Here are the most common types of WordPress malware attacks. Permanent malware eradication entails conducting a thorough investigation and determining the type of attack that occurred, how it occurred, and permanently closing that door. This is known as root cause analysis and vulnerability fix in the security world. 🔀 Cross-site scripting (XSS) The most regularly … Read full article →
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that uses the [site] shortcode to display the website name: It uses the get_bloginfo() function to retrieve website information, and do_shortcode() function to display the information in the WordPress post or page. We can use get_bloginfo() function to also display additional information such as URL, WordPress version, etc. Here … Read full article →
🐱💻 Denial-of-Service or DoS attack in short, a DoS attacks tries to create fake traffic to overload your WordPress website, so much so that it becomes unavailable due to hositng/server limits. An extension to DoS is the DDoS attack with stands for Distributed Denial of Service. This one originates from multiple IP addresses. Types of … Read full article →
The .htaccess file is a configuration file that is used by the Apache web server to control various aspects of how the server functions. In WordPress, the .htaccess file is used to control various settings related to the permalinks of your website, as well as to protect your website from various types of attacks. The … 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 →
When using WordPress REST API each request is processed by WordPress and depending on the size of the database and server performance, issues start occurring for high-traffic websites. By using a plugin such as WP REST Cache you can cache the responses of the REST API, making it much faster. Then if you want to … Read full article →
This is another neat feature that I needed but didn’t really want to use another plugin to accomplish it. To display user roles inside WordPress comments like on the image above ? use the following code snippet:
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack that forces logged-in users to submit a request to a WordPress website where they are currently authenticated. CSRF attacks exploit the trust a WordPress website has in an authenticated user. CSRF attacks are aimed at your WordPress website users to make them do various actions on your website: … 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 →
I recently encountered this awesome plugin Custom Highlight Color by Nick Halsey that allows you to set custom color for highlighted text on your WordPress website. And the plugin is great, does what it is supposed to, but I just wanted to take it one step further and set random colors. To set a custom … Read full article →