by Mark Wilmoth | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
In Windows, install Apache and MariaDB as services and always use the Services App to start/stop MariaDB because the XAMPP Control Panel can wreck your database when you start and stop it there. While you are at it, you might as well use the Services App to start and...
by Mark Wilmoth | Feb 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
This works with MariaDB. I assume it works with MySQL, but have not tried it. Run this SQL in PHPMyAdmin with phpmyadmin selected: GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON phpmyadmin.* TO ‘pma’@’localhost’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Note that this does...
by Mark Wilmoth | Jul 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Add this to your functions.php before exporting posts. It will run the content through the same wpautop() function that’s used to display posts. function codelight_content_export($content) { return wpautop($content); }...
by Mark Wilmoth | Feb 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Before downloading the required files to install Imagick, we need to identify your PHP version, PHP compiler version, architecture (x86 or x64), PHP extension build, and whether thread safety is enabled or not. This information can be found by running php -i at the...
by Mark Wilmoth | Oct 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sandmail is included with XAMPP to allow PHP scripts to send emails. It is not tricky to set up, other than the SMTP server you want to send through must allow mail to be sent through them. We will be using the Gmail SMTP server, but by default, Gmail will not allow...
by Mark Wilmoth | May 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Updated: 08/01/2021 Setting up an SSL certificate for XAMPP is pretty straight forward, but it won’t completely work if you are trying to use a private, local domain on your own computer. This is mostly caused by the certificates not being issues by a...
