WordPress supports the auto resizing of Post Editor, It’s helpful when your post content grows longer so that you don’t have to keep scrolling. You can use the same Auto resize WP Editor instance in a metabox or a widget.
If you’re using a custom instance of WP Editor with the help of wp_editor() function, you just need to pass a few additional arguments to enable this neat feature.
Here is the code to add a instance of WP Editor in a metabox with auto resizing turned on.
/* Define the custom box */
add_action( ‘add_meta_boxes’, ‘my_meta_box’ );
/* Do something with the data entered */
add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘custom_save_post_meta’ );
/* Adds a box to the main column on the Post and Page edit screens */
function my_meta_box() {
add_meta_box( ‘wp_editor_metabox’, ‘Metabox with Editor’, ‘wp_editor_meta_box’ );
}
/* Prints the box content */
function wp_editor_meta_box( $post ) {
// Use nonce for verification
wp_nonce_field( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ), ‘metabox_nonce’ );
/* When the post is saved, saves our custom data */
function custom_save_post_meta( $post_id ) {
// verify if this is an auto save routine.
// If it is our form has not been submitted, so we dont want to do anything
if ( defined( ‘DOING_AUTOSAVE’ ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE )
return;
// verify this came from the our screen and with proper authorization,
// because save_post can be triggered at other times
if ( ( isset ( $_POST[‘metabox_nonce’] ) ) && ( ! wp_verify_nonce( $_POST[‘metabox_nonce’], plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ) ) )
return;
// OK, we’re authenticated: we need to find and save the data
if ( isset ( $_POST[‘custom_meta’] ) ) {
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘custom_meta’, $_POST[‘custom_meta’] );
}
}
WSE Answer related to this: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/284112/auto-resize-when-writing-with-custom-post-wp-editor/284465#284465
They have a very poor firmware no matter how good is the hardware specially when it comes to compatibility with Chromecast. It gets so irritating that I had to revise the review. Their Customer support is not very helpful specially in India.
Verdict – 8/10
If you’re looking for a new router, you should definitely go for a AC Wireless standard router and ASUS RT AC55UHP is a good choice. It fits right into your budget if you need a good reliable wifi connection in a medium/large size apartment. It offers very good speed and a stable range over a large area across multiple walls.
With the 2 9dbi high power antennas it works flawlessly within a area of around 900 sqft ( Tested ) and penetrates well enough across 3 concrete walls on 2.4 GHz band. Internet speed over 5GHz wifi band is amazing considering the drop in speed is only 22% against LAN port, which easily varies from 30-50% for other expensive routers.
The highest speed you get on 5GHz channel is around 70 Mbps over wifi against the 92 Mbps over LAN/Ethernet port and the Upload speed goes upto 93 Mbps, which is same over ethernet port.
Cons: Over 2-3 day usage, nothing so far, just that the signal drop is significant If I put the router in a bit of corner, which is definitely same with all the routers because of interference.
Detailed Review:
I had to replace my old Netgear WNDR3400v3 – N600 Dual Band router, as I got a new 100 Mbps connection. The main reason for the upgrade was the poor speed and wifi range, I was ready to adjust a bit with speed, but the low wifi range made it totally unusable.
I tried Netgear WN3000RP-200INS wifi extender, but it was a total let down with multiple devices ( 5 ) connected to it, in terms of speed and range. After a lot of research I came down to 2 routers:
ASUS RT AC55UHP, was recommended by a friend, who was using a similar model.
WIFI Range
Let’s come down to the coverage map of the router, I’ve tested it over a area of around 900 sq ft.
WIFI coverage map in my apartment which is 750 sq ft including the adjacent apartment, which makes the total area of around 900 sq ft *Image credits at the end
For my old Netgear router, the wifi range was quite low just across the first wall, Asus outperformed with a good wifi range across 3 concrete walls offering a speed of upto 20 Mbps on 2.4 GHz, where 3rd wall being thicker in comparison to other two walls.
Here is a screenshot, comparing the wifi performance of 5Ghz band in same room, across first wall and across 2 walls.
5GHz Band: For 5Ghz band, wifi range drops significantly after two walls, but still I was able to get a download/upload speed of upto 40 Mbps.
