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Extending a custom framework built into WordPress to automatically turn the ‘Search Engine Visibility’ setting ON / OFF, dependant on environment

Those “definable settings” are constants. WordPress defines its default constants in this file. If a constant definition is wrapped in a defined() check, like this: if ( ! defined( ‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’ ) ) { define( ‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, true ); } Then it means you can define it first in the wp-config.php file (or, apparently, this framework’s config … Read more

Editing wp-config.php

Yes, the plugin can override it, use action, init with a function to disable it. for example add_action(init,’my_disable_revision’); function my_disable_revision () { define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ ); }

Publishing WordPress from stage to production server

I would be very hesitant in having the same database for staging and live as any changes to the database would affect both sites (especially when using software like WordPress where there is configuration in the database). The only time that I would think of pointing to the live database would be if I was … Read more

Changing the wp-config.php broke the site

There’re some things you should not play around with, until you really know core inside out and one of those things are the Path constants that can be set in your wp-config.php. Here’s how I do it. Note, that it’s uncommented, so it doesn’t trigger and WP uses its default. # define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR_NAME’, ‘wp-content’ ); … Read more

Storing FTP details in wp-config.php

I would consider it somewhat safe since that’s where your database connection information is also stored. One could easily ruin your website by deleting your whole database if they had access to that file. There are a couple of things you can do to increase security: Move the wp-config file one level outside the root. … Read more

Can WordPress Drop-ins be given their own directory?

Is it possible to give drop-ins in their own subdirectory of wp-content instead? No, it is not possible without editing the core WordPress code.

Cookie set without HttpOnly flag

Have you tried adding Header always edit Set-Cookie (.*) “$1; HttpOnly” Header always edit Set-Cookie (.*) “$1; Secure” to your .htaccess? Found this on StackOverflow

Google Page Speed Insights not recognising WP-Cofig settings?

The enfoce_gzip constant, and the other in the same group in your config, actually refer to how wordpress should serve admin side related JS and CSS, and it seems like you are interested in the front end. Setting gzip compression is something that you should do in your server configuration level (several options depending on … Read more

What is the difference in the WP memory limits?

Max is used on the admin side, WP_MEMORY_LIMIT is used on the front end. Don’t increase the memory available more than you need to or you’ll run the risk of running out of RAM if you have too many simultaneous hits on pages.

Ways to load admin-ajax faster without initializing all plugins?

If your requests take 3-5 sec to finish, then there is most likely something else going on. The admin Ajax itself won’t take that much to load. You might be having some heavy plugin, or having some hooks running expensive meta queries on load. You can try the REST-API, which is slightly faster than Admin-Ajax. … Read more

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