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Wordpress Snippets

Various snippets to add to your Wordpress site to improve it.

July 14, 2015 · 6 min · Matt Bagley · Updated Jan 31, 2016

Emojis slowing down WordPress

It happened. Again. For some reason the WordPress 4.2 version included a lovely little script called ‘wp-emoji-release.min.js’ that loads at the end of the page.

July 7, 2015 · 2 min · Matt Bagley
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How to Kill Zombie Processes with Zombie Slayer

When an infamous zombie process strikes, here’s how to kill it without having to reboot the machine.

April 27, 2015 · 4 min · Matt Bagley
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How to Deny Access to Dokuwiki Login Page via a Cookie

Do you ever have bots or hackers try to log into your dokuwiki login page? Here’s a way to block them with a simple cookie.

April 2, 2015 · 7 min · Matt Bagley

WPTool - cli for managing WordPress sites

A cli tool for managing WordPress

February 15, 2015 · 1 min · Matt Bagley · Updated Jun 5, 2015
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Force checking the file system

When the system starts throwing errors about the filesystem, you want to force check it on the next boot. Here’s how to do it in Systemd and SysVinit.

January 9, 2015 · 2 min · Matt Bagley

Better Dokuwiki SEO

While fixing my Dokuwiki site, I found a way to make the paths more SEO friendly, especially with searches.

May 27, 2014 · 2 min · Matt Bagley
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Increasing the Speed of WordPress sites

I increased the speed of some of my sites, one of which from a crazy 8 seconds down to about 1 second. Here’s how I did it.

May 17, 2014 · 3 min · Matt Bagley · Updated Aug 7, 2023
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LibreOffice Version Control

Lately I’ve been looking at different ways to do version control with office documents. I’ve been interested in this because I write stories and it’s nice to be able to see my work as I go along.

May 11, 2014 · 2 min · Matt Bagley
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Software Integrity Matters

Software is a great thing, giving us the able to do some wonderful things. But what about Trust and Integrity?

May 8, 2014 · 2 min · Matt Bagley