Category: WordPress

Taxonomies are a very powerful but less understood and less used feature of WordPress. In this post, I’ll gather different topics related to WordPress taxonomies, solving issues and solutions to different situations. How to get value of specific custom taxonomy for current post To get the value of specific taxonomy for current post, we’ll use […]

I’ve been trying to customize the awesome support plugin for wordpress. I wanted to allow the admin and agents to create tickets from frontend while reply to them from the front end too! However there seems to be no option for that in their backend. Upon searching, I found some incomplete replies from the author […]

One of my client contacted me regarding the issue that their WordPress site having avada theme broke after updating to wordpress 4.4, released yesterday. The issue was that the blog short code in the theme wasn’t working as expected and wasn’t showing the blog posts at all. The issue was confusing, initially it was considered […]

WordPress released version 4.4 today, named: Clifford. It’s given this name in the honor of Clifford Brown, the jazz trumpeter. In the new era of being responsive and more connectivity, WordPress has made huge improvements in this release and improves these functions. A new theme is also included with this version call Twenty Sixteen. What’s […]

While coding a theme for submission at WordPress.org theme directory, I was trying to allow theme users to add custom code like adsense ads or google analytics for website analytics, however options framework uses sanitization to clear the code before it adds it to the wordpress database using the global variable of WordPress “$allowedposttags”. This […]

While trying to show the author bio on the single posts on WordPress site, you may have encountered the issue of not being able to add html tags or line breaks in your author biographical info. This post isn’t about adding html tags to the biographical info btw, it’s about adding linebreaks only. Yes both […]

You may have recently switched from apache to nginx web server and realized that the rewriting structure of nginx is totally different from the apache one. First of all nginx doesn’t use .htaccess file normally, secondly the commands used in the nginx.conf file for the site aren’t the same syntax as the .htaccess one. Please […]

This is the post in series of making your server 50-90% faster just with few tips, saving your server load, improving page load speed and seo, and also saving lots of $ on upgrading the hosting server. Why to protect wp-login.php and wp-comments-post.php on WordPress? WordPress is an amazing and widely used platform for blogging […]

Aim of this post is to elaborate how to protect your wp-login.php and wp-comments.php on Apache based servers so that you can not only secure them but also free up 50-90% server load. Brute force attacks and bots No matter how much you deny, your WordPress site is constantly under bots and bruteforce attack. The […]