I’ve personally had limited success with the backup/restore plug-ins that are commonly available. Many times, the best backup plug-ins don’t allow for a direct restoration from a backup file. So I do things manually. It’s a bit more difficult, but far more reliable, too. Backing up with phpMyAdmin Log in to your host’s control panel … Read more
I’m not 100% clear on what your question is, but hopefully this will cover it: There’s a lot of documentation of how to use AJAX in WP. I would start here: https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX In the function that you write to hook your AJAX call into, make a call to the DB to see if the user-entered … Read more
Maybe you are after something like WP PHP Console. Another good plugin would be the Simple Error Handler, while it should be regarded it is compatible only up to 3.8.11 and you may consider forking it to be compatible to latest version of WordPress.
There’s no set best practice, as each model fits different work processes. One Repository If you’re only managing a single site with a single set of plugins/themes then a single repository makes sense. Or if you’re managing multiple sites that use the same set of plugins/themes. Multiple Repositories This is my personal preference. Keep WordPress … Read more
There is, in fact, a way to do it without messing with the theme, let’s say your WordPress is on public_html/your_site, now you want to create an HTML page that is on your_site.com/mypage, so instead of creating a page or post called mypage on your WordPress dashboard you are going to create a mypage.html and … Read more
Hi @Jonathan Sampson: There are several plugins to make Custom Post Types easier and some allow you to define Custom Fields too, in no particular order: WP Easy Post Types GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools Custom Post Type UI Simple Fields As I mentioned above I’ve been working on one that does not provide … Read more
01 Database Security 01.01 change your database prefix during install or after install this is security by obscurity but helps with automated scripts that could run over all databases to inject bad code in your content like scripts, iframes or display: bits 01.02 install a database backup plugin to automate the backup e.g. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/ Read … Read more
Available actions: pre_post_update – Runs just before a post or page is updated. publish_post – Runs when a post is published, or if it is edited and its status is “published”. save_post – Runs whenever a post or page is created or updated, which could be from an import, post/page edit form, xmlrpc, or post … Read more
After digging around, I ended up with using upload_dir filter. Here is what I tried in functions.php to change uploads to media. Hope it can help someone too 🙂 add_filter(‘upload_dir’, function($uploads) { $custom = []; foreach ($uploads as $key => $value) { if ( false !== strpos($value, ‘/app/uploads’) ) { $custom[$key] = str_replace(‘/app/uploads’, ‘/app/media’, $value); … Read more
You can simply use the same filter with a lower or higher priority parameter to make the appropriate changes to the $actions array. That way you may create a small custom plugin (or modify the theme’s functions.php file), without having to modify the existing plugin directly. For example: if you want your custom code to … Read more