Security is a result of security “practices” rather than plugin “functionality”. No security plugin is perfect, but we make do, and that, like everything else in life, is what defines the outcome. Here’s a simple diagram of how an attacker tries to get inside your website. There are 4 levels that each request has to … Read full article →
To check if a plugin is active in WordPress, you can use if ( is_plugin_active( ‘plugin-directory/plugin-file.php’ ) ) { if ( is_plugin_active( ‘akismet/akismet.php’ ) ) { // plugin is active } else { // plugin is inactive } You can also use the get_plugins() function to retrieve all the plugins installed on the site and … 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:
Post revisions are a WordPress feature that allows you to undo changes and go back to an earlier version of your posts and pages, it works by auto-saving every 60s while you edit content. Since revisions can take up a lot of space in the database, it is a good idea to delete them. or You … Read full article →
As you may have guessed from this site, I ❤️ LISTS. I pretty much have a list for anything WordPress-related: Here is another list that was once a draft page on this blog that I used to bookmark links to interesting blogs written by other WordPress enthusiasts and developers. The list is simply updated as … 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 →
A locale is the translation language code used in WordPress that usually consists of a combination of language code and country code, combined with an underscore, for example en_AU or en_GB. Here is a complete and UPDATED List of All WordPress Language Locales 🏳️🌈 This page displays the market share (in %) for each locale (Language code) that WordPress websites are … 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 →
If you want to hide your WordPress site from search engines, you can use the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” option in the “Reading Settings” page of your WordPress dashboard. To access this option, follow these steps: This will add a “noindex” directive to your site’s pages, which tells search engines not to … Read full article →
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: