The .htaccess file is a configuration file that is used by the Apache web server to control various aspects of how the server functions. In WordPress, the .htaccess file is used to control various settings related to the permalinks of your website, as well as to protect your website from various types of attacks. The … Read full article →
Like many other scripts, WordPress also uses PHPmailer to send transactional emails. If no email is set for sending emails, WordPress will use the default cPanel email account ([email protected]) which isn’t pretty. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an industry-standard for sending emails. Proper SMTP configuration helps increase email deliverability by using authentication. To specify … Read full article →
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 →
Here is How to display current CryptoCurrency prices on a WordPress website without using any plugins. Add these snippets to the functions.php file of your active theme and then add the shortcode where you want to display the content. Bitcoin Price This snippet uses the CoinDesk API to retrieve the current Bitcoin price: Then just … 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 →
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 →
AJAX enables tasks such as fetching, inserting and deleting records from a MySQL database, as well as file uploading. AJAX sent URL should be admin-ajax.php. wp_ajax action hooks. Here are well-explained tutorials from Yogesh Singh on how to send AJAX requests from a WordPress theme and a WordPress plugin:
Post revisions are a WordPress feature that allows you to undo changes and go back to an earlier version of your posts and pages, it works by auto-saving every 60s while you edit content. Since revisions can take up a lot of space in the database, it is a good idea to delete them. or You … Read full article →
When migrating from WordPress CMS to another CMS there are a couple of ways to easily export all your posts and media files: In this guide we will be using the WPGraphQL plugin and Netlify to deploy a Gatsby website. Step 1. Fork the gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-wordpress-blog repo on Github Step 2. Edit the gatsby-config.js file and … Read full article →
From September 30, 2021, WordPress websites that use Let’s Encrypt certificates are having issues with HTTP API requests. For example, here is an example that will cause this error: $res = wp_remote_get( ‘https://abcdef.com/’ ); if( is_wp_error( $res ) ){ echo $res->get_error_message(); } the error message: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired What causes this error? … Read full article →