Wordpress

Upgrade

I always update Wordpress when an update is available, straight in the admin panel with no backup.

'CACHING WILL KILL YOU THOUGH.' Remember to restart apache AFTER pressing the auto-update button:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

Manual

Usually caching is to blame when something goes wrong (see above). But if you need to dig deeper, you can try a manual update (ie, 'clobber'):

 # FIRST DISABLE ALL PLUGINS yes this will FUCK YOU UP OTHERWISE
 # worst-case, if things are fubar, rename this folder: wp-content/plugins

 🌵 m@bitpost  [~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news] wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
 🌵 m@bitpost  [~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news] rm -rf wp-includes wp-admin
 🌵 m@bitpost  [~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news] unzip latest.zip
 🌵 m@bitpost  [~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news] sudo chown -R apache:apache .
 🌵 m@bitpost  [~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news] sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart # RESTART APACHE or shit will be cached

one-liner:
cd ~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip && rm -rf wp-includes wp-admin && unzip latest.zip && sudo chown -R apache:apache . && sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

My themes

bitpost.com/news

Here i use a very jacked theme:

~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news/wp-content/themes/mdm_veryplaintxt

Custom widgets, fonts, etc:

~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news/wp-content/themes/mdm_veryplaintxt/functions.php

CSS:

~/development/bitpost.com/htdocs/news/wp-content/themes/mdm_veryplaintxt/style.css

To play with fonts:

• go to google fonts and find some cool ones
• adjust functions.php to load the new ones
• adjust style.css to use them; you should consider font family, size, and weight of at least these 4 things:

body
#content h2
pre
#sidebar ul

• restart apache!