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 →
IF you use the same commands often you can save them as aliases so that you have them always available. For example, the following commands will check if WP core, installed plugins and themes have updates available: You can combine the commands into a one-liner: and you can create an alias for this command: so … Read full article →
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 full article →
According to publicwww about 5000 websites are known to be infected with this type of WordPress malware. It is similar to legendarytable.com malware and adds js code into every post and page so that visitors are redirected to third-party websites. Check if infected To check if your website is infected, open PHPMyAdmin, select your database, … Read full article →
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 full article →
Magic Quotes is a PHP function where strings are automatically escaped (special characters are prefixed with a backslash) before being passed. This is considered a bad practice and as of PHP 7.4, they are deprecated. This article by Sebastian Bergmann explains in detail Why Magic Quotes are gone in PHP 7 WordPress doesn’t use magic … Read full article →
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:
In this guide We’ll cover how to reset a WordPress user password using WP-CLI. Step 1. Ensure WP-CLI is installed and you are in the website directory run the following command to check if you are in the right folder: Step 2. List all users and note user_login for the user Step 3. Replace the … Read full article →
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that will create a [activeplugin] shortcode: Add it as plugin and activate, then add shortcode [activeplugins] anywhere on your website and it will display all active plugins:
If you used shortcodes from a certain plugin or a theme and then stop using either one, then chances are that you still have shortcodes that no longer translate into anything. In this guide We will be using WP CLI Shortcode scrapper package to find all shortcodes in the database. This command works by searching … Read full article →