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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Here are five different methods to create a new WordPress Admin user. In all of the examples below I will use the following username/password combination, so make sure to change it before running any of the commands: username123 change username123 with your username password123 change password123 with your password [email protected] change [email protected] with your email … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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.