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Moving posts from one site to another in WordPress

Migrating content from one WordPress site to another is considered a daunting task. Most people resort to copying the content from each of the posts and pages, over to the new site. They would also need to copy details like post author, timestamp and comments. This method will take too long if there are many posts. Also the comments would list the author name as the person who adds it to the new site. Others would probably copy the same from the old database to the new one. This requires some basic technical knowledge about MySQL, and also how WordPress stores its data. We may want to copy the posts from one site to another for various purposes. Either we could have changed the domain, or maybe we have revamped an existing site and need the content to be moved to the new site. It is just two steps away! : Export and Import The solution to this is provided by WordPress itself, and it isn't as scary as you would expect.  WordPress comes with a built-in “Export” tool, and an

THE SWIFTMAILER INTEGRATION FOR THE YII 2 FRAMEWORK

Installation of Swiftmailer The preferred way to install this extension is through composer. Either run below code in composer php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer or add code to the require section of your composer.json. "yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer": "~2.1.0" Note: Version 2.1 of this extensions uses Swiftmailer 6, which requires PHP 7. If you are using PHP 5, you have to use version 2.0 of this extension, which uses Swiftmailer 5, which is compatible with PHP 5.4 and higher. Use the following version constraint in that case: "yiisoft/yii2-swiftmailer": "~2.0.0" Send Mail via SMTP from Yii2 Basic Open the configuration file /config/web.php and add your email credentials in array element inside components as shown below: <?php $params = require(__DIR__ . '/params.php'); $config = [      //...      'components' => [          'mailer' => [              'clas

HOW TO CREATE CUSTOM REST WEB API FOR MAGENTO 2

This is an introductory overview of how to extend the Magento 2’s API so that you may better meet your business requirements. We will build a new module to add a new REST web service to Magento’s API. This tutorial will cover two simple functions –  getCatalogProductCount()  and  getCategoryProductCount()  to demonstrate: a GET method a POST method with input different levels of access control for security Step 1) Module Creation Let’s create our new module at  app/code/Demac/WebService . Populate  etc/module.xml  with the following to declare your module: <? xml version = " 1.0 " ?> < config xmlns : xsi = " http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " xsi : noNamespaceSchemaLocation = " urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd " > < module name = " Demac_WebService " setup_version = " 0.0.1 " /> </ config > Next, we’ll need to ensure that our module is registered within the Magento fr