optimization

Best way to search and replace within serialized database strings?

It seems WP-CLI is indeed one of the easiest ways to search/replace serialized strings, e.g. for replacing any unwanted instances of staging links: wp search-replace https://staging.example.com https://example.com –all-tables The above command will search the entire WordPress database for the first string, and replace all instances with the second string provided. If you want to test … Read more

WordPress Customise

The interstitial page on that website isn’t part of WordPress. It’s just an external page with some ads and a download link on it. You can easily do this by yourself. Create a php file named download.php on your server and add the following code to it: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”5; url=<?php $_GET[‘url’];?>” /></head> … Read more

echo vs output variable [closed]

I believe this topic was addressed quite thoroughly here. I might add that within the WordPress community it is common syntax practice to default to echoing tags with an option or alternative/interior function to return the result instead. This I believe is driven by the level of code experience the average user within WordPress has … Read more

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