💡 WordPress plugins are a piece of software that extends and expands the functionality of your WordPress site.
Here you can find up-to-date tutorials for the most popular WordPress plugins.
The pipe ( | ) and tilde ( ~ ) separators are removed from Yoast SEO plugin 17.1. It was done because Google routinely alters these symbols in search results, according to Yoast: https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-17-1 To add these separators back to yoastSEO plugin, simply add the following inside your active theme function.php file: and under Search … Read full article →
Using a WordPress membership plugin to earn revenue through paid memberships is a fantastic idea. They provide you the option of restricting access to some or all content to subscribers only. Subscription payments can be one-time or ongoing, with the latter providing a stable source of income. Types of membership sites WordPress membership sites (also … Read full article →
I’ve been a WordPress user for over a decade and back at the beginning of my first WP blog (around 2010), I did a comparison between at the time most popular WordPress Caching plugins, and various caching methods: APC, XCache, and eAccelerator. Most of those plugins are long dead but some of their functions still … 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 →
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 →
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 →
In this example, we’ll use the is_user_logged_in() to display a different theme on our website for visitors: if(is_user_logged_in()) { function wpxss_set_my_custom_theme() { //replace your theme name here return ‘your-theme-name’; } add_filter( ‘template’, ‘wpxss_set_my_custom_theme’ ); add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, ‘wpxss_set_my_custom_theme’ ); } else { // leave the default theme active for visitors } The template and stylesheet filters are responsible to select the activated … Read full article →
Uploaded images are not displaying in the media library: And when image is opened directly it shows error: Error occured while calculating config file: Configuration file was not found (wod-options.json) This error is caused by left-over code in the .htaccess file from an image optimization plugin such as WebpExpress. To fix the issue:
SVN, or Subversion, is a version control system similar to Git that can be used via the command line, or one of numerous GUI applications, such as Tortoise SVN or SmartSVN. In this guide, I will use TortoiseSVN software to checkout a WordPress plugin. Step 1. First, download and install TortoiseSVN software: https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html Step 2. After installation, you … Read full article →
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 →