Tweaking 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…
Read MoreOutput a Custom Taxonomy Archive by using Loop in WordPress
You can’t use a WordPress archive taxonomy page for a custom taxonomy as the custom terms are the archive – but you may want a sort of global taxonomy page that contains all the custom terms. Here is a custom taxonomy loop code snippet, which allows you to output a set of custom taxonomy terms…
Read MoreKeep WordPress database leaner by removing autoloaded options from wp_options table
In WordPress a number of autoloaded options are loaded on every page, this gathers over time with deleted themes, plugins etc and can slow down a site. Typically most options that are installed in the database are permanently stored. These options which are autoloaded are loaded on very WordPress page. To see the total size…
Read MoreChange WooCommerce Checkout Page To A 2-Column Layout
The default WooCommerce checkout page layout doesn’t make great use of a 2nd right hand column and looks a bit disjointed. Here is some CSS that can push the product order data to the 2nd column balancing the layout more evenly, making for a better user experience whilst checking out. The CSS kicks in at…
Read MoreSet up WordPress cron to run via server cron in cPanel, Cloudways and RunCloud
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 MoreUsing wp-cli commands to create and import WordPress databases
You can use wp-cli to do a number of tasks around the WordPress database including creation and importing, below are a few commands and what they do. Remove all existing WordPress tables wp db reset This will remove all existing WordPress tables and leave the db empty, but you still have a db. Delete the…
Read MoreAdd full screen window canvas to back to icons when searching in Beaver Builder
In a recent Beaver Builder update the canvas size for an icon search was humbly shrunk as some users didn’t like the vast open lands of icon city. With a bit of CSS code injected into the backend, the icon canvas size can be resized back to its former glory. Add the above code to…
Read MoreCompletely hide WooCommerce products from shop, product search and WordPress search
You can hide a WooCommerce product from the shop page and product search by choosing ‘Hidden’ in the ‘Catalog visibility’ options from the Publish metabox on a product page in the backend. This is good and it hides the product as advertised from the shop and product search results but the product is still visible…
Read MoreSet noindex nofollow on posts from specific category using Yoast WordPress SEO
Using the Yoast WordPress SEO filter wpseo_robots filter you can set posts from a specific category to have the meta tag set with noindex/nofollow. add_filter( ‘wpseo_robots’, ‘yoast_seo_robots_remove_single’ ); /** * Set certain posts to noindex nofollow */ function yoast_seo_robots_remove_single( $robots ) { if ( is_single() && has_term( ‘uncategorized’, ‘category’ ) ) { return ‘noindex,nofollow’; }…
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