Here are a few ways you can change the active theme in WordPress: Using WP Dashboard Using the WordPress Administration Screens: You can change the active theme by going to the “Appearance” -> “Themes” page in the WordPress Administration Screens and selecting a new theme. Using functions.php or a custom plugin Using the wp_set_theme function: … Read full article →
wp-admin/plugins.php displays the plugins list table using the array $plugins_all which contains information on all installed plugins. We can use pre_current_active_plugins hook to perform actions before the plugin information is displayed on this page. TIP: The best way to understand what a hook does is to look at where it occurs in the source code. … Read full article →
If you have manually installed one of the supported Installatron applications, you can easily import the application through Installatron to take advantage of all the features that Installatron offers. The steps when importing into Installatron are the same for all applications, so we will use the example of importing a WordPress application for this article. … Read full article →
Here is a simple WordPress plugin that will automatically add tags from the post title when saving posts. To use this plugin, simply copy and paste the code into a new file and save it as auto-tag.php in the wp-content/plugins directory of your WordPress site. Then, go to the Plugins page in the WordPress admin … Read full article →
Website backups are critical for WordPress users who want to build a website on their own.Backing up the site on a regular basis can help us not only save the prior data, but also restore it quickly in the event of technical issues, website attacks, and other problems. “Whew! Glad I didn’t waste my time … 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:
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was applicable back in 2018, website owners have been scrambling to get their websites up to standard and avoid huge fines. Years later, GDPR fines continue, and small businesses are certainly not immune. Although you may receive a warning before being fined, there is no reason to take the risk. If you … Read full article →
Yoast SEO is compatible with PHP 8 and PHP 8.1 but the Composer that YoastSEO is using doesn’t yes support PHP 8.0 so you might experience problems when editing posts&pages in WordPress. According to this comment there are still 19 other PHP version incompatibilities remaining to be fixed. 😲 So turns out that YoastSEO is … Read full article →
The pipe ( | ) and tilde ( ~ ) separators are removed from Yoast SEO plugin 17.1. It was done because Google routinely alters these symbols in search results, according to Yoast: https://yoast.com/yoast-seo-17-1 To add these separators back to yoastSEO plugin, simply add the following inside your active theme function.php file: and under Search … Read full article →
Deleting all inactive WordPress themes and plugins from your website is a recommended security practice. Even when deactivated, old, insecure plugins and themes might still pose a threat to the security of your WordPress website. Here are oneliners to remove inactive themes and plugins from your WordPress website using WP-CLI. List all inactive WordPress themes: Delete … Read full article →