💡 WordPress plugins are a piece of software that extends and expands the functionality of your WordPress site.
Here you can find up-to-date tutorials for the most popular WordPress plugins.
I’ve been a WordPress user for over a decade and back at the beginning of my first WP blog (around 2010), I did a comparison between at the time most popular WordPress Caching plugins, and various caching methods: APC, XCache, and eAccelerator. Most of those plugins are long dead but some of their functions still … Read full article →
If you are using Softaculous backups you may notice that Softaculous backups also the cache folders (wp-content/cache and wp-content/litespeed) and backups created by WordPress backup plugins (wp-content/updraft & wp-content/ai1wm-backup). This significantly increases the size of Softaculous backup files. To exclude these folders from Softaculous backups SSH into your server and navigate to the following path: Copy … 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 →
When purging cache from the LiteSpeed Caching plugin the error no referer is shown and purging is not working. This error is caused by the Security Headers Referrer-Policy setting “no referer” on the server (or Cloudflare). The no-referrer value instructs the browser to never send the referer header with requests that are made from your site. This … Read full article →
Security is a result of security “practices” rather than plugin “functionality”. No security plugin is perfect, but we make do, and that, like everything else in life, is what defines the outcome. Here’s a simple diagram of how an attacker tries to get inside your website. There are 4 levels that each request has to … Read full article →
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 →
SVN, or Subversion, is a version control system similar to Git that can be used via the command line, or one of numerous GUI applications, such as Tortoise SVN or SmartSVN. In this guide, I will use TortoiseSVN software to checkout a WordPress plugin. Step 1. First, download and install TortoiseSVN software: https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html Step 2. After installation, you … Read full article →
Want to change the domain name for your WordPress website? No problem, in this guide We’ll walk you through 5 different methods to change the domain name for a WordPress website from cPanel PHPMyAdmin. Before following this guide make sure you’ve down the following: registered the desired domain name and pointed it towards your hosting … Read full article →
Here is how to backup WordPress using the Updraft WordPress backup plugin. Step 1. Install and Activate Updraft Go to Plugins > Add New and in the search bar in top right, type “updraft”. From the search results click on the Install Now button and then activate it. Step 2. Open plugin settings After installing … Read full article →
Another website got hacked and the owner noticed weird chinese characters in search results for his website. The index.php file contained the following code: Initially, the point of entry for this malicious code was a plugin named Three Column Screen Layout that has a vulnerability which as many other WordPress users report is being actively … Read full article →