Preface It would be best to see what kind of caching options are available through your host. If you can use an object cache, CDN, or anything like that, you could decrease the load on your server. If your database and webserver are the same host, then storing this in the database won’t necessarily mean … Read more
WordPress includes many functions for determining paths and URLs to files or directories within plugins, themes, and WordPress itself. $plugin_dir = plugin_dir_path( __DIR__ ); // wp-content/plugins/ require_once($plugin_dir.’WPNonce/WPNonce.php’); While using plugin_dir_path(), keep in mind that the “plugin” part of the name is misleading – it can be used for any file, and will not return the … Read more
You could accomplish this by setting up a redirect. If you’re using an Apache server, for your example, you would add this to .htaccess above the WordPress block: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule somepost.php ^/somepost/ It’s much more common, and recommended, to create a PHP file and a Page (or other post type) within wp-admin). This will … Read more
First of all, search this site. This questions has been answered many times in the past: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/search?q=clean+wp_head and https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/search?q=security+obscurity Secondly, there is a difference in what WP loads and what a theme and a plugin will load. Look in the theme functions file to see what the theme loads, i.e. javascripts and CSS. Look in … Read more
By default, WordPress will automatically generate a few different sizes of images. You can adjust the sizes here: Dashboard -> Settings -> Media -> Image Sizes. If you want to prevent certain image sizes from generating upon your uploaded images, you could use the filter intermediate_image_sizes to remove the generation of certain image sizes. Example … Read more
Linux users have nothing to do with WordPress users. WordPress maintains its own user database, with its own permissions. The linux user PHP is running as is determined by the server setup, usually whatever user that Apache/Nginx/etc are running as. If your PHP can access the entire file system then you have a serious security … Read more
Add this to your theme’s functions.php file: function wpse202681_save_post_action($post_id, $post_object, $update) { $folder = “/temp/files/”; delFolder($folder); } add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘wpse202681_save_post_action’, 10, 3 ); // + delFolder() function definition You will probably have to alter folder paths depending on your /temp/files/ location. This will execute everytime any post is saved. You can restrict it to only … Read more
How do I keep my Files during WordPress and Theme Updates? Don’t edit core WordPress files or the files of themes or plugins you didn’t develop yourself. If those are updated they are replaced entirely and you will lose any changes you make. If you want to customise the theme, create a Child Theme. If … Read more
You should never ever modify WordPress Core files. WordPress has an Plugin API (http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API) that allows you to modify WordPress to your liking without changing Core code. In your case, the solution is to check the contents of the custom meta box fields before they are saved via the save_post action. If the content is … Read more
Of the two option you proposed, the latter is better for maintainability. The reason is, if you ever need to move the site to another server or use the theme on another site, it seems an easier process to move / reuse. If you’re not using the image for themeing, consider just using media library … Read more