines the current table structure, compares it to the desired table structure, and either adds or modifies the table as necessary, so it can be very handy for updates (see wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php … Continue reading →

This post describes how to develop a WordPress plugin that can be used to count visits to a WordPress site. The basic idea is that we will create a table visitor_log in which we will store the timestamp, url_visited, ip_address, … Continue reading →

It is very important to backup wordpress db. This is done using mysqldump command. In the basic form: mysqldump -u wpreader –password=’password’ wordpress > backup.sql But we need to automate this and protect the password. This is done by following … Continue reading →