Tutorials

Don’t Stick to hta Applications

If you have the burden to work on hta applications you might get into conflict with incompatibilities. So am I. I wanted to migrate a hta application from 2012 with bootsrap 2 to bootstrap 3. Bootstrap 3 doesn’t support IE 7 any more and also the fix with Respond.js doesn’t work in local files. So what now? I found node… Read more →

Revoke PGP key

Follow this tutorial if you want to revoke a pgp key. All you need for this is your private key and eventually the pass phrase to open it. At first you need to install pgp on your machine. I have installed GnuPG. Change to the install dir or add to PATH.

Next import your private key:

check if… Read more →

Find broken shortcodes

If you recently changed your theme and used shortcodes from it or disabled plugins you maybe want to find all leftovers of them because they are not translated any more. You will find things like [shortcode attribute=”bla”] all over website. Obviously you don’t want to review each post on your website to find them manually. So there comes a little… Read more →

sort functions – access class member

If you want to sort a class member with the functions uasort, uksort, usort (the u stands for user-defined comparison function) you have to take care of some things. bool uksort ( array &$array , callable $key_compare_func ) The function takes as first parameter the array you want to sort as reference. Thereby no copy is made to the function stack and any changes are directly made on… Read more →

WordPress change post_date for tests

If you want to create a post via the post factory in you tests you can do it like this:

Make sure to pass a date! Unix timestamps or other formats won’t work. This creates 2 posts with different dates. You can test the function getPostsInYear(2014) as follows:

Post1 should not be returned by getPostsInYear( 2014 ) because… Read more →

How to install Scrapy

This line installs all requirements for pip first. After that you can install pip. With pip you can install Scrapy.

This should avoid errors like:

The reason for this error might be “out of memory”. Check the last lines of  dmesg | tail Read more →

WordPress action or filter not called

If you are using the wordpress api to hook into actions or filters there are some pitfalls. But these pitfalls are not wordpress related but likely your faults. I wan’t to show how to NOT hook into wordpress. 1. add_action( "actionA", array( __CLASS__, "processA", 10, 3) ); Please check the array declaration. Stupid mistake, but it’s hard to locate the error. You can output $wp_filter and check… Read more →

Problems Solved for Setting Up Jenkins

You must set the %JAVA_HOME% and Path environment variables for jenkins. Otherwise you should get errors like:

To do so follow this steps: Create a %JAVA_HOME% var with path to the Java jdk/jre (without /bin) Add %JAVA_HOME% to the Path var. Extend the string with \bin now. Check the result by enter javac in the cmd. If something java… Read more →