This is one of the most-asked questions that I get emailed from people that read some posts from my Types of WordPress Malware Attacks and What They Do series. 99% of the time website owners are the last ones to find out that their WordPress websites are hacked, after visitors, Google, website scanners, and their … Read full article →
The most regularly seen attack type is script injection (XSS attack), rogue scripts are injected into the webpage for malicious purposes. This includes redirects to third-party websites, collecting user data, downloading malware to visitors, etc. WordPress has a bunch of useful developer functions that are used to sanitize data (Validating Sanitizing and Escaping User Data) … Read full article →
60 seconds or less, that’s all that takes to create a WordPress child theme and I highly recommend that you do it before even thinking about making any code or style modifications to your active theme. There are two files that you can use inside a child theme to overwrite parent theme’s functionality or style: … Read full article →
One of the most important checkout fields for online stores that is also prone to oversight is phone verification. Order confirmation and delivery can both be made much simpler with proper phone verification. In WooCommerce, the phone number field provides an HTML check for a straightforward number: But by ensuring that the number contains a … Read full article →
We occasionally find ourselves in a situation where we need to test the website first, then point the domain name if everything is in order. To achieve this there are multiple ways: Edit Hosts file on your local computer Use online service such as skipDNS Access WordPress using temporary server URL In this guide We … 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 →
I have a WordPress blog on pcelarstvopejcic.com/blog and a few pages that I would like to move to the domain document root, so that: pcelarstvopejcic.com/blog/contact becomes pcelarstvopejcic.com/contact pcelarstvopejcic.com/blog/shop becomes pcelarstvopejcic.com/shop So this way I only have one WP installation and blog posts would be accessible via pcelarstvopejcic.com/blog/POST and pages in pcelarstvopejcic.com/PAGE To do this, edit … Read full article →
WordPress has many built-in functions that can help you debug. They can be activated by editing them in the wp-config.php file: 1. Enable debug mode By default Debug mode is disabled in WordPress, so you need to enable it by editing the wp-config.php file and changing the value from define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, false ); to define( … 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 →
🐱💻 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 →