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September 20, 2024

SVG Dark Mode

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Recently I came across a challenge of a changing SVG icon colours on carkmode. The SVG was a logo exported from Adobe Illustrator. [Profile 1.1, Fonts converted to outlines, 5 decimal places, CSS properties in Style elements]. The SVG definition looked something like the following The full SVG was AIIMS
December 3, 2023

Traefik Reverse Proxy 2.10.3

Running the traffic reverse proxy led to some issues with iFrames. Further there were issues due to depreciated settings in configuration..yml. There I have updated the configurations as follows traefik docker-compose.yml Dynamic Configuration TOML The Key changes Using the middleware in a Wordpress container Folder structure for Wordpress container uploads.ini
June 21, 2023

WP CLI Update Issues

Recently when trying to update Wordpress using WP CLI I ran into two errors Permisssions Issue The Default installation of Wordpress on ubuntu is executed under www-data user its Apache its the web server being used. Running update with sudo asa well ass without sudo is likely to yield error.
September 11, 2021

Checking Dark Mode User and System Preferences in Real-time

When enabling dark mode on a website usiing say TailwindCSS using a CSS "dark" , there are two preferences in play System Setting of "Prefers Dark Color Scheme"User preference of a dark mode scheme for the site The user preference will trump the system preference. Also, if tehre is no
July 12, 2021

REDIS with WordPress

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-redis-on-ubuntu-18-04https://www.combell.com/en/help/kb/how-to-implement-redis-in-wordpress/https://blog.runcloud.io/redis-object-cache/#how-to-install-redis-object-cache-using-redis-object-cache-wordpress-pluginhttps://wp-rocket.me/blog/redis-full-page-cache-vs-nginx-fastcgi/  Steps Wordpress configuration POSITIONING IS IMPORTANT. It should be just after DB_COLLATE line  WORDPRESS PLUGINS Install the following plugins:  Redis Object Cache - https://wordpress.org/plugins/redis-cache/other_notesQuery Monitor by  Author: John Blackbourn
April 23, 2021

Apache PHP 7.4 WordPress Setup

Apache PHP 7.4 Wordpress SALTs SSL SITE Database Connections APACHE Site Config file CAUTION - BELOW ARE ADVANCED SETTINGS THAT MAY BREAK SITE Better Apache using MPM_WORKER Apache HTTP comes with three different MPM: Pre-fork: Isolated, singular new process for each incoming connection: a safe way to run applications -
December 29, 2020

Google Apache mod_pagespeed

Instructions on Usage: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module Installation
December 29, 2020

OpCache WordPress

Wordpress Settings PHP.ini Settings OPCACHE GUI FOR WORDPRESS Install the plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/flush-opcache/ OPCACHE GUI FOR GENERIC SITES Apache Enablement Access OPCache statistics on Local IP
May 2, 2020

Nginx, PHP, WordPress

Install Nginx and PHP-FPM PHP 7.2 FPM Install Wordpress Configure NGINX Complete Wordpress Installation
April 3, 2020