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When migrating from WordPress to Astro, one encounters various challenges.
One is handling the WordPress “More” tag, which originates from the More Element in the WordPress Block Editor.
After converting the WordPress export to Markdown, you will find `<!– more –>` tags in your content. These tags serve as delimiters in WordPress, allowing you to define where the excerpt ends on listing pages.
Continue reading “A WordPress-like More Tag in Astro”If you’ve ever shared a link on social media, you know how critical OpenGraph (OG) images are. They’re the first thing people see – often before they even click.
Static OG images are fine as a start, but what if you want custom images for every blog post or content collection item?
For Astro there is astro-og-canvas, a nice and useful Astro plugin that utilizes Canvas to create dynamic OG images.
In this post, I’ll walk you through how to generate dynamic OG images for your Astro site, inspired by Aidan Kinzett’s excellent post.
I’ll also share some odds and learned lessons.
Yazi is my preferred terminal file manager, and these are my five essential plugins that improve my workflow.
The Yazi package manager ya will be used to install the plugins mentioned below, which is shipped with Yazi.
For the installation of necessary terminal tools, I will use brew, since I am currently on OSX. For Linux use the equivalents like apt.
Continue reading “5 Essential Plugins for Yazi File Manager”Using Web Components in Astro wasn’t as straightforward as expected. Here’s an example showing how to integrate the obfuscate-link web component into an Astro project.
First, add the Obfuscate-Link web component to the project:
npm install obfuscate-link-web-component
Deployer is a great tool to deploy your PHP Project.
Deployer executes a set of commands on the target server to build your project and enable the newly built version. A typical deployment process with Deployer involves SSHing into the target machine, where it performs a Git checkout of the project, installs dependencies via Composer, runs build commands, and possibly triggers some database migrations. When everything is successful, it will symlink the webroot to the new release.
On some servers, however, there are limitations that make this process unfeasible. For instance, you can’t install Composer, Git isn’t available, the CLI PHP version is different and can’t be changed, or certain asset-building processes aren’t possible because Node.js isn’t installed. This is often the case with shared hosting.
Continue reading “Deploy local build with Deployer7”I had the task the other day to use a headless chrome to generate PDF files from websites in a PHP app.
The plan was to use chrome-php with a headless chrome to generate the PDF.
Usually you would install chrome/chromium on a linux server via apt and just run chrome from the PATH with chrome.
Since i was on shared hosting i was not sure if this was possible since i was not allowed to run apt commands.
So i tried to use Puppeteer which ships a headless chrome executable and use just this directly.
I installed Puppeteer with npm locally and uploaded the chrome executable to the shared hosting.
Puppeteer will place the headless chrome in the .cache dir in your home directory, f.e.:
~/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux-113.0.5672.63/chrome-linux64/chrome
Upload:
scp -r ~/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux-113.0.5672.63/chrome-linux64 me@sharedhosting:/usr/home/test
I replaced another CMS powered site with an Astro powered static site the other day.
Here is why:
Having a docker-compose setup which involves a Database like Mysql or MariaDB, then at some point you might want to import data into those Databases.
There are several ways to import the data in your docker-compose setup.
So let’s see how we can do this:
Continue reading “Import data into MySql with docker-compose”We follow the PHP community and are now also Mastodon! Yay!
Follow us here: https://phpc.social/@nerdpress_org
All our Blog posts will be announced there as on Twitter.
Since we blog a lot about PHP in general and Symfony in particular https://phpc.social seems like a good choice for us as our Mastodon instance.
Continue reading “Nerdpress on Mastodon”Are you annoyed of too many deprecation warnings in you logs of your symfony app?
Probably yes because it is really a lot of noise.
However deprecation logs are still useful to ensure future compatibility of your app.
So since version 5.1 symfony will log deprecations to a dedicated log channel when it exists and ships with this monolog config:
monolog:
channels:
- deprecation # Deprecations are logged in the dedicated "deprecation" channel when it existsCode language: PHP (php)This is added already in the recipe and ships when installing symfony.
Ok, but the handler for this deprecation channel is not configured, so you have to do this yourself.
How? Add this to your monolog config: