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:
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:
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 →
Missing a temporary folder. WordPress error can be caused for multiple reasons: How to fix this error: 1. Enable required extensions Check if required extensions are enabled in Tools > Site Health: If they are not, enable them from cPanel > PHP Selector 2. Check wp-config.php for WP_TEMP_DIR Check if a custom path for file … 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 →
🐱💻 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 →
The ‘Remember Me’ option is a checkbox on the WordPress login screen that lets your users save their username and password. If checked, WordPress will remember the login session for 14 days. If you want to disable the Remember Me option in WordPress, here is how to do it: 1. Hide the option using CSS … 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:
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 →
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 →