1. log in to the MySQL: mysql -u root -p; 2. Select the database: use database_name; 3. List all users: select * from wp_users\G 4. Change the password for the user you require: UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass=MD5(‘new_password_here’) where ID=user_id_here;
I’ve been a WordPress user for over a decade and back at the beginning of my first WP blog (around 2010), I did a comparison between at the time most popular WordPress Caching plugins, and various caching methods: APC, XCache, and eAccelerator. Most of those plugins are long dead but some of their functions still … Read full article →
If you are using Softaculous backups you may notice that Softaculous backups also the cache folders (wp-content/cache and wp-content/litespeed) and backups created by WordPress backup plugins (wp-content/updraft & wp-content/ai1wm-backup). This significantly increases the size of Softaculous backup files. To exclude these folders from Softaculous backups SSH into your server and navigate to the following path: Copy … Read full article →
The AnonymousFox Hack guide by Sucuri misses a huge step in cleaning a hacked WordPress website, and that step is: removing the cronjobs While removing AnonymousFox malware from a website I noticed the following cron: It downloads a script from http://hello.hahaha666.xyz/xxxd and runs it, the script is: It creates a new folder css and replaces … Read full article →
If you want to disable comments in WordPress based on the user’s location, you can do so by using the following steps: Step 1. Install and activate the “GeoIP Detection” plugin. This plugin allows you to detect the user’s location based on their IP address. Step 2. Add the following code to your theme’s functions.php … Read full article →
The following code snippet will automatically generate Alt Text for all featured images from the Post Title. If you are looking for more settings, check the SEO Friendly Images plugin.
We recently made a list of the most useful WP-CLI commands with examples and how to fix the most common WPCLI errors but there are a lot of maintenance tasks that can be done with WP-CLI that We haven’t included in this list. One of those tasks is reinstalling WordPress Core using WP-CLI. Step 1. … Read full article →
Back in 2010 when I was starting my web development journey, having a website was expensive, especially on a high-school student budget. I had plenty of dumb ideas, and no money to realize all of them (thank God 🙏). So I was looking for shortcuts to save on a domain name and hosting. I will … Read full article →
WordPress.org has a list that explains the default and most commonly used wp-config.php constants. But there are many more constants that are not covered in this guide and can only be found when browsing the WordPress core itself. Here I will do my best to list all WordPress constants, and keep the list up to … Read full article →
The ability to copy/clone a post or a page in WordPress is a function that we would like to see added in future versions of WordPress CMS. Until then, we’ll have to rely on plugins. 🙂 Here are 5 of the most popular plugins for easily cloning and copying articles. Yoast Duplicate Post With over … Read full article →