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wp-cli update – file rename error

I have a script that runs the wp cli to loop through and update the Wordpress themes, plugins & core for a number of sites. Each site has different linux user ownership. The problem I am seeing is an error message of Permission denied when running sudo -u $OWNER...

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Modifying the WordPress sitemap.xml output

I use Wordpress for customer websites with the Divi theme and layouts however Wordpress is fundamentally a blogging platform so its sitemap.xml contains links to categories and users and you might not want to have those publicised and indexed by Google The following...

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User crontab missing supplementary groups

Problem: You get access denied when running a script from your user crontab but not when running it interactively Cause: Your user is in the correct group when logged in but not for cron Resolution: Add the user to the correct group This is on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS How to...

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