WordPress hooks are a powerful feature that allows you to customize and extend the functionality of your WordPress website without modifying the core code. They are essentialy points in the WordPress code where you can add your own custom code or functions. There are two types of hooks in WordPress: actions and filters. Action hooks … Read full article →
60 seconds or less, that’s all that takes to create a WordPress child theme and I highly recommend that you do it before even thinking about making any code or style modifications to your active theme. There are two files that you can use inside a child theme to overwrite parent theme’s functionality or style: … Read full article →
There are a few different ways that you can block access to your WordPress website if a user is coming from a specific website: Blocking access using a plugin There are several WordPress plugins that allow you to block access to your website based on the referral URL. These plugins typically allow you to specify … 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 →
Preventing the site from being indexed by search engines is a feature that is often used when building a site for a client because we don’t want Google to index it until it is ready. Preventing indexing in this case is necessary because the site is in the development phase and the links of the … Read full article →
Here are some useful commands to clear cache from the terminal with wpcli: cdn_purge purge URLs from CDN and Varnish flush all flushes all cache related to W3TC (Page Cache, OC, DB Cache, Minify, etc.) flush page flushes pages cache only flush posts flushes both pages & posts cache flush database flushes DB cache flush … Read full article →
There are several ways you can optimize the MySQL database used by your WordPress site: Optimize tables Optimize all tables in your database: OPTIMIZE TABLE wp_posts, wp_comments, wp_options, wp_usermeta, wp_term_relationships, wp_term_taxonomy, wp_termmeta; Replace wp_ with the database prefix that you are using for your WordPress installation. Repair tables Repair any damaged tables in your database: … 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 →
We occasionally find ourselves in a situation where we need to test the website first, then point the domain name if everything is in order. To achieve this there are multiple ways: Edit Hosts file on your local computer Use online service such as skipDNS Access WordPress using temporary server URL In this guide We … Read full article →
IDBTE4M BOT V87 is a PHP shell that has a rarely good mailer function which is hard to detect because it uses random [email protected] for sending SPAM: source code: when accessed publically the IDBTE4M BOT V87 shell gives a blank page, but with a POST request containing the random password, the shell looks like this: … Read full article →