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 more
By default .css and .js files used in WordPress themes and plugins will add a version number using ?ver= To disable this add the following inside your theme functions.php file or as a new plugin:
Welcome to the world of Blogging. 🎉🎉🎉 Blogging is a great way to express yourself, build a business, or share experiences. There are endless reasons that drive people to start blogs. No matter what your reason for beginning is, you can get your WordPress blog set up and running in five easy steps. 1. What’s … Read more
In this article, we’ll add the next and previous links on a WordPress theme. First We declare the previous and next variables: Then to show them inside the post, add the following snippets to the theme’s single.php file: If you want to further customize the links and maybe even display post name inside the links, … Read more
File inclusion vulnerabilities allow an attacker to read (and sometimes execute) files on the WordPress website, gain unauthorized access to sensitive information and inject malicious files through the “include” functionality. This can be very dangerous because if the webserver is misconfigured the attacker may gain access to sensitive user information and even execute arbitrary commands. There … Read more
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 more
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 more
On his blog Konstantin Shestopalov recently shared How to disable Cyrillic or Latin characters at checkout in Woocommerce with the following example to disable Latin characters on the checkout page: While the code does not actually disable Cyrillic characters, it simply checks if the letters are in Latin, and if not, prints an error message … Read more
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 more
In this article I will cover 5 different methods on how to open all links in new tab on WordPress website. To force opening all links in a new tab there are couple of solutions: 1. WordPress plugin Open Links In New Tab is a WP plugin that opens internal and external links in a … Read more