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A new domain name and a new theme

Posted on 05/12/2018 by Jouni Rinne

Got a long overdue proper domain name for this site instead of relying on a dynamic DNS service. The new URL is: figuregeek.eu Please update your bookmarks! Also, I had to change the theme. The old “Pixiv Custom”-theme looked really … Continue reading →

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Securing WordPress with Fail2Ban

Posted on 27/12/2013 by Jouni Rinne

On Christmas some bored Latvian (according to whois) ‘script kid’ decided to try-and-break into one of my WordPress installations with brute force login attempts. Not a problem as such, because I had already taken precautions against such attempts, but his … Continue reading →

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WordPress and NextGen gallery (in)compatibility

Posted on 24/12/2013 by Jouni Rinne

It seems that the NextGen 2.x picture gallery plugin for WordPress is not fully compatible with WordPress versions 3.7 and up. I had to downgrade NextGen to version 1.9.13 to make it work again. Apologies to anyone who has been … Continue reading →

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Replacing WordPress wp-cron with a cron job

Posted on 25/07/2012 by Jouni Rinne

There is a build-in feature in WordPress for scheduling various events, which is called wp-cron. For some reason or other it seems to work very sporadically, and in my case for backup scheduling, most of the time it didn’t work … Continue reading →

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