💡 WordPress plugins are a piece of software that extends and expands the functionality of your WordPress site.
Here you can find up-to-date tutorials for the most popular WordPress plugins.
AJAX enables tasks such as fetching, inserting and deleting records from a MySQL database, as well as file uploading. AJAX sent URL should be admin-ajax.php. wp_ajax action hooks. Here are well-explained tutorials from Yogesh Singh on how to send AJAX requests from a WordPress theme and a WordPress plugin:
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that will automatically add the post title as the alt tag to featured images and other images in the post content improving traffic from search engines. Simply install & activate the and it will automatically add Alt Tag to images in new posts. <?php /** * Plugin Name: Auto Alt … Read full article →
Text alone is not enough to fully catch the attention and deliver value for your website’s visitors. People want to get the information fast and clear. Videos are good ways for catching the attention and get people stay longer at your website. So, let’s find out what are the best WordPress video plugins that allow … Read full article →
Like many other scripts, WordPress also uses PHPmailer to send transactional emails. If no email is set for sending emails, WordPress will use the default cPanel email account ([email protected]) which isn’t pretty. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an industry-standard for sending emails. Proper SMTP configuration helps increase email deliverability by using authentication. To specify … Read full article →
At the time of writing this article (December 03.2022), PHP8 is no longer actively supported and will only receive security support for the next 1 year. New PHP versions offer better optimization and security, but not all plugins, themes, or even WordPress itself is NOT fully compatible with PHP 8.0 How to force your WordPress … Read full article →
WordPress uses transients to temporarily store data for its plugins and themes. By managing transients you can optimize your website for speed and make sure your website is always functioning properly. Here are a few methods how to safely delete expired WordPress transients: Delete Expired WordPress Transients using WPCLI To delete only expired transients use: … Read full article →
How does WordPress’s Recently Active Plugins list work? Recently Active lists inactive plugins that have been deactivated in the last 7 days. In wp-admin/plugins.php line 212 the option “recently_activated” gets updated if a plugin is deactivated: so the data is stored in the database table wp_options > recently_activated The option contains an associative array containing the path … Read full article →
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that will automatically add tags from the post title when saving posts. To use this plugin, simply copy and paste the code into a new file and save it as auto-tag.php in the wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress site. Then, go to the Plugins page in the WordPress admin … Read full article →
In this post, I will discuss the most realistic phishing popup that I’ve seen in years. These popups appear only on WordPress websites that use Cloudflare and can easily be mistaken with the original Cloudflare’s “sorry you have been blocked” screen. The post is divided in two sections: Analysis of the malware and malicious code … Read full article →
It seems everyone is always looking for new ways to get backlinks to their website but sometimes they forget about interlinking posts in their own blog, In WordPress, there are several ways how you can interlink blog posts and many great WordPress interlinking plugins to help you do that Why Interlink Your Blog Posts in WordPress? … Read full article →