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 →
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 →
In this article, we’ll add the next and previous links on a WordPress theme. First We declare the previous and next variables: Then to show them inside the post, add the following snippets to the theme’s single.php file: If you want to further customize the links and maybe even display post name inside the links, … Read full article →
I got the method I’ll describe below from Krasen Slavov, who shared it on his blog wprotary.com back in December ’21, and I’ve been using it for my WordPress plugins ever since. If you require anything more complicated with eslint, stylelint, and PHP standards, I recommend using Composer + nodeJS, or looking into Gulp. Requirements … Read full article →
For years WooCommerce was showing the Serbian currency as дин. but this was recently changed to рсд. and now Serbian currency is available in WooCommerce only in Cyrillic script (РСД). You’ll see more details here. But because the Serbian language can be written both in Cyrillic as well as in Latin script, and almost 100%, of … Read full article →
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 →
PHP versions prior to PHP 7.4 are end-of-life (EOL), meaning they no longer receive updates. Because of this, your site may be exposed to security vulnerabilities. It’s not just the security implications though of running an older PHP version, it’s the performance impact as well. According to PHPBenchmarks, PHP 5.6 is at least 48% slower than … Read full article →
Here is an example of a simple WordPress plugin that uses a shortcode to display a list of files from the WordPress repository on GitHub: <?php /* Plugin Name: List WordPress Core Files Description: Displays a list of files from the WordPress repository on GitHub. */ function wpfl_shortcode_handler( $atts ) { // Parse shortcode attributes … 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:
In this post I discussed an example where wp_options table had 900k rows of plugin-based data in it, causing the wp-admin dashboard to load slowly. As noted there, good coding practice is for each plugin to create its own database tables and use those instead of default WP tables. While the WordPress community actively improves … Read full article →