After upgrading an old WordPress site’s Ubuntu version from 18.04 to 20.04 and changing PHP from 7.4 to 8.0 we found that the Cron jobs weren’t running. When we looked in in /var/log/syslog we found some errors about wp-cli when the job was trying to run. We could reproduce the error with a wp-info like... » read more
After upgrading our DigitalOcean droplet from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver), all https traffic suddenly failed, with a ‘website took too long to respond‘ error. Background: we had an old WordPress site running Bedrock that was proving impossible to move from its 16.04 server, so we decided to upgrade it-situ instead. On DigitalOcean... » read more
We’re going to use an ACF and a little bit of PHP. Let’s add an ACF custom field to keep a count of views on any post, add this to your code: Okay, now we need a PHP function to increment the post views field when we view it. This could go in your single.php... » read more
We upgraded Entity framework in a .NET Core project to 7.0 and suddenly inserts into a SQL Table were no longer working – nothing got inserted and there was no error. Let’s check the breaking changes document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/what-is-new/ef-core-7.0/breaking-changes SQL Server tables with triggers or certain computed columns now require special EF Core configuration Old behaviorPrevious... » read more
Upgrading an Azure .NET web app from 4.6 to 4.8 and when we published the staging version it worked, but the the identical site but with different database references threw this great error when it deployed. This is after removing some old compiler packages like Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform that are no longer required, during the upgrade. It... » read more
During a painful switch from .NET Framework 4.6 to 4.8 I encountered this error: This comes from AutoMapper and it seems that at some point (version 8.0) that things changed which we can find in their pleasantly useful documentation. To save you the trouble here’s the links: In my case I had two changes: First... » read more
Updating a .NET website from 4.6 to 4.8 and after updating all the packages in Visual Studio’s package NuGet Package manager, I got the following warning that wouldn’t go away: Following that link https://docs.nuget.org/docs/workflows/reinstalling-packages it suggested updating your packages would fix it, which it didn’t for me. So then I tried re-installing each package in... » read more
We upgraded an Azure .NET web app to use .NET 6.0 instead of 4.6.2, in itself something of a task for this app. But when we then tried to deploy it to Azure, GitHub failed on the build with dotnet stage: So this is clearly a problem with the deployment .yml, since we changed the... » read more
In an old WordPress installation I discovered 32,000 spam entries that has been collecting over the years in the Flamingo add on plugin that stores Contact Form 7 entries. I just wanted to delete everything and start again, from what I read, an uninstall doesn’t remove the entries and there’s no way we can do... » read more