Upon launching a new docker-compose setup, my Dockerfile suddenly had issues installing some packages, showing errors like: It took me some time to figure out what was happening, but this Medium post got me in the right direction. Somehow, when building, docker fails to run DNS queries. Debugging: what causes this? We can test the […]

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I don’t think it ever took me so long to fix a permission issue in a WordPress development environment. I checked my docker-compose file. I logged into to the containers to confirm I could write as the web user. It was all good. The issue? There was a database entry that defined a custom path […]

Need an SSH keygen quickly? Here’s the command for you. Copy this, and add your e-mail address after like this: “email@domain.com” (with quotation marks) Full command: After, you can just hit the “ENTER” key a couple of times, unless you want to set passphrases for your keys. (this is usually only the case for high […]

Every single time I open a new project VS Code asks me if I trust the authors. It’s kind of annoying, since in 99% of the cases I am the author. Aside from that, it requires me to click a button with my mouse. Disable author check Luckily, it’s possible to disable this author check: […]

I literally got used to Visual Studio code highlighting function names from WordPress core when working in environments that don’t include the WordPress Core files. Quite disturbing actually – especially when you have code sniffers setup and follow WordPress Coding Standards. Well, today I noticed it again and did some research. Apparently, there’s an easy […]

Error: Failed to get current SQL modes. Reason: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (13) In the example above, I couldn’t get wp db import (WP CLI) to import a database since a different mysql.sock was used. The solution We can use the mysql command to import the database […]

Sometimes your terminal environment (where you SSH into) uses a different PHP version then that you need. Most hosting companies do have several PHP versions available. But how do you use them, and more importantly, how do you set the right one when deploying new versions with Deployer? The errors you can run into In […]