While developing a custom site I was in a need to represent how many minutes/hours/days the post was published ago instead of the published date. The logic of the code is simple: TIME DISPLAY less than 1 hour XX minutes ago 1 – 24 hours XX hours ago 24 hours – 7 days XX days … Read full article →
In some cases, you may need to add a function to your WordPress website, either to hook something into the theme or use a filter to change something in the theme. One method of making changes to your site using code snippets is through the use of the theme functions.php file. To edit PHP files make sure … Read full article →
You can download older versions of any plugin hosted on WordPress.org directly from the website or from WP-CLI. To download older plugin versions from WordPress.org click on the Advanced view link scroll down to the end of the page and under Previous Versions select the version that you would like to download. that’s it! Another … Read full article →
Since WordPress 5.3, a prompt asking to confirm the administration email address appears every six months when a user with an administrator role tries to access the wp-admin dashboard. This feature was introduced to make sure that the email address configured in Settings → General is active. When this screen is shown you have several options: But … Read full article →
First and first, I must stress that this is a bad idea and that I do not recommend it. Why? Because you’ll remove all of Cloudflare’s protection for the wp-admin dashboard. Cloudflare waits 100 seconds for an HTTP response. If the origin doesn’t respond in that time, Cloudflare closes the connection and you’ll see “Error … Read full article →
When it comes to cleaning huge websites of malware, if the database is several GB in size, it becomes difficult to navigate and remove bad code. PHPMyAdmin and text editors become completely useless for databases over 2GB in size. Here’s a script I came across recently and turned to be quite helpful in removing malware … Read full article →
Error connecting to Mailchimp: 0 cURL error 28: Failed to connect to us17.api.mailchimp.com port 443 after 7207 ms: Couldn’t connect to server If none of the suggested solutions form this guide work: https://www.mc4wp.com/kb/solving-connectivity-issues/ Try to manually connect from your hosting server to the MailChimp server. First, try curl: if that fails, do traceroute (MTR) to see … Read full article →
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 →
🐱💻 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 →