IF you use the same commands often you can save them as aliases so that you have them always available. For example, the following commands will check if WP core, installed plugins and themes have updates available: You can combine the commands into a one-liner: and you can create an alias for this command: so … Read full article →
In this post, I will be using 3 free tools to scan WordPress websites for vulnerabilities. NAME PLATFORM HOW TO USE LIMITS WPScan Windows & Linux terminal free plan: 25 reports daily WPSEC website online free plan: 20 scans daily Burp Suite Windows & Linux application ∞ 1. From the terminal: WPScan If you have … Read full article →
WordPress.com has a list of all the blocks that are available inside the Gutenberg editor, and for self-hosted WordPress websites you can run the following command in the browser console when using the editor to get a list of all available blocks. The output:
To change Post published date each time it is viewed, we can use the the_post action hook that gets fired every time a post is set up in the global $post variable. Here’s an example code snippet that you can add to your theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin: Changing the post timestamp each … Read full article →
Here is a simple code snippet that you can add to your theme functions.php file to show the “last updated” date in your posts. A new line will be added to the beginning of the post content if the last modified and published time is different:
In this article, we’ll add the next and previous links on a WordPress theme. First We declare the previous and next variables: Then to show them inside the post, add the following snippets to the theme’s single.php file: If you want to further customize the links and maybe even display post name inside the links, … Read full article →
Here is an example of a simple WordPress plugin that uses a shortcode to display a list of files from the WordPress repository on GitHub: <?php /* Plugin Name: List WordPress Core Files Description: Displays a list of files from the WordPress repository on GitHub. */ function wpfl_shortcode_handler( $atts ) { // Parse shortcode attributes … Read full article →
Missing a temporary folder. WordPress error can be caused for multiple reasons: How to fix this error: 1. Enable required extensions Check if required extensions are enabled in Tools > Site Health: If they are not, enable them from cPanel > PHP Selector 2. Check wp-config.php for WP_TEMP_DIR Check if a custom path for file … Read full article →
This is a simple solution to automatically change the copyright year in the WordPress footer, using the date(). php function and specifying just Y will display the current year. I use it on this site:
Here is an example of a simple WordPress plugin that uses the [phpinfo] shortcode to display PHP information similar to what the phpinfo() function does: <?php /* Plugin Name: PHP Info Shortcode Description: Displays PHP information using the [phpinfo] shortcode. */ function phpinfo_shortcode_handler( $atts ) { // Build the HTML for the data $html = … Read full article →