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Two ways to rebuild the Divi CSS Cache
If enabled Divi maintains a cache of many pre-compiled CSS assets. When you move the site to another URL the cached CSS has the old URL embedded and you will notice many weird formatting issues caused by missing style sheets. You can remove the et-cache directory and...
Site search and replace in the WordPress Database using wp-cli
Transferring Wordpress to a local instance for development and testing Install PHP Composer https://getcomposer.org/download Install wp-cli composer global require wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle apt-get install less Run search and replace cd /var/www/html # or whatever your...
Turn off Microsoft Account Nag
Settings => System => Notifications => Scroll to "Additional settings" and uncheck these three options: Enterprise Only Seems like this won't work on Windows 11 Pro as the policy explicitly mentions "Note: This setting only applies to Enterprise and Education...
What is my IPv4 and / or IPv6 Address?
https://toggen.com.au/ip.html
Create a swap partition on ephemeral storage on Azure VM
My VM has an 8G ephemeral volume and it seems to be wasted so why not put the swapfile on there You need the cloud-init service: sudo systemctl is-enabled cloud-init.service enabled The instructions with a couple of options are here:...
A Form that sends email from WordPress without setting up Mail Relay
With Jotform you can add a form to your Wordpress posts/pages and the post data and sending of the email is handled by Jotform servers instead of sending the email down to to /usr/bin/sendmail, using PHP's SMTP mailer or another Mailer plugin. https://www.jotform.com