Different database connections in WordPress development environments

Posted on November 25, 2015, updated on November 26, 2016 by robst

Since I am using version control with GIT, I have set up different environments for my current WordPress/Magento-married project. For this project, I did not want to continue “cowboy coding”, so I set up a remote staging / testing / development site and multiple local development sites. Each site has its own purpose and needs its own MySQL database. So I had to handle different database connections in my WordPress installations. Well, I could work with only one DB,

Hide a single category in WordPress

Posted on March 13, 2013, updated on November 26, 2016 by robst

Recently, I was skimming through the WordPress Plugin Directory. I was looking for a plugin to hide a single category in WordPress, but doesn’t hide its posts. That plugin should only the category from the category listing beneath the (single) post and the sidebar. The reason is: I want to create an additional category that is listed nowhere in the frontend, but is still accessible from the category-archive page. Got that? ;-) No?

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Different database connections in WordPress development environments

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