🐱💻 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 →
In this example, I’m using ID 14988 Using Media Library If you are logged in as admin, add the media ID in the website URL: then copy the file URL: Using SQL Using WPCLI or
Information disclosure, also known as data breach is the unintentional exposure of sensitive information. This sensitive information can be anything from technical information such as plugin versions or hosting plan limits, to users information that should not be made public. Information disclosure is not a hack but allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information that … Read full article →
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 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 →
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:
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 →
To display the number of total views for all posts inside a WordPress category the simplest solution is to count the page views of each post, and then call the post views on the category page. Open the functions.php file of the current template and add the following code: And to display the number of … Read full article →
It seems everyone is always looking for new ways to get backlinks to their website but sometimes they forget about interlinking posts in their own blog, In WordPress, there are several ways how you can interlink blog posts and many great WordPress interlinking plugins to help you do that Why Interlink Your Blog Posts in WordPress? … Read full article →
Here is a simple code snippet that you can add to your theme functions.php file to show the “last updated” date in your posts. A new line will be added to the beginning of the post content if the last modified and published time is different: