Category Archives: Wordpress

Script to remove all drafts from WordPress

If you use a RSS feed aggregator for wordpress, you could end up with quite a few drafts that you will never use and need to remove. There are plugins for WordPress that will take care of this issue for you, however from my experience, they tend to be slow and can time out. In [...]

Bash script to remove unused WordPress tags

If you use an autotagging plugin in WordPress and you remove some posts, you may have tags left over in your database that are no longer being used. Since I’ve had that problem and couldn’t find a plugin to do what I wanted, I decided to write a script to remove those. You can see [...]

RandomLinux.com’s Easy WordPress password changer

We here at RandomLinux.com like to make things easy for users, so we created this script to make it easy to recover your WordPress dashboard password if you have lost it and are not able to recover it.  Head over to our forum and give it a try and give us some feedback.  Feature requests [...]

Change WordPress password from the command line

If you forget the login to the WordPress dashboard and the “forgot your password” link isn’t working for you, it is possible to change it from the command line. First, you will want to find the database that WordPress is using, so go to the folder that holds it, and get that from the wp-config.php [...]