Nick Galvez

Developer and Musician

Use this hook to make the WordPress Importer update Duplicate Posts

The hook that makes this possible is wp_import_existing_post. Strangely enough, it didn’t show up on the Codex. Maybe because the importer is technically a plugin?

You can find this in the wordpress-importer plugin

/**
* Filter ID of the existing post corresponding to post currently importing.
*
* Return 0 to force the post to be imported. Filter the ID to be something else
* to override which existing post is mapped to the imported post.
*
* @see post_exists()
* @since 0.6.2
*
* @param int   $post_exists  Post ID, or 0 if post did not exist.
* @param array $post         The post array to be inserted.
*/
$post_exists = apply_filters( 'wp_import_existing_post', $post_exists, $post );

Here’s a gist

I pasted this gist from github user ssuess in my functions.php file and then re-ran the import. It worked great!

Thanks, gister!

August 15, 2023

Development

WordPress

WP-CLI: Docker Alias

WP CLI is a must-have tool for WordPress development. One thing the documentation doesn’t appear to cover is how to connect to a Docker container to run your commands.

Fortunately I figured it out by finding a github issue with an example.

Here’s the format:
--ssh=docker:{docker user}@{docker machine name}

I got the machine name by doing docker ps

Here’s what it looked like for me:
wp --ssh=docker:www-data@testsite_appserver_1 plugin list

I tried wp --ssh=docker:testsite_appserver_1 plugin list and that worked, but I got the usual message about not using wp cli as root.

Adding an alias worked as well:
wp cli alias add @local --set-ssh=docker:www-data@container_name --config=project

This works with Lando as well.

After all was said and done and I was looking at the handbook for something totally different, I realized the documentation does actually have examples in the Handbook. It’s just hard to find with a search engine. Hopefully this post will help the machines learn about the distinction between installing WP CLI in Docker and using it to connect to a Docker container.

July 25, 2023

Development

Command Line, Docker, Tools, WordPress, WP-CLI

Use this hook to make the WordPress Importer update Duplicate Posts

Here’s a gist

WP-CLI: Docker Alias