Stephen R Guglielmo on 13 Jul 2017 15:13:20 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] The most pernicious bug in WordPress

I use wp-cli's search-replace command to do this. I often clone our prod wordpress db to non-prod and wp-cli is how I correct the DB.

You can't run a regular search/replace on the DB because data is stored serialized (another "why?!?!?"); wp-cli's handles this correctly.






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On Jul 13, 2017, 6:05 PM, CJ Fearnley < cjf@LinuxForce.net> wrote:

There were some frustrating moments in my day today.

They bubbled out in a tweet (am I the only one making strident angry
tweets?): https://twitter.com/cjfsyntropy/status/885592445945352193

To save you the click:

"@WordPress Why, oh why, do u store the hostname with absolute links in
the database? Creativity cannot deal w/ this pernicious bug!! FIX IT!"

I cannot change the hostname or location of a site if that data is hard
coded with absolute links that include the full hostname in the code or
in the database!

Isn't this web development 101 stuff?

I mean it is a basic data normalization issue, no?

Am I wrong here? Is this a quixotic mission fighting windmills?

Where should we file our complaints?

--
CJ Fearnley | LinuxForce Inc.
cjf@LinuxForce.net | IT Projects & Systems Maintenance
http://www.LinuxForce.net | http://blog.remoteresponder.net
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