The pipe ( | ) and tilde ( ~ ) separators are removed from Yoast SEO plugin 17.1. It was done because Google routinely alters these symbols in search results, according to Yoast: https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-17-1 To add these separators back to yoastSEO plugin, simply add the following inside your active theme function.php file: and under Search … Read full article →
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that will display your current Slack status: 🔴 Offline or 🟢 Online Note: To use the Slack API, you will need to create a Slack app and obtain an API token. You can find more information on how to do this in the Slack API documentation: https://api.slack.com/authentication/token-types#bot. Generate API … Read full article →
Here is how to add table indexes, keys, and auto_increment fields to WordPress core database tables. These commands will fix the following database errors caused by missing primary keys: ⚠️ NOTE: Before running any of the following commands make sure to create a backup of the database. This commands will only fix your WordPress Core … Read full article →
If you want to disable comments in WordPress based on the user’s language, 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 language based on their IP address. Step 2. Add the following code to your theme’s functions.php … Read full article →
Useful WP-CLI commands that I use when cleaning hacked WordPress websites in order to reinstall WP core, all themes, and plugins from WordPress.org
After upgrading WP to 6.0 the Edit post page is blank with the following errors in Chrome dev tools: I’ve disabled all plugins and reverted to the default 2022 theme, but the problem continues. After examining the files in question, I discovered that they were being utilized by the Gutenberg editor, so I temporarily disabled … Read full article →
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that will create a [activeplugin] shortcode: Add it as plugin and activate, then add shortcode [activeplugins] anywhere on your website and it will display all active plugins:
If you used shortcodes from a certain plugin or a theme and then stop using either one, then chances are that you still have shortcodes that no longer translate into anything. In this guide We will be using WP CLI Shortcode scrapper package to find all shortcodes in the database. This command works by searching … Read full article →
Here is a small snippet that you can add to your functions.php file to show different menus to logged-in users in WordPress. In this example 5 is the menu ID of the menu shown to logged-in users and 6 is the ID for the menu shown to guests. So, create two menus and copy their … Read full article →
In this example, we’ll use the is_user_logged_in() to display a different theme on our website for visitors: if(is_user_logged_in()) { function wpxss_set_my_custom_theme() { //replace your theme name here return ‘your-theme-name’; } add_filter( ‘template’, ‘wpxss_set_my_custom_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, ‘wpxss_set_my_custom_theme’ ); } else { // leave the default theme active for visitors } The template and stylesheet filters are responsible to select the activated … Read full article →