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Manage Databases and Users in MySQL

You create users and databases with the CREATE command and delete them with the DROP command. Delete databases and users: Create databases and users: Change the user’s password: Add permisions to the user for the database: Keep in mind that…

Change PHP Upload Size

To change the PHP maximum upload size, you need to edit the php.ini file and then restart the webserver. Depending on your Linux distribution, the php.ini will be located at a different location:CentOS / Red Hat: / Debian: …

Set Image Sizes in WordPress

add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ ); set_post_thumbnail_size( 610, 610, true ); // sets the default featured image dimensions. add_image_size( ‘theme-blog-vertical’, 405, 500, true ); add_image_size( ‘theme-blog-small-square’, 300, 300, true );

Install Samba on Ubuntu 20.04

Samba allows you to share your files with your Windows, Linux, Chrome OS computers, etc. It’s not really part of LAMP but for a development server it’s nice to have it. 1. Let’s install it 2. Edit the configuration file…

tar – The ZIP for Linux

tar is like the zip for Linux. It has just too many options / parameters. You need to know 2 combinations, one to create an archive and the other to extract files from an archive. If you want to learn…

Install MySQL 8 on Ubuntu 20.04

This is really easy. 1. Update UbuntuAn update is always a good thing 2. Install MySQL 3. Secure it (remove some test users, etc.) 4. And test it That’s it.

Chromebook Keyboard Shortcuts

You have a Chromebook and you seem to be missing lots of keys? Don’t worry. In a few days you’ll get by without any problems using a few keyboard shortcuts: ctrl + alt + / – Display all shortcuts alt…