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 →
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 →
I wrote this simple guide knowing that hosting your WordPress site is an important decision and choosing the wrong hosting company can harm your site in many different ways. In what ways? Well, website speed is a crucial element these days when it comes to how Google sees your website. WordPress site is slow to … Read full article →
After optimizing a WooCommerce store I noticed the following HTML comment appears at the beginning of every page when viewing the source code: Alter HTML was skipped because the HTML is too big to process! After troubleshooting the issue, it seems to be caused by the WebP Express WordPress plugin when the feature Alter HTML … Read full article →
is_home() and is_front_page() are both conditional tags in WordPress that can be used to check whether the currently viewed page is the site’s Home Page. However, they have slightly different meanings and use cases: What is the difference between is_home and is_front_page functions in WordPress? is_home() check if the current page is the main blog posts index (latest posts) … Read full article →
99% of WordPress users are already aware of a number of security tips, including: But in this guide, I’ll go over a few other, lesser-known techniques that can help keep hackers out of your WordPress website. Not just hide – disable wp-admin ❌ Security by obscurity is nothing more than a house of cards. – … 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 editing the menu in customizer the changes failed to save with the error message: Looks like something’s gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds, and then try again. And when inspecting the page the following error appears: POST http://plugins.club/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 403 (Forbidden) The 403 error is caused by something blocking access to the file such as … Read full article →