If you already have a WordPress theme and have used the customiser to change some settings, then creating a child-theme for more advanced modifications usually means loosing your customisations, or adding them again – Migrating parent to child theme customiser settings means that you don’t loose your customizations. Method1: using Read more…
Building custom blocks for WordPress. Blocks in WordPress are built in javascript (ES5, or ESNext/JSX then compiled down to js using webpack and bable). If you have used react or vuejs you will be very familiar with this workflow. Install nodejs First, you need to have node and npm setup Read more…
Building a wordpress plugin scaffolding from scratch This is a basic walkthrough on how to create the scaffolding for a wordpress plugin from scratch. Firstly, create a repo in githubclone that repo to your machine and inside, create a file with the same name as the repo: coolplugin/coolplugin.php inside this Read more…
This is a WordPress Security mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. Read more…
Installing and configuring the fail2ban centos service fail2ban is a service for linux systems that checks log files for failed login attempts and automatically inserts firewall rules to block further attempts at logins from those IP addresses for a specified amount of time. Installing fail2ban on centos is relatively easy Read more…
Malware detection on Plesk systems using maldet and clamav Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that Read more…
It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I’ll go into some editors, IDE’s and other options for editing php code (and running a development LAMP stack) on your Read more…
Making a WordPress Theme. From Scratch. Research + Information Architecture Introduction Making a new WordPress theme from scratch can seem daunting, but it’s pretty easy if you know the steps. This series will explore the techniques you need to employ to build a WordPress theme from scratch. In the series Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
This is a short tutorial showing how to setup wordpress and cloudflare flexible ssl. Cloudflare offer a service called ‘flexible ssl’ this means that cloudflare encrypts your content between the end-user and cloudflare, but the connection between cloudflare and your site is not encrypted. This is a good solution if Read more…
If you want to set a featured image on all wordpress posts that dont already have a featured image set, then this mysql query can help: # please note that this query will fail; you have to replace ‘id_of_image_from_upload_table’ with the id of the image you uploaded. To find that Read more…
I have released multiloquent – the theme I use for jonathansblog to the public: you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/themes/multiloquent I have a github if you want a cutting-edge version (but it will be broken frequently) https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent This is the readme.txt for multiloquent theme v9 Multiloquent html5 / bootstrap theme Read more…
WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts This is a short post about setting up WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts. Buffer is an excellent service that allows posting to multiple social media sites (twitter, Facebook, google+, linkedin) If you run a wordpress site then there are Read more…
This is an easy way to change the username of your wordpress admin account: login as your current admin user navigate to users > all users add a new user make sure the role is ‘administrator’ give the user the desired username that you want the next steps are: logout Read more…
Sortable columns are a must for most admin things. usually the more the better. Post Admin Word Count is a plugin for your wordpress that adds a ‘word count’ column to your ‘show all posts’ page that is sortable, so you can now sort by word count!!
Stumbleupon have a url shortening service: su.pr they also have a plugin for wordpress that lets you shorten your urls. if you use the ‘supr by stumbleupon’ plugin in your wordpress then it will auto submit your posts to stumble upon!! to set it up: first head over to su.pr Read more…
One of the things that bugs me about the wordpress admin section is that its not easy to change the order of teh columns displayed, and its not obvious how to change the columns that are shown. there is a plugin that will let you do this (and if you Read more…
I use WordPress for this site. it is a fantastic platform, and has a lot of cool features. one of the features that I find annoying is the proofreader function. I have spellcheck in my browser, and even that doesnt match most of the technical things I write about, so Read more…
Wpscan wordpress vulnerability scanner. WPScan is a vulnerability scanner which checks the security of WordPress installations using a black box approach. WpScan checks the security of your wordpress installation by enumerating installed themes and plugins and checking against vulnerability databases for known issues. Details Username enumeration (from author querystring and Read more…
Bulletproof security is an excellent wordpress security plugin for your wordpress installationit provides a lot of cool features: XSS protectionSQL injection protectionhtaccess protectionwp-config protection, One-Click Setup WizardSetup Wizard AutoFix (AutoWhitelist|AutoSetup|AutoCleanup)MScan Malware Scanner.htaccess Website Security Protection (Firewalls)Hidden Plugin Folders|Files Cron (HPF)Login Security & MonitoringJTC-Lite (Limited version of BPS Pro JTC Anti-Spam|Anti-Hacker)Idle Read more…
This will show you how to enable the new wordpress.com stats in your self hosted wordpress blog :) they let you see pageviews per day, week, month. they also let you see search terms, etc go to your self hosted wordpress admin goto plugins > add new search for ‘jetpack’ Read more…
Ive migrated all of the comments on the site over to disqus. it has a few benefits over the builtin wordpress comments system, mainly that you can post comments using twitter, facebook and google accounts. the system is crawling my site right now and is importing all the threads.
