My Mac was annoyingly slow for a couple weeks and I couldn’t figure out why. I did a little research and found out that having items in your Desktop folder significantly slows down your computer…and I had over 2,000 items in there. None of the items in there were useful, they primarily consisted of client…

I wrote a simple website scraping script to get a backup of a Heroku app’s Config Variables. Step 1: Load jQuery into the Chrome Console Check out our post on loading jQuery in the Chrome Console at https://blog.wplauncher.com/run-jquery-in-chrome-console/ Step 2: Pull out the Config Keys and Config Values associated with the Heroku Config Vars Now…

Here at wplauncher we create a BUNCH of live site previews using WordPress theme demo content. When setting up these WordPress theme demos, we often find ourselves importing sample Woocommerce products. This allows our customers to see how they can set up their own shop with one of the themes in our marketplace. In the…

I ran into this pesky error the other day while working on an ansible script and when I tried debugging the file (using yamllint.com) it pointed me to a completely different part of the .yml file (i.e. at line 2 column 1). But, the error actually existed much further down in the .yml file. Here’s…

I kept running into errors when I ran the following command: sudo apt-get install mariadb-server Here are some details of the error I was getting when trying to install the mariadb-server package to my ubuntu server. install ‘mariadb-server” failed: No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous…

An invalid WordPress RSS Feed could be caused by a number of issues. I’m going to point you to several troubleshooting options and the one in particular that worked for me. The thing to remember is that the issue is with the RSS feed, so you want to target files/functions within plugins and themes that…

I had a really difficult time figuring out the link to the Jobify RSS Feed that I needed to use to generate a Job Feed for my client’s WordPress site that runs the Jobify theme. The default WordPress RSS feed for custom post types worked to show all of the Jobify jobs on my client’s WordPress site but the…

I have the Google Translate widget on a client website and was looking for a way to prevent the translation from working on certain text on a page. In order to do this, I simply had to add the notranslate class to any element on the page that I don’t want to be translated by…

I recently came across a frustrating error whilst adding the Event On events calendar plugin and the Event On Weekly View add on to a client’s WordPress site. We purchased both the main Event On plugin and the Event On Weekly View add on. We were able to activate the main Event On plugin but…

I have gotten sick of relying on Google Chrome Extensions that don’t work very well and are security risks. So, I wanted to figure out how to get a full page screenshot in Google Chrome without Chrome Extensions. This is much easier than I expected. Generating full page screenshots in Chrome without extensions is a…