tallesairan

How to unpack .wpress archive files created by the All-in-one-Wp-Migration Wordpress plugin

Recently I needed to download some files from a Wordpress installation where the client only gave me access to the admin dashboard. Fortunately the All-in-One WP Migration plugin was already installed, so I could take a quick backup of the whole site by downloading the installed plugins, theme and database. To my surprise downloading the backup from the All-in-One WP Migration plugin only gave me a single compressed migration.wpress file that any unpack tool refused to extract. A little web search brought me to a five year old tool called Wpress-Extractor but the provided binaries for MacOS refused to work because the package was already too old.

So I decided to rewrite this little helpful tool in Node.js to make it cross-platform compatible for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Ok here it is: A simple 2-step tutorial how to extract a file with the .wpress extension on your computer:

1. Step

sachinsmc

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ageis

[compressor] # Dynamic range compressor
# RMS/peak (float)
compressor-rms-peak=0.100000
# Attack time (float)
compressor-attack=50.000000
# Release time (float)
compressor-release=250.000000
# Threshold level (float)
compressor-threshold=-20.000000
# Ratio (float)

logichub

<?php
// Auto fill Title and Slug for 'companies' CPT
function acf_title_companies( $value, $post_id, $field ) {

	if ( get_post_type( $post_id ) == 'companies' ) {

		$new_title = get_field( 'company_name', $post_id ) . ' ' . $value;
		$new_slug = sanitize_title( $new_title );

		wp_update_post( array(

MTuner

Apple removed colored sub-pixel antialiasing in MacOS Mojave
(https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/209/ starting from ~28min)

To make fonts look normal in Sublime Text, add to Preferences:

// For the editor
"font_options": [ "gray_antialias" ],
// For the sidebar / other elements
"theme_font_options": [ "gray_antialias" ],

xirixiz

SSH keypair setup for GitHub (or GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket, etc, etc)

Create a repo.

Make sure there is at least one file in it (even just the README.md)

Generate a SSH key pair (private/public):

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com"

harryfinn

Instructions for using WP-CLI to migrate a WordPress DB

# Export current (local) DB
wp db export db.sql

# Copy file from local to server (may need to amend server path if not in html folder)
# The example below is for local to remote, simply swap these 2 around for remote to local
scp -r db.sql www-data@IP_ADDRESS:/var/www/html

# SSH onto box (should be same connection details as above)

shmup

Transmission Blocklist

The Transmission torrent client has an option to set a Blocklist, which helps protect you from getting caught and having the DMCA send a letter/email.

It's as simple as downloading and installing the latest client:

• https://transmissionbt.com/download/

addyosmani

CSS Layout Debugger

A tweet-sized debugger for visualizing your CSS layouts. Outlines every DOM element on your page a random (valid) CSS hex color.

One-line version to paste in your DevTools

Use $$ if your browser aliases it:

~ 108 byte version

jo-snips

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Adds new body classes
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
add_filter('body_class', 'add_browser_classes');
function add_browser_classes($classes){

    if(is_singular()) {
      global $post;
      $classes[] = $post->post_name;
    }