This will show you how to get syntax highlighting in wordpress posts using the code tag. you need to install the ‘Syntax Highlighter MT 2.0’ plugin goto the wp-admin goto plugins > install new search for ‘Syntax Highlighter MT 2.0’ install it. to highlight code in the front end you Read more…
This one will speed up your wordpress a little by turning off inter-blog communication it will turn off notifications about pingbacks and trackbacks. basically, it wont generate a comment when someone links to your article, and it wont tell anyone when you link to theirs, but by doing that it Read more…
This will show you how to fix google analytics ‘bounce rate’ if you have a blog. bounce rate is a tricky one – if you have an ecommerce site, then bounce is when people dont go to your checkout, or if they do go to your checkout then dont complete Read more…
I get a lot of spam bots visiting my site and trying to post comments. akismet stops them being in my approve queue (i have to approve all of the other comments) but I wanted a way to stop the bots being able to register. I also wanted a way Read more…
Automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social Read more…
WordPress ultimate seo guide – This post is about making your wordpress perform better in search engine result pages. WordPress is pretty good, but its not perfect. this will tell you how to make it stronger. 1) what is seo? Making sure that your pages have the best chance of Read more…
Automatic facebook and twitter status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to facebook and twitter every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social network accounts the first Read more…
Defining and implementing a solid technical social media strategy. this post is all about how to get your content to as many ‘social media’ sites as possible with minimal effort and tracking it all so that you know whats happening 1 ) different types of sites, microblogging, news aggregation, etc Read more…
ive been using my ipad for a couple of months now and I have been trying out a boatload of apps. im using it like a replacement for my laptop, not for anything that needs the power of my macbook pro, but for most lightweight tasks it is perfect. here Read more…
this one is excellent. I will tell you how to make automatic facebook status updates and tweets using google calendar. what you need: properly setup google calendar and ical sync properly setup iphone syncing with gmail and google calendar properly setup ping.fm account ok; so…. there are two methods here; Read more…
since I changed the premalink structure of my posts the site has been getting a bit more traffic (I also put in some htaccess rules to stop certain bots getting to the site, which reduced overall traffic, but now I know that most prople coming to the site are actual Read more…
Ive just changed the permalink structure for my entire site, with automatic 301 url rewriting from the old url to the new url. I used a plugin called ylsy_permalink_redirect I used it to change the old permalink structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/to the new one – /%postname% if you try to access the Read more…
google is now using the speed of your site to determine your search rankings your site needs to be as fast as it can. Along with optimising your site for search results and w3c and wcag validation you now need to optimise for speed using google pagespeed. there are a Read more…
Some tips for your wordpress blog before you can optimise for search: header tags make sure you have the proper header tags in your pages dont make the title of your blog be an h1 tag only have one h1 tag per page make sure the h1 tag is on Read more…
Update: ping.fm is pretty much dead. use the twitterfeed method here instead automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every Read more…
ok, so here are a few ways to collect stats for your wordpress blog. pretty basic stuff, but very valuable google analytics – provides an excellent way to track all the users of your site, what pages they go to, where they go, how long they stay on your site, Read more…