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 →
WordPress has an HTML meta generation tag that shows that your website is running WordPress and which version exactly. If you right-click on this page and choose View Source, you can find this tag by searching for “generator” in the source code. You should see something similar to: <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 6.0.3″ /> This code … Read full article →
To display the number of total views for all posts inside a WordPress category the simplest solution is to count the page views of each post, and then call the post views on the category page. Open the functions.php file of the current template and add the following code: And to display the number of … 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 →
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 →
WooCommerce plugin uses the wp_actionsscheduler_actions table in the database to log scheduled actions such as cron’s running, product synchronization, upgrade, etc. These actions should be deleted once they are executed but this doesn’t always happen, in most cases, this table uses an InnoDB database engine with a row-level locking feature meaning that multiple queries can … Read full article →
While developing a custom site I was in a need to represent how many minutes/hours/days the post was published ago instead of the published date. The logic of the code is simple: TIME DISPLAY less than 1 hour XX minutes ago 1 – 24 hours XX hours ago 24 hours – 7 days XX days … Read full article →
Although you can change almost every aspect of WordPress themes, to design your site exactly how you want it, you may occasionally need to add some custom CSS. In WordPress 4.7, a new way to add CSS to your site was added inside the Customizer which you can find in Customize > Additional CSS. However, CSS … Read full article →