#!/bin/sh
 
BACKUP="/path/to/temp/dir/$$"
 
DAY=$(date +"%a")
 
### MySQL Setup ###
MUSER="root"
MPASS="your_root_password"
MHOST="localhost"
MYSQL="$(which mysql)"
MYSQLDUMP="$(which mysqldump)"
GZIP="$(which gzip)"
 
### FTP server Setup ###
FTPUSER="ftp_username"
FTPPASS="ftp_password"
FTPHOST="ftp_host"
 
mkdir -p $BACKUP
 
### Start MySQL Backup ###
# Get all databases name
DBS="$($MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS -Bse 'show databases')"
for db in $DBS
do
 FILE=$BACKUP/$(date +"%a")-$db.gz
 $MYSQLDUMP -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $db | $GZIP -9 > $FILE
 echo "Saving "$db" to "$FILE
done
 
### Dump backup using FTP ###
echo "Sending file via FTP"
 
ftp -ni $FTPHOST > /tmp/ftp.worked 2> /tmp/ftp.failed <<END_SCRIPT
quote USER $FTPUSER
quote PASS $FTPPASS
lcd $BACKUP
binary
mput *.gz
quit
END_SCRIPT
 
if [ -s /tmp/ftp.failed ] 
then
   echo "Problem while sendig file ... "
   cat /tmp/ftp.failed | mail -s "Problem while backup" yourmail@yourdomain.com
else
   echo "File sent successfully ... "
   echo "Deleting temporary backup direatory"
   echo $BACKUP
   rm -rf $BACKUP
fi

Once you have set the parameters and saved the file edit your cron for a nightly backup and add a line like

# FTP backup
0 2 * * * /path/to/your/file/do_backup.sh > /path/to/your/file/cron.log

If you are using it and you have whatever kind of problem or want to suggest something just leave a comment.

To make this plugin works you must install  ngx_cache_purge plugin from FRiCKLE Labs. Download it here.

After a bit of search I've found that you can specify the user for external resource by adding it before the domain with a @ so, for me the sintax was:

nextgen-gallery https://simone.fumagalli@nextgen-gallery.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Once you set up the SVN property give an update to the working folder and Eclipse will ask for the password.

SVN External with a different username in Eclipse

In many countries (like Italy) weeks start on Monday, so, I needed to change this beahvior. I thought I could change something in the "Settings" panel or in the Config file to achive this but I was wrong !

After a short searching I realized that I wasn't the only one with this problem, and I've also found this solution that works by shifting by one the day returned by wday_from_ts.

At the beginning everything seemed to works fine but I immediately realized that this hack effected also the result of tags connected to a date like <$mt:EntryDate$>. Basically instead of getting Sunday February 1th 2009 I was getting Saturday February 1th 2009, as you can imagine, this is quite a big problem, especially for a blog where date matters.

I started to look for another way to solve the problem and I realized that the only possibility was modify the function that handle the calendar tags.

The Solution

Open /lib/MT/Template/ContextHandlers.pm and modify these 2 lines from

my $pad_start = wday_from_ts($y, $m, 1);
my $pad_end = 6 - wday_from_ts($y, $m, $days_in_month);

to

my $pad_start_tmp = wday_from_ts($y, $m, 1);
my $pad_start = ($pad_start_tmp == 0) ? 6 : $pad_start_tmp - 1;
my $pad_end = wday_from_ts($y, $m, $days_in_month) + 1;

This is a small extension for NextGen Gallery, it allow you to specify which area NGG must use to generate the the thumbnail.

Quite often the thumbnails generated by NGG do not show the "right" part of the picture, this happen especially when you have a gallery with people, where you want to show in the thumb the face and not the belly.

Demo

Have a look here where you can see two galleries (same pictures) the first with the standard and the second with custom thumbnails.

Installation

First unpack the archive to the NGG root directory, then open manage-images.php and modify line 338 from

<img class="thumb" src="<?php echo $picture->thumbURL; ?>" <?php echo $thumbsize ?> />

to

<img class="thumb" id="thumb<?php echo $pid ?>" src="<?php echo $picture->thumbURL; ?>" <?php echo $thumbsize ?> />

and add this line at the end of nggallery.php

include_once (dirname (__FILE__)."/admin/custom_thumbnails.php");

Download

Here the package for the version 0.2 it ONLY works with WP 2.7 and NGG 1.0

Download Version 0.2

Screenshots

List with "Edit thumbnail" action

Popup for area selection

Perego under the snow

I found the plugin "Allow Embedded Videos" (http://wpmudev.org/project/Allow-Embedded-Videos) but still the button in the editor didn't show up.

Download it here