My post “Counting Post Views in WordPress without PlugIn” shows a way on how to count post views in WordPress. To see them, one have to either login to WordPress and have a look at the posts overview, or connect to the WordPress database and run SQL queries. The posts …
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After adding a post view counter to my blog (see “Counting Post Views in WordPress without PlugIn” for details), I noticed some strange view counts on one of the posts. From one day to another, the counter of this specific post jumped from about 200 to more than 12,500. And …
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When I noticed some (not successful) hacking attempts on this blog, I tried to install WordPress locally on a Windows 10 machine (and finally did). wpbeginner, like usually, offers a nice tutorial about how to install it including all other required applications (Web server, database, PHP runtime). Following this tutorial, …
When you create a virtual machine in Azure based on an existing image, you cannot define the size of the operation system disk. Unfortunately, you even can’t see what the disk size will be when you create the VM. I also was not able to find a table giving this …
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No, this is not the first post on how to count WordPress post views without a plugin. At the time of writing, I entered this post’s title in quotation marks at Google and there were about 4.5 million results. So I am really curious on how many views I will …
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Preparing this blog to become GDPR compliant, I wanted to customize the comment form to only ask for the comment itself, plus having a checkbox that the author agrees with the storage and handling of the data. In the background, the author’s IP address should not be stored any more. …
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Looking at Azure Storage Accounts a little bit in more detail, I noticed something that was surprising to me. Connecting to a storage account via the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (at least version 1.12.0 or 1.13.0) and looking at the content, I noticed a Blob Container named $logs and some …
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To try out new things in Microsoft Azure, but avoid to get charged for it, I find the Azure Learn Sandbox very useful. And there are two great extras for free: You do not have to worry to impact any production setups, and you don’t have to care about housekeeping …
As I do not share the opinion that testing of private methods is an anti-pattern (to me, it is essential to implement complete button-up tests), I tried to implement a private accessor based on my post Home-made Private Accessor for Visual Studio 2012+ for a .NET Core project. To my …
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Preface This post is from a developer for developers having, beyond others, a solid SQL knowledge and understanding. If you have the slightest doubt you might not be one of those, please do not follow the steps described below! Of course, if you know you are not a developer at …
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