2GHz Band: Wifi Range is quite good across 3 walls, and drops significantly after 4th wall.
Speed Test
LAN
ASUS RT AC55UHP offers a good speed over LAN port, I was getting a maximum of 87 Mbps over my existing router and Asus outperformed with a speed of 92.80/93.68 Mbps with a ping time of 2ms.
Speed test results over Ethernet
WIFI
With ref to the coverage map, here are the speed test results for 5GHz band across same room, single wall and multiple walls.
1. Speedtest Results in same room over 5GHz
D/L – 69 Mbps
U/L – 91 Mbps
2. Speed Test Results across single wall over 5GHZ
D/L – 57 Mbps
U/L – 56 Mbps
3. Speed Test results across 2 wall over 5GHz band.
D/L – 41 Mbps
U/L – 38 Mbps
Here are the speedtest results for 2.4 GHz band, the drop in Upload speed is because of the ISP and not the router:
1. Speed test results in same room over 2.4 GHzD/L – 32-33 MbpsU/L – 9-10 Mbps
2. Speed test results across single wall over 2.4 GHzD/L – 33 MbpsU/L – 8 Mbps
3. Speed test results across 2 walls over 2.4GHz bandD/L – 29 MbpsU/L – 9 Mbps
4. Speed test results across 3 walls over 2.4 GHzD/L – 21 MbpsU/L – 19 Mbps
Looking at the screenshots, speed over 5GHz in same room went upto 70 Mbps / 93 Mbps, and it dropped with each wall being introduced between the router and the device. With upto 2 walls, the Internet is reliable.
The lower band 2.4 GHz, offers a good range over speed, and the drop in speed is adjustable, considering, I was getting a 20Mbps speed in region 4 i.e across 3 walls.
* Seq. 1,2,3,4 in screenshots refers to the Speed Tests areas marked in wifi coverage map.
Router Placement
Make sure to keep the router in an open area and not a complete corner, and it should be 3-4 ft. above the ground, to get a better range. Because the signal drops rapidly if the router is in a complete corner. Antennas should be pointing in different directions.
That sums up the wifi coverage and speed of the router.
Inside the Box
You’ve your Asus Router, 2 9Dbi long Antennas, Ethernet cable, Power Adapter, support for Antennas to align them properly, Installation CD.
You won’t need the installation CD, unless you’ve to troubleshoot and re-install the firmware for some reason.
Router, Power Adapter, Ethernet Cable, 2 Dbi Antennas, Antenna Support/Aligner, Installation CD
Setup
Setting up this router is fairly easy, it automatically checks for type of Internet connection and prompts you for ISP login details, if required. You’ll need to update the firmware as soon as you get the Router, the latest one is 3.0.0.4.380.4180 released on December 29th, 2016.
Interface Login
Interface Home
Hardware
Asus RT-AC55UHP have a Qualcomm chipset, with 128 MB Flash and 128 MB RAM.
For further ref: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_RT-AC55UHP
Custom Firmware
As of now there is no custom firmware available for Asus RT-AC55UHP, but OpenWrt does have a build for Asus RT-AC55U
Apart from that, there a lot of other features like AiCloud, Firewall, support for VPN and a USB 3.0 port. I haven’t played with any of those yet.
Just make sure to register your product at Asus online, to avail the warranty.
Guetzli, is a recently Open Sourced JPEG encoder from google. I gave it a whirl to test out the performance/timing for image compression. I’ve tried out PNG->JPG, and JPG only compression with the default quality.
Install libpng and gflags, using apt-get install libpng-dev libgflags-dev.
Run make and expect the binary to be created in bin/Release/guetzli
The binary gets created in same directory inside bin/Release/
Run vim ~/.bashrc and go to the end of file, add export PATH=~/guetzli/bin/Release:$PATH and save it, where guetzli is your root folder name.
Performance:
I’ve tested out 5 of each PNG and JPEGs for the conversion on a Digital Ocean single core Ubuntu droplet with 500MB RAM.
