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Find the bandwidth hog by viewing all network connections passing through your DD-WRT router Something was using all of my upstream bandwidth, wasn’t sure what device or who it was (had friends over). To get to the bottom of it quickly, a simple command can be run from the DD-WRT web-based gui that will show all network connections on your DD-WRT router. Just follow these 5 easy steps below: 1.…
So easy to miss, but so important for SSH Private Key Authentication I don’t allow password logins on any of my servers. Can only login via SSH key based authentication. No root login is allowed, and I specify every user that’s allowed to login via SSH, ie: me. If you’re a regular here, you know I love DigitalOcean. They have a very nice tutorial on setting up SSH private key…
WooCommerce & Schema.org Is Awesome Adding schema.org markup to a well coded WordPress theme is relatively straight forward and doesn’t take very long to get setup. I covered how to add schema.org markup to your WordPress theme in a previous post, but I recently needed to apply schema.org markup to an e-commerce site using WooCommerce. It’s surprisingly easy to do. You’ll need to be using a child…
Introduction This tutorial will show you how to create a simple theme in Hugo. I assume that you are familiar with HTML, the bash command line, and that you are comfortable using Markdown to format content. I’ll explain how Hugo uses templates and how you can organize your templates to create a theme. I won’t cover using CSS to style your theme. We’ll start with creating a new…
Search for common phrases related to SSH logins Papertrail is good for all types of things, I especially enjoy it because it makes finding problems quite easy. Another fun thing to do with Papertrail is see how many people are trying to either login to your server via ssh, or attack sshd itself. Find Potential Break-In Attempts You can save searches in Papertrail, which makes finding certain…
A jQuery Plugin for Making Circles My last post about the jQuery plugin Circliful was pretty popular. So, here’s another, detailing how to actually use Circliful. Circliful has a number of options that can be set as data attributes. Data attributes are the primary method for setting various options, such as the circle background color, fill color, and the percentage. All of the possible data…
Frustration-free log management, plus a lot more I’ve been a huge fan of Papertrail ever since I discovered it, probably about a year ago or so. I use it mostly to monitor server logs. I currently have two servers setup to send syslog messages to Papertrail. The Papertrail Events dashboard can be a bit overwhelming at first, but the provided search is powerful and allows you to finely control…
Easily Reset WordPress Database WordPress Database Reset is a WordPress plugin I recently came across that will at some point prove very, very useful to me. It’s not often that I need to reset a production WordPress database to it’s default settings, but this plugin will make the task a whole lot easier. Chris Berthe, the author, describes the plugin like this: WordPress Database Reset is a secure…
After creating a new Droplet using the pre-built WordPress image provided by DigitalOcean, you’re presented with a very helpful message after logging in via SSH: To finish installing WordPress, navigate to your droplet’s IP: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Make sure to specify hostname from DO panel to your droplet before creating it (for example: ‘blog.mydomain.com’ or ‘myblog.com’) This will create…
Hi! My name is Tyler and this is my personal site. I typically write about WordPress, Linux, Xbox 360’s, and various web things like CSS, PHP, and javascript. I am an extremely proud father, to two wonderous daughters. When I am not spending time with them, I can usually be found at a computer building something or in the timber cutting up the last of the ash trees. I’ve also written a book, it’s…