Recently I noticed in Google Analytics a lot of referral to the page that doesn’t exist on my website. Visiting the page gives a 404 error. Diving deeper into Google Analytics learned me it was all referral spam from…
The default text widget in WordPress only supports HTML. You can extend the functionality of the text widget by making it possible to execute PHP. Put this code in the functions.php of the theme you are using: add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘php_text’, 99); function…
It’s very easy to track the version of WordPress you are running on your site. Because it’s that easy, it can also mean a security leak. Especially if you don’t update WordPress frequently. There is an easy way to hide…
Support of emojis are standard ever since version 4.2 of WordPress. Which is nice. But when you don’t need this, it only puts extra time to the page load and still does nothing. WordPress doesn’t have an option to turn…
When you edit a page or post the old version will automatically be saved. Every time you edit a page or post, the old version is saved. These old versions pollute the database unnecessary, especially when you never delete them.…
Theme and plugin developers often add a version number to the CSS and Javascript files. This way they force the browser to always load the most recent versions. It also causes these files not to be cached, because of the query…
When you search on a WordPress website, you always get the results page in return. Even when the result is just one post or page. With the code below you can skip the results page when the search result is…
To speed up your WordPress website, it is very useful to add the expires header to the .htaccess file. With the expires header you tell the browsers that the files that are loaded by your website, will not change for…
