MonsterInsights Error: The firewall of your server is blocking outbound calls. Please contact your hosting provider to fix this issue. cURL error 28: Failed to connect to www.google.com port 443 after 1201 ms: Couldn’t connect to server This error is caused by cURL (Client for URLs) – a command line tool that is used to … 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 →
To use WP REST API from another website to display WooCommerce products, we first need to generate new API keys under WooCommerce > Advanced > REST API We can then use these keys along with the website URL to display the data: 💡 Make sure to replace website_url, consumer_key and consumer_secret with your data. By … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
I’ve tested the most used WordPress backup plugins and compared their compression level and backup&restore speed. The website on which I performed the tests is a WP blog (pcx3.com) that has 2.7 GB in files and database size is 130.8 MB Tested plugins: New plugins might be added later on. 🙂 Spoiler alert – the … Read full article →