Set up WordPress wp-cron.php to run via real cron in cPanel, Cloudways and with Caching
By default the WordPress tasks that have been set up to run with wp-cron.php only run when a WordPress page is visited by a user, if the site has low traffic then tasks make take a while to action, if the site is high traffic and has caching then this can also cause reliability issues,…
Read MoreGetting Browsersync running with Gulp 4 and Valet
Get Browsersync going with Gulp 4+ and Valet as a local development environment. With Gulp 4+ there has been some code upgrades that require any older gulp.js files to be updated, this guide looks at making Browsersync work with Gulp with the local development tool being Valet. nodejs Ensure you already have nodejs and npm…
Read MoreAdding Expires Header to htaccess
Expires Headers are a set of rules or directives from a website to tell a user’s local browser to either look in its own cache for files or to request the files off the webserver, the former is better for speed of the web page load and a reduction in the webserver processing. For Apache…
Read MoreSet Up Valet on macOS for Local WordPress Development
This is a guide on how to set up Laravel Valet on macOS for a WordPress local development environment. Using Valet as a WordPress local development solution has the main benefits of speed, being lightweight and using fewer configurations to go wrong than say a solution like Vagrant. There is a 2nd related article that…
Read MoreBlock xmlrpc.php requests from Cloudflares firewall apart from JetPack
You can block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests from Cloudflare but exclude the JetPack IP addresses by creating a custom firewall rule, attacks on xmlrpc.php are frequent and it is best now disabled as it will be deprecated from WordPress in the future. However, some of the more popular WordPress plugins such as JetPack still need to…
Read MoreChange WooCommerce Sold Out text
You can change WooCommerce ‘Sold Out’ text set by the inventory setting of Sold Out with the WooCommerce filter woocommerce_get_availability_text Add the below snippet with your custom sold text to functions.php add_filter(‘woocommerce_get_availability_text’, ‘themeprefix_change_soldout’, 10, 2 ); /** * Change Sold Out Text to Something Else */ function themeprefix_change_soldout ( $text, $product) { if ( !$product->is_in_stock()…
Read MoreUsing WooCommerce with Varnish, exclude pages and cookies
To use WooCommerce with Varnish server-side caching you need to exclude some of the generic WooCommerce pages and cookies. Some web hosts will partially do this for you and others will give you an interface to add them yourself, make sure you ask the host what options are available Exclude from Varnish these WooCommerce pages…
Read MoreRedirect all pages to non-www and HTTPS in WordPress
To redirect all URLs from www to non-www and also to redirect from http to https, this code snippet to be added to .htaccess file at the top should do the trick. So https://example.com # BEGIN Redirects RewriteEngine On # 301 redirect www to non-www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1/$1 [R=301,L] # 301…
Read MoreCreate An ACF Repeater Bootstrap Accordion in WordPress
Create An ACF Repeater Bootstrap Accordion for use in WordPress. Accordions can be a handy way of managing larger amounts of data to display only certain bits at a time this guide shows how to use a Boostrap accordion with ACF, a non-bootstrap guide is here. Create the ACF Repeater fields for the Bootstrap accordion.…
Read MoreCreate A Bootstrap 4 Carousel Slider With ACF Image Repeater
Create a Bootstrap 4 carousel slider of images with ACF Pro Repeater field in WordPress. There are a few options in that the carousel can be plain, add navigation and add a caption, 4 examples can be seen below. Create the ACF Repeater fields for Bootstrap carousel. Here an image and text field…
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