Category: WordPress
WordPress Plugin Recommendations
This article is meant to keep track of what I feel to be the best in WordPress plugins. These are my top recommendations for the general needs of a WordPress site.
Sitemap error: error on line 2 or 4 (number could vary) at column 6 (could vary): XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
This page contains the following errors: error on line 4 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-error-error-on-line-2-at-column-6-xml-declaration-allowed-only-at-the/ Plugin SupportMichael Tina (@mikes41720) 1 year, 9 months ago Hello, This typically happens when a plugin […]
How To Display 9999 Galleries on the Manage Galleries page
navigate to htdocs\public_html\wp-content\plugins\nextgen-gallery\products\photocrati_nextgen\modules\ngglegacy\admin\manage-galleries.php Edit line 15 to whatever amount
How to make the galleries sort alphabetically for the dropdown in the Add Gallery /Images page
Navigate in Explorer to htdocs\public_html\wp-content\plugins\nextgen-gallery\products\photocrati_nextgen\modules\nextgen_addgallery_page\templates\upload_images.php Add the following code to the top: <?php if(!function_exists(“my