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Adding a WordPress Admin User via SQL

Using MySQL CLI or MySQL Workbench USE yourwpdb; # remember to take into account the custom table prefix if you have one # e.g. 7jhdy66N_ is a custom table prefix and replaces the default wp_ prefix INSERT INTO `7jhdy66N_users` (`user_login`, `user_pass`,...

Note to self avoid Bittitan

Reasons The knowledgeable original core team isn't there to respond to support requests. When contacting support you get regurgitated AI responses The online help docs used to be good but now aren't explicit about what the product can do causing confusion, or...

ssl_stapling warning when running nginx -t

nginx -t nginx: [warn] "ssl_stapling" ignored, no OCSP responder URL in the certificate "/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com.au/fullchain.pem" nginx: [warn] "ssl_stapling" ignored, no OCSP responder URL in the certificate...

FrankenPHP + Caddy + Ubuntu 24.04 + CakePHP Worker

This is getting FrankenPHP running with Caddy on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS without Docker Note: CakePHP doesn't currently come with a drop-in frankenphp worker script. The script sample works if you set $maxRequests to 1 and let frankenphp restart it for every request....