PNG Optimisation:
Image Link Original Size Optimised Size Time
bees.png 177KB 37KB 0 m 16.372 s
( Orig | Optimised )
Old_Jewish_man.png* 49KB 195KB 16 m 5.397 s
( Orig | Optimised )
Render_Homer_8.png 218KB 146KB 0 m 59.611 s
( Orig | Optimised )
Winter-Is-Coming.png 1.3 MB 286KB 2 m 26.712 s
( Orig | Optimised )
Himalayas.png 546KB 265KB 4 m 52.428 s
( Orig | Optimised )
JPEG optimisation:
Image Link Original Size Optimised Size Time
100_5478.jpg 189KB 168KB 2 m 14.152 s
( Orig | Optimised )
Eiffel_Tower_Black_White.jpg 250KB 132KB 0 m 45.584 s
( Orig | Optimised )
taj-mahal-H.jpeg 473KB 153KB 2 m 44.823 s
( Orig | Optimised )
Leopard Wallpaper.jpg 699KB 596KB 11 m 35.742 s
( Orig | Optimised )
Kangaroo.jpg 270KB 237KB 3 m 42.517 s
( Orig | Optimised )
* For transparent PNGs, Guetzli automatically inserts a black background while converting them to JPGs, and the image size went 4x higher from 49KB to 195KB and it took 16 minutes for the conversion.
PNG to JPG optimisation is pretty damn good for images without alpha channel aka transparency. Though the time taken for a 177KB file size is 16s, which is way too slow considering if your site have got as low as 500 images, and out of which most of them would be at least above 500KB.
Same goes for JPG to JPG optimisation, a few images are reduced to half, where others got a savings of up to 100KBs. Though the time spent on optimisation is still very high for all of them.
Images for comparison:
PNG to JPG
Original Image
Optimised Image
JPG to JPG
Original Image
Optimised Image
Guetzli is quite time/resource consuming to be implemented in production. I was not able to optimise a 4MB image, as the process was killed every time.
I always keep googling for few of the git commands that I use on a small interval ( not very frequent ) and end up spending more time then I should be. So instead I’ve compiled a list of Git commands that are helpful in my project development, which might be useful for you as well. I’ll keep updating the list as and when I find something useful.
Clone a git repo ( or Checkout in terms of SVN ):
If it’s a private repo, you need to have your SSH keys added on server ( Github, Bitbucket or GitLab ) or you can use the https url to clone with your login details, for a public repo you need not to have SSH keys or login details, after that you can easily clone a git repo.
Navigate to a folder under which you want to clone the repo, and run the command.
Using SSH (If public keys have been added to server)
Thanks to the circumstances, where I was left with no option other than to complete the node script, I was able to learn a bit of node. ( Thanks to Saurabh Shukla for that 😉 )
Initially for the node script we opted for SQLite, considering it is lite and it’ll serve the basic purpose to handle the read and writes we required, a good db performance. But as the no. of concurrent users increased, it totally blew up. My node script stopped responding as it was waiting for database all the time.
What I concluded: Sqlite uses file for storing database, and each time I was making a read or write it locks the whole db slowing down the whole db performance. Thanks to one of my teammate Aaron, he suggested to switch to MySql.
And it seemed to work much better then sqlite, script was running without being choked for multiple simultaneous users.
But the happiness wasn’t long term, because I’m a newbie 😛 when it comes to database administration. As the database size increased it started slowing down again as I haven’t implemented table indexes, and I was relying only on my Primary Key for all SELECT queries.
As a result a single SELECT query would take upto 9s, 20s and so on. So I added indexes for all columns which were used in WHERE clause, but beware, more the number of indexes you use, more it’ll slow down inserts, as mysql updates the whole index after each query.
This kind of sorted out a whole lot of performance issues.
This is where I made a big mistake: Performance issue was resolved upto a big extent, but then I started facing trouble with some particular file names having special characters É, Ã as I was using a character set other then `utf8_unicode_ci`. I added the ALTER table query to the script and boom another problem solved. Happy Faces all around 🙂
Later on I increased the buffer pool size after reading about it on http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/27328/how-large-should-be-mysql-innodb-buffer-pool-size
And the last issue, after my db size grew over 1Gb, whenever I restarted my node request handler script, it’d take atleast 20 minutes, yeah minutes not seconds before mysql would start responding and I had to think before pushing changes, as it’d result in server downtime for that long. And it was all just because I was too careless or a noob :), to leave the Alter table query in the script, yeah.
