Well, you shouldn’t be 🙂 Did you know or remember that WordPress has a less scary box where you can write you blog post drafts? It’s right in your WordPress Dashboard. You can use it to create drafts of your blog posts. It consists of just two boxes without any formatting and you can just […]
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xdebug is an awesome debugging extension and it has saved me so much time when developing and also when troubleshooting php scripts and WordPress plugins. When you’re working with xdebug in your PHP development environment and using functions like var_dump() to output some debugging data (logging is better but sometimes you have to do it),
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This tutorial assumes that you are using Apache web server and php as an apache module. The steps may differ if you have a different set up. For example nginx, php-fpm + apache, docker etc. As of this writing the old version is PHP 7.4 and the new PHP version is 8.3. You may need
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Usually when WordPress updates itself or if it’s a fresh installation it would generate this Welcome to WordPress huge banner.It takes a lot of space. If you’re a beginner you may take a look at it for a few seconds but no more than that. If you’re more advanced WordPress user you’ll go straight to
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Why disable certain PHP functions When securing a PHP server, it’s critical to disable some functions that allow attackers to execute harmful commands or scripts. PHP Functions like exec, system, and shell_exec are used to execute external commands which poses a security risk. This could be called by a script you uploaded or by a
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Introduction In the realm of web development, one challenge that consistently emerges is ensuring seamless interaction between different origins or domains. This is where CORS, or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, steps into the spotlight. As web developers, we often find ourselves in situations where our applications need to request resources from a domain other than the
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So you’ve decided to try WordPress Multisite?Awesome! WordPress Multisite has its uses even though many people don’t usually recommend it.It is probably because not many WordPress plugins are compatible with it. You can use WordPress multisite for different subsections of the site. e.g. support, help, developer docs etc. i.e. everything that’s related to a product
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Normally to modify the WordPress pages’ meta title you can use the following filter.doc ref: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/the_title/ the callback will receive $post_title, $post_id as arguments. If you’re using RankMath for your SEO stuff you need to use this filter: rank_math/frontend/title to modify the meta title. I didn’t have the time to fully investigate why that’s the
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RankMath and other WordPress plugins tend to inject some HTML into the content of the page. This code is not normally seen by the end users but when somebody views the page’s source code they will see it. It’s extra 200-300 characters. Of course if you’ve worked hard on a plugin you’d want the sites
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So you’ve created a cool custom post type in WordPress but can’t find a way to edit its slug/link/permalink? Editing the slug is not that obvious for a custom post types. We know. WordPress shows the default/classic WordPress editor and not the block editor for custom post types. So you’ve added a custom post type
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