How to Import/Export Your Wordpress Blogroll... er, Your Links
It's not immediately apparent how to import/export the links in your Wordpress blogroll. One would expect that the import/export tool, used to backup/restore Wordpress posts and pages would handle this functionality as well. But the import/export tool has...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Backup and Rotate MySQL Databases Simple Bash Script
Make a directory ( it can anywhere ) called baks/mysql
mkdir -p /baks/mysql
Create a file (it can be anywhere) called /root/mysql_backups.sh and put this script in it
#!/bin/bash
# modify the following to suit your environment
export DB...
Written by Sean Behan on 05/16/2017
Pretty Formatted JSON from the Command Line
Sometimes you want to see JSON from the command line. I'm sure there are better tools for the job, but here is a little snippet you can throw in your ~/.bash_profile.
function json { curl -s "$1" | python -mjson.tool; }
Usage
json https://g...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/21/2013
Programmatically Turn Off Comments in Wordpress with Filter
To turn comments off programmatically with a filter in Wordpress, you can set the post object's comment_status variable to "closed". Call the filter at some point after the post is loaded but before the comments are rendered. This is a hack, but I haven't...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Testing current_user and Sessions with Sinatra and Rack Test
Assume you have your standard Sinatra application.
# app.rb
require 'sinatra'
configure do
enable :sessions
end
get '/' do
if session[:user_id]
"OK"
else
raise "NOT OK!"
end
end
To test this you need to make a re...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
