Category: WordPress

Bitnami
To remove logo from bitnami wordpress, login to SSH as user “bitnami”, then run
```
sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/bnconfig --disable_banner 1
```
Now restart web server
```
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
```
If you are using Nginx, run
```
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart nginx
```
April 30, 2018
Enable Amazon Cloudfront CDN in WordPress
I was setting up a wordpress web site to use Amazon S3 + Cloudfront as CDN. I used w3 total cache plugin for this. w3 total cache plugin have option to auto create Amazon S3 bucket and cloudfront distribution, for for this, you need to give Amazon AWS API keys.

Clicking the button “Create as new bucket with distribution” will auto create s3 bucket and cloudfront for you.

if you site have images already uploaded, you need to upload them to Amazon S3. This can be done with W3 Total Cache.

If you have lot of files, upload may fail. You may need to use Amazon AWS CLI tool to do the upload.
```
aws s3 sync /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/uploads/ s3://your-bucket-name/wp-content/uploads/
```
If needed, you can upload themes and plugins folder too
```
aws s3 sync /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/ s3://your-bucket-name/wp-content/plugins/
aws s3 sync /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/themes/ s3://your-bucket-name/wp-content/themes/
```
December 31, 2017
Disable WordPress wp-cron.php
WordPress run its sheduled tasks using wp-cron.php, this get called every time visitor visits web site. This is not efficient method for high traffic web sites. Since this have to be loaded using web server, it can cause web server process hang if your cronjob take more time to finish. It is better disable wordpress cronjob and set a real cronjob.

To disable wordpress cronjob, edit wp-config.php file, add following
```
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
```
Now set a cronjob as follows
```
*/15 * * * * cd /home/user/public_html; php wp-cron.php &>/dev/null
```
December 25, 2017
WordPress
WordPress Installation
- How to install WordPress in Plesk using WordPress Toolkit
WordPress Migration
WordPress Developement
- How to create a WordPress shortcode?
- How to hide a WordPress Plugin
Tools

https://scanwp.net – Scan WordPress for plugins/theme installed

Errors
- WordPress CherryFramework lessphp fatal error
- CURL ERROR 7 could not establish a secure connection to WordPress.org
WordPress Attacks
- Stop xmlrpc.php attack on Cpanel Server
WordPress Behind Reverse Proxy

Add the following code to wp-config.php to get WordPress work behind a reverse proxy
```
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https') {
    $_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';
}
```
Enable SSL
```
update wp_options set option_value="https://yourdomain.extn" where option_name="siteurl" or option_name="home";
```
Increase WordPress memory

Add the following to wp-config.php
```
define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );
```
December 22, 2017
WordPress Cron
To disable wordpress cronjob, add
```
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);
```
to end of wp-config.php

Now you can set a cronjob with following code
```
*/5 * * * *  cd /var/www/html; php -q wp-cron.php
```
December 15, 2017