Posts tagged: ssh

Set up a bare Git repository and post-receive hook on your server to deploy WordPress changes automatically on git push.

Use ps, top, kill and systemctl to find runaway PHP processes and manage Apache, MySQL and PHP-FPM on Linux servers.

Implement the Gitflow branching model for WordPress projects with feature, release and hotfix branches.

Master WP-CLI commands for search-replace, database export, plugin updates, thumbnail regeneration and cron management.

Understand 755/644/640 file permissions in Linux and fix WordPress directory permissions from the SSH command line.

Write a cron-scheduled bash script that backs up your WordPress files and database automatically every night.

Version control transforms the way WordPress projects are managed, and Git has become the universal standard for tracking code changes across the entire web development industry. Without version control, making changes to a live WordPress theme or plugin is a high-stakes guessing game: you modify a file, something breaks, and if you did not manually…

WordPress developers spend a significant portion of their time working on remote Linux servers: deploying code, diagnosing errors, managing files, and monitoring performance. Knowing a core set of Linux command-line tools removes the dependency on cPanel file managers, FTP clients, and hosting control panel dashboards — all of which are slower, less capable, and sometimes…

After adding an SSH key with ssh-add you might notice that after a system reboot you need to add it again. On most Linux distributions the SSH agent does not persist keys across sessions by default. The fix is to configure your SSH client to load the key automatically by adding an entry to the…