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Use Perl Mechanize and LWP to Scrape Site Data

Use Perl Mechanize and LWP to Scrape Site Data

LWP is a great module for scraping data. This script demonstrates how to parse a website using Mechanize and LWP

Perl Script to Test URI Status

Perl Script to Test URI Status

The purpose of this Perl script is for base-lining multiple websites and generating a before and after report.

How to Delete Wordpress Revisions (Correctly)

How to Delete WordPress Revisions (Correctly)

There is an easy way to delete wordpress revisions but is it the correct way? This article explores the wordpress revision feature. Wordpress Revisions MySQL is the typical database that most servers running wordpress use. Mysql can handle 20 million records without too much of an issue. More important than the number of records are how they ...

Remove Duplicate Featured Image With CSS

Remove Duplicate Featured Image With CSS

After a few plugins that didn’t work, and an otherwise beautifully clean theme, I ended up removing the duplicate featured image from wordpress with the following CSS: