Some free software for you all! (THAT I WROTE)
I recently added a couple of pages to my site with some free software for you to download.
The first is a plugin for WordPress called Sandbox Relocator which makes working in a sandbox or staged environment easier. No more hacking the database each time you sync your test copy with the live version.
The second is a plugin for Pidgin called Always Accept which lets you receive files auto-accept style from anyone, like how the official AIM client and Trillian do it, not just from people who are on your buddy list that you’ve approved, which is how the Pidgin bundled Auto Accept plugin does it.
Thank me later…
October 13th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Hey Ben XO, hate to sound like a complete noob here but is the Sandbox Relocator to be used with a local or remote test copy?
Not too sure how to use it…
October 13th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Heya. Here’s how I use it.
1) Install it on the live copy and activate it.
2) Make a copy of your live copy back to your sandbox copy (be that on a remote test server or a local test server). Obviously now the plugin is on both test and live now.
3) Clone the live database on to your sandbox / test copy. (This is why you activated it on live: so that it’s activated on test too).
4) Visit http://www.yourtestcopy.whatever/wp-login.php (this is the step that makes the plugin do it’s magic)
5) Use the test copy for your evil experiments.
Then, in the future, you can make clones of the database from the live copy whenever you like, and all you have to do after each one is visit /wp-login.php once.
October 13th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Just to double check, I add this line:
define(’RELOCATE’, ‘true’);
to wp-config.php right? With the quote marks outside of true right? Because the ‘’s were not included in the little intro written in the plugin itself and all the other lines in wp-config had quote marks around the second word in the define lines (yes I’m PHP noob LOL!
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I’m trying it out now
October 13th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
i don’t think you actually need quote marks around the word ‘true’. TRUE (and also FALSE) is a special PHP key word. But honestly, it doesn’t matter, it should work with either: the plugin (and wordpress wp-login.php) is only checking to see IF it is defined at all, not what it’s defined to be.
October 13th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
just don’t write define(’RELOCATE’, false); because that will just confuse everyone.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Ahhh okay gotcha… unfortunately I’m going to have to put this off till tomorrow cuz I think my hosting helpdesk is messing around with my htaccesses right now trying to help me fix a hotlinking problem
So my pages are going all wonky, suddenly lost my txt blog for no reason!
Thanks for all your help! Really appreciate it
October 13th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
that’s alright sir.
October 14th, 2007 at 4:43 am
WOW it worked! This is GREAT! Many many thanks!