Author: Nicholas Rowe

  • Quick snippet to change all instances of WordPress URL

    Sometimes you are moving a websites folder structure, or sometimes you are moving a website hosts. This quick and easy sql script will allow you to update all instances of the current URL with a new URL so moving wordpress sites is painless.   UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.oldurl’, ‘http://www.newurl’) WHERE option_name =…

  • WordPress SSL Offloading

    Understanding what’s happening When your page is accessed over HTTPS, but the Load Balancer is performing SSL offloading and actually requesting your content on the non-SSL port 80, the webserver, PHP, or anything else for that matter, does not understand or see that it’s being accessed over https://. The fix for this, is that Load…

  • Hiding Applications from the Mac Osx Dock

    I have a few applications that I run whilst I’m using my computer, these applications are literally only used upon startup and then never touched again until I need to restart my computer. What’s the point in having them in the system dock? Well, none. Usually you can do a simple right click on the…