One of the things I see a lot of in log files for WordPress site is scans for ?author=1. These are scans for admin users and can reveal the user name. Some security plugin will change the user ID for 1, but does not handle multiple user IDs that could be 2, 3 or 4. […]
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In your short code, check if a cached version of the shortcode output is already cached prior to building the output: After the shortcode has generated the output, save the output and set a time limit before you return the output. reference: https://www.gavick.com/blog/create-shortcode-cache-simply
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WordPress has a secret options page to update values in the options table. Access it by changing the options page URL from /options-general.php to /options.php. I have found this useful for updating the admin email address since they have an authorization feature now. This let me skirt this feature for making a change to the
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Modifying “Print Invoices & Packing Lists” WooCommerce add-on to remove unwanted columns. This will remove the sku column from the invoice, and the weights column from the packing list. The weight column was the primary reason for this code, and makes it simple to eliminate unwanted information. source: https://www.skyverge.com/blog/modifying-print-invoices-packing-lists-templates/
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Change the default wordpress search, and limit the results to only specific post types. Change the array that is set to only include the post types that you want returned for the search. reference: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-limit-search-results-for-specific-post-types-in-wordpress/
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Using the custom menu builder in wordpress to output submenus with the following code. Useful when you want to add dynamic submenus to the sidebar based on the parent child layout from the menu builder. I prefer this to the old method of assigning parent child relationships on the page settings, since we already have
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CDN resources are useful for including common scripts, but the jquery ui script also requires the stylesheets. The following code will add the jqueryui stylesheets for the proper version that is included with wordpress. reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8849684/wordpress-jquery-ui-css-files
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Stop using @import in child themes. Use the following code in your functions.php file to enqueue the parent theme style.css file, and avoid using @import. reference: https://konstantin.blog/2014/child-themes-import/
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Get ride of over branding and the related videos at the end of the video for wordpress oEmbed videos.
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Create yourself a wordpress admin user account if you only have ftp access to a site. Add this snippet to the theme’s functions.php file, or in a file in ~/wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder. Create New Admin Account in WordPress via FTP
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