At the time of writing this article (December 03.2022), PHP8 is no longer actively supported and will only receive security support for the next 1 year. New PHP versions offer better optimization and security, but not all plugins, themes, or even WordPress itself is NOT fully compatible with PHP 8.0 How to force your WordPress … Read full article →
One of the most important checkout fields for online stores that is also prone to oversight is phone verification. Order confirmation and delivery can both be made much simpler with proper phone verification. In WooCommerce, the phone number field provides an HTML check for a straightforward number: But by ensuring that the number contains a … Read full article →
Information disclosure, also known as data breach is the unintentional exposure of sensitive information. This sensitive information can be anything from technical information such as plugin versions or hosting plan limits, to users information that should not be made public. Information disclosure is not a hack but allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information that … Read full article →
In this guide I will be adding a scroll percentage to a WordPress page. For a working demo please check this page. Step 1. Add HTML code First step is to add the HTML code that will display the scroll percentage number inside the page or theme header. in this example I’m adding it to … Read full article →
After a plugin is deinstalled from a WordPress website it will either remove all its data from the database or leave it in case the plugin is installed again. Upon deactivation, if the plugin’s data isn’t removed from the database you should manually remove it in order to optimize the database and get rid of … Read full article →
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 →
When cleaning websites that have large databases, regular text editors can’t even open the database dumps (Notepad++ supports files up to 2GB in size). So to run a search and replace on large database dumps I suggest using regex-replace line-by-line in PHP, or setting up WPCLI and running regex search & replace. Here is a … Read full article →
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that will automatically add the post title as the alt tag to featured images and other images in the post content improving traffic from search engines. Simply install & activate the and it will automatically add Alt Tag to images in new posts. <?php /** * Plugin Name: Auto Alt … Read full article →
In most cases, the cache can be “tricked” by adding a random variable to the URL during testing, for example https://wpxss.com/application/wp-includes/how-to-bypass-cache-and-always-view-uncached-content-in-wordpress/?a=123 In this case, a new cache page is generated and does not load cached content that already exists.
Many users choose to host their images on an external service to reduce the load on their hosting. If you are interested in doing this, you will only have to change the location of all the images that you have already uploaded. To do this, you need to make two SQL queries in your database: 1. … Read full article →