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“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.” ~Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.

... friendship, sex and reading, and the best of the three is reading. ~Suggested by Michel de Montaigne .

I just wrote this bash shell script to delete all pending/spam/trash comments from WordPress (Single or Multisite) using WP-CLI: Put the script inside your WordPress root and run: $ ./clean_comments.sh These are available statuses of a comment: approve : approved comments hold : pending comments spam : spams trash : comments in the trash bin This is pretty neat huh?!

To remove both leading and trailing spaces of a string in bash shell, you can do like following: mytext=' This is a test ' trimed_text="$(echo -e "${mytext}" | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//')"

One of the big problem when you migrate your WordPress blog to another server with a new domain name is the media gallery. What happened to me was even though I had already moved all the photos (media) to the new location but nothing showed up in the Media dashboard and all the gallery shortcode in posts were broken. I figured out earlier today that I need to update the media links or attachments attribute when I importing the old data (exported WXR file). Here is the step-by-step detail: (I'm doing this for my multisite WordPress) 1. In the old WordPress: Export old blog data (Tools > Export > select All Content > press Download Export File). You will have a xml file. 2. Copy over all the photos from the old WordPress to the new one. For example: Old: /var/www/oldblog/wp-content/blogs.dir/777/ New: /var/www/newblog/wp-content/uploads/sites/777/ 3. Open the export file using a text editor. Search and replace the old media path with the new one. For example: Ol...

I got this error this morning when trying to test my Django app: Internal Server Error: /staff/acts/email/ Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/path/to/virtualenv/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response     response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)   File "/path/to/virtualenv/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py", line 22, in _wrapped_view     return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)   File "/path/to/app/views.py", line 519, in email_main     confirm_sent = send_email(confirm_email_form, 'confirm', request)   File "/path/to/virtualenv/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py", line 21, in _wrapped_view     if test_func(request.user): AttributeError: 'EmailTemplateForm' object has no attribute 'user' I figured out the reason causing this issue is...

iframes in iOS devices behave a little bit strange as you all knew. The content displays outside of the iframe. There are many way to fix that issue, here is a quick one: Just replace the iframe tag with  embed and everything will be fine. <embed src="..." type="text/html" ...></embed> Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10528760/iframe-content-is-displaying-outside-the-iframe-on-ios

This is a pretty neat python snippet I wrote to read an Excel (xlsx) file and convert its data into a list of dictionaries: Note: you need to install the openpyxl module before you can use the snippet $ sudo pip install openpyxl So, you can use the snippet as following: >> from excel_utils import excel_to_dict >> data = excel_to_dict('/path/to/excel/file.xlsx', ['col1', 'col2', 'col3']) >> data[0] {'col1': u'Genius',  'col2': u'Super',  'col3': u'Awesome'} Cool huh? Reference:   https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter12/

To see your Windows 7 machine's product key you can run this script (as an Administrator): Quite handy huh?

It's pretty cool using MOOSH command line tool of Moodle. You can set course format to topics for multiple cources in Moodle by running this command: moosh course-config-set category 7 format topics Just awesome!!! Reference: http://moosh-online.com/commands/