Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) allows you to easily scan all of your theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code. The plugin searches source files of every installed theme for any signs of hidden malicious code or injection etc.
And if such code is present on your WordPress theme, the plugin will display you the path to that specific theme file, the line number, and snippet of the suspected code to be removed.
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WordPress Transients works like a basic built-in cache system used by WordPress core and theme. Transients API is used by theme developers, it offers a simple and standardized way of storing cached data in database temporarily by giving it a custom name and a time-frame after which it will expire and be deleted.
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By default BuddyPress menus such as personal activity, notifications, profile, settings and messages are automatically added to WordPress admin bar.
But now there is no need to stick with WordPress admin tool bar on frontend just because it shows BuddyPress networking menus. Because now you can easily add BuddyPress’s personal and account menu items to any menu location using built-in WordPress navigation settings.
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Gmail is now the most used emailing service but custom keyboard shortcut and hotkeys support is rather an unknown feature of Gmail.
This is because by default Gmail keeps it disabled. But if you spend most of your time in reading and writing emails then you can easily enable it for quicker navigation between inbox, drafts, contacts, tasks and other important sections on Gmail.
You can not only activate keyboard shortcuts but also create your own custom ones to compose, send, search emails and much more.
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WP Super Cache is a popular and featured cache plugin, officially developed by WordPress core programmers and Automattic team. The plugin can be used everywhere such as on shared hosting plans, VPS and dedicated servers.
It powers WordPress with a very fast caching engine that produces static HTML files to better your loading time and reduce resource usage.
When HTML files are generated, your webserver starts to serve those files instead of processing PHP queries. Hence, less resources are used and website loads faster than before.
These static files are served to majority of your visitors, but when a user’s details are shown in the comment form, as they leave a comment then in that case requests are handled by the legacy caching engine.
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A few hours back, we have discussed about automatically redirecting users to their specific website, as soon they login to your WordPress multisite network.
But once a successful login is made, it won’t get called again with that code and thereafter if any user attempts to get access to other’s website, he will easily get it.
So how to enforce redirection to logged-in user’s respective website? In this lesson you will learn about getting this job done with an easy PHP function.
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You can automatically redirect users to their respective sub-site after login in your WordPress multisite network. This can easily be done either by adding some code in your theme’s function.php file or via Code Snippets plugin.
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A few days back we have discussed about bulk deleting pages on a MediaWiki website and yesterday a user told us that he accidentally ended-up deleting some very important pages off from his website.
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By default recapcha is only shown when MediaWiki users try to create new account, add URL or attempt bad login. In this lesson you will learn how to extend this functionality and enable recaptcha on creation of new pages, page edits and logins etc.
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WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache are two most popular cache plugins for WordPress websites. Both plugins are designed to generate cache of your website in order to make it fast and perform better on world wide web.
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You can selectively hide parts of any MediaWiki page from its mobile view. It means you can set certain page sections to show only on desktop view and not on tablets and smartphones.
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There are various plugins that allows your users to share posts on social networking websites. Earlier we have discussed about adding Whats App sharing button in WordPress, read:
Now you may also activate SMS sharing button so that your users would be able to share your content by sending links to mobile numbers via SMS.
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Default MediaWiki installation is not programmed to go responsive on many mobile devices (i.e. smartphones and tablets). It is not mobile optimized and hence you will have to use additional skins or extensions to make a responsive MediaWiki website.
Otherwise your website may be difficult to view, with menus, layouts and media, not appearing in the best place on small screen devices.
In this lesson you will learn about completely optimizing your MediaWiki website for mobile devices, implementing a responsive layout to make it look good on all screen types.
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Default MediaWiki installation doesn’t provides you any feature to delete multiple pages at once. And no matter how many protections are active, spamming will always be present to a certain level unless you are running a completely private wiki.
Bot flood is the most common attack that happens on most wiki websites. In this attack, one or more vandals may attempt to run bots that can edit, move and create new pages at a very high speed and upload unwelcome versions of images.
As said by MediaWiki developers, “This is the most frequent kind of vandalism on most wikis and usually done for spam purpose.” We have already discussed about enabling ReCAPTCHA on MediaWiki in order to minimize such type of spams.
Now today in this lesson you will learn about deleting spam and unwanted pages in bulk on your MediaWiki installation.
Core automatic upgrade feature was introduced in WordPress Version 2.7. While doing automatic upgrade WordPress places a file named .maintenance in your website’s root directory.
The file is shown during automatic and manual updates made from WordPress admin section. But sometimes when WordPress fail in completing the update process (especially when your PHP memory is hitting its resources or during some communication error etc), it keeps showing, “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” message on every page of your website.
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When it comes to optimizing your WordPress website, the question comes, how to? Now no worries, in this lesson you will learn about automatically optimizing your website and minifying JavaScript, CSS and HTML files which are pushed into header when you activate new plugins and themes in your WordPress installation.
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You can instantly turn any web-browser like Google Chrome, Firefox & Safari etc into a notepad, take note of things, then save everything. All this without installing any notepad app in your web-browser.
You can also hide main page title on the home page of your MediaWiki website via CSS. Changing ‘Main Page’ title is also one option to get rid from ‘Main Page’ H1 heading text but then it starts to show small ‘Redirected from Main Page’ text on your wiki’s home page.
Like all other lively websites, MediaWiki is also a common target for spam bots. As soon you get backlinks and your website is listed on search engines, it becomes easy for spammers to find your website and use it for the promotion of their products or web content.
Continue reading How To Use Google ReCaptcha On MediaWiki Website?
Google is now trying to pursue iPhone users. The new app by Google is going to link Android watches to Apple iPhones. Likewise, till now Android watches were only programmed to work with Android smartphones. Similarly, Apple Watches are designed to be used exclusively with iPhones.
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Google uses page speed to rank any website on its search results page. Hence, removing query strings from static resources improves the performance of your website.
This not only betters your performance on SERPs but also enhances user experience, because no one wants to visit a website that takes lots of seconds to load.
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