So everytime I restart the script the whole 2Gb table would be modified, taking half an hour or more, and it’ll keep the tables lock for all that period, resulting into non responding server. And removing those queries solved the whole slowing down on node server restart.
Right now, I’m bit relaxed, unless I encounter another mistake of my own 😉
About Mysqlite, I think if I have used indexes in sqlite, it would have been scalable enough.
If you are encountering any such issues, you can always check MySql slow query log or if you are using PHPMyAdmin, you can always check the current query being executed and if it is holding the lock over the table, blocking other queries or you can simply login to your mysql console and run the query SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST\G
Checking the slow queries in PMA
For updated PMA:
If you have any other method to tune Mysql database for performance, drop it in comments, I’d love to hear it.
I’m already planning to implement Table compression and partitioning, after I read them thoroughly.
I have been working in Node.js for past few months, and I’ve experienced that finding the right solution for Node.js takes some time, as relatively, there is less reference out there for Node.js, compared to other programming languages.
So if you are new and working over a Node.js application, you’d probably need to get and post data. There are plenty of references out there demonstrating get request, but very few for post request. To help you out, here is an example of http post request in Node.js
You can easily install the querystring package using npm install querystring. Also don’t forget to create a package.json file for your node application as it helps to setup faster on a new server, if in case you have to move things.
Update:
After working for few days, as the number of GET and POST request increased, it became too tough to continue the script running for few hours. It exits with ‘EMCONNECT’ or ‘EMFILE’, leaving me frustrated with no solution.
After trying the node’s core http package and request library, I had to switch to Hyperquest, which does helps to a large extent.
Well to be honest, I’ve never even tried using MAMP because I never felt to use it, so I can’t give you Pros or Cons of MAMP.
I’ve recently switched to Vagrant with Easyengine – A good alternative to manual WordPress setup and things are so easy for site development over a Mac that I never felt the need of MAMP. However I’ve been reading the Pros and Cons of Vagrant over MAMP, you can refer it on From MAMP to Vagrant
Once you are done settings up the Vagrant and the Easyengine, the whole WordPress site setup takes less than a minute (On a 8Mbps Connection) or few seconds (On Digital Ocean server), as the only time Easyengine takes, is to download the WordPress and rest of the setup is so breezy. It is really handy for WordPress Developers.
Easyengine uses Nginx server and not Apache, which is considered to better in terms of performance. There are lots of site management options for a production server, you can get all the details on their site : https://rtcamp.com/easyengine/
While working on 2Checkout API recently, I found it very time consuming to setup a 2Checkout developer or sandbox account, as I couldn’t find any proper steps to setup a developer account. Although the 2Checkout guy was really helpful to point me out in right direction.
So it might help you if you are setting up a developer account.
For developer account you need not to sign up for a live account, you just need a sandbox account.
You can signup for a developer account at 2Checkout Sandbox Site
After signing up, you just need to go to dashboard
Go to API section, accept their terms and agreements and click over start integrating, after that you’ll be able to access the private key, public key and the demo card details.
For using their API you need to create a new user having API access only, they don’t allow to use admin user for API calls. You can go to User Management section to create a new API user.
After you are done with creating user, you’ve to setup the site settings, Keep the demo settings off or to parameter only, If the demo settings is turned on the API calls don’t get recorded and you won’t be able to fetch any test sale details.
Under the checkout options select the URL option you need, after the user has made the payment.
Secret word is used to authenticate the response received from 2Checkout after payment.
I’ve been working in WordPress for more than a year, developing custom Themes and Plugins.
Ajax is commonly used in each of them. In general, most of us use
json_encode()
for returning JSON response in WordPress.
Wordpress 3.5 release introduced new functions for sending JSON responses:
These functions send a JSON response back to an AJAX request, whether successful or error, and die().
Well, you’ be wondering why to use them and I’d say there is no harm in following the WordPress standards. Also, I never knew that I’ve to set the headers too, until now, which I came to know from these functions.
courtesy: Faishal
