Back in 2010 when I was starting my web development journey, having a website was expensive, especially on a high-school student budget. I had plenty of dumb ideas, and no money to realize all of them (thank God 🙏). So I was looking for shortcuts to save on a domain name and hosting. I will … Read full article →
Here is a snippet that allows you to set a custom image on the WordPress login page and set a custom link: Replace https://your-domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/custom-logo.png with your logo https://your-domain.com with your link
This code snippet will create a new Filter option for WooCommerce: Availability that will allow users to sort products based on stock number. Add the code to your active theme functions.php or create a new Child theme first to make sure that your edits are not deleted after theme update.
WordPress salts are a security feature in the WordPress platform that helps protect your website from malicious attacks. They are a series of random strings of characters that are added to the password hashing process, making it more difficult for hackers to crack your passwords. There are several reasons why it is important to change … Read full article →
The pipe ( | ) and tilde ( ~ ) separators are removed from Yoast SEO plugin 17.1. It was done because Google routinely alters these symbols in search results, according to Yoast: https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-17-1 To add these separators back to yoastSEO plugin, simply add the following inside your active theme function.php file: and under Search … Read full article →
To enable HSTS Preload on a WordPress website (https://hstspreload.org/?domain=wpxss.com) you need to add the following code snippet in the .htaccess file: If you have access to the server settings *(You are using a VPS or DEDICATED server) then you can enable it server-wide for all domains by adding the snippet to the /etc/apache2/conf.d/includes/pre_main_global.conf file TIP: … Read full article →
Here is a handy snippet that displays a random post, so each time a user refreshes the page a different post will appear. The snippet should be saved as a PHP template for pages and a page has to use it. Step 1. Create a new file random.php inside your active theme folder and put … Read full article →
The most regularly seen attack type is script injection (XSS attack), rogue scripts are injected into the webpage for malicious purposes. This includes redirects to third-party websites, collecting user data, downloading malware to visitors, etc. WordPress has a bunch of useful developer functions that are used to sanitize data (Validating Sanitizing and Escaping User Data) … Read full article →
This small script uses a for loop to delete one post ID at a time, it will go through the database and list all media files uploaded in the provided data range that are not used inside posts. Change the date range according to your needs.
One of the biggest disadvantages of the Gutenberg editor is that the width of the editor is not as full-width as the classic editor. In many themes, the background editing interface is very narrow compared to the actual article page, resulting in different front and back layouts, which affects the article. In this article, We’ll … Read full article →