Add Dot Pagination to WooCommerce Product Gallery Image Slider
You can add dot pagination to WooCommerce Product Gallery images by adding a filter and then some CSS. WooCommerce uses a slider called Flexslider which it has a few more configurable options. By default the product gallery navigation uses thumbnails but this can be swapped to dots by changing the ‘controlNav’ value. In functions.php add…
Read MoreChange WordPress Database Table Prefix Back To wp_
Here is how to change the WordPress database tables back to the default wp_ prefix. First thing is to change the php constant table prefix in wp-config.php Change the wp-config.php constant $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; Change the table prefixes in phpMyAdmin Next open your WordPress database in phpMyadmin, select all the tables and choose the option…
Read MoreChange Number of Posts Displaying on a Custom Post Type (CPT) Archive Page
To change the number of posts that appear in an archive page for a custom post type you can change the number using the pre_get_posts action with some passed in parameters. Normally the number of posts displayed per page is defaulted to the setting in the Dashboard Reading Settings > Blog pages show at most –…
Read MorePosition WooCommerce Checkout Spinning Icon On Page
WooCommerce checkout page uses a spinning loader icon while the page goes through a series of ajax refreshes throughout the checkout process. The spinning icon is a visual clue to the user to wait until it stops spinning that the page is updated and ready for the next step, however some WordPress themes may not…
Read MoreHide WordPress Admin Toolbar Based On User Role
You can hide the WordPress admin toolbar to logged in users based on their user role and capabilities. First of all you can hide the toolbar on all front end pages from all users by adding to your functions.php add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ ); Lets say you wanted regular subscriber users not to see the toolbar when…
Read MoreAdd a banner based on Custom Taxonomy Term in a Beaver Themer Posts Module loop
How you can add a banner to a post in a loop in a Beaver Builder posts module using a custom layout based on a custom taxonomy term. First up is to create you Custom Taxonomy either with a plugin or add code yourself. Once the taxonomy is ready, assign certain posts to it. Next…
Read MoreUse 7G WAF Firewall with OpenLiteSpeed on a RunCloud instance
You can use the 7G WAF FIrewall from Jeff Starr at Perishable Press with a web app running ontop of OpenLiteSpeed using htaccess. This can also be used on a RunCloud OLS server (they already have a GUI 7G install for NGINX as part of their web stack). For OLS you add the 7G WAF…
Read MoreBlock xmlrpc.php WordPress running on OpenLiteSpeed using .htaccess
You can block the xmlrpc.php WordPress file when running on OpenLiteSpeed by adding a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file. This will reduce the brute force threat of bots making multiple resource requests. Add to your webroot .htaccess file either add it in a mod_rewrite existing block or add a new one: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteRule…
Read MoreTweaking RunCloud Servers After Deployment
Here are some references for various fix ups or tweaks that I apply to servers with a RunCloud control panel. These are not all done inclusively, depends on the need. Change root password You root password initially generated by your host provider might be on the weak side always best to change and strengthen it.…
Read MoreBlock wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php via fail2ban on RunCloud
How to ban IP addresses that are brute forcing your wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php on a WordPress install with fail2ban on a RunCloud server. Email yourself any fail2ban IP addresses. Add a WordPress fail2ban filter Create a wordpress.conf file in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ [Definition] failregex = ^<HOST> .* “POST .*wp-login.php ^<HOST> .* “POST .*xmlrpc.php ignoreregex = If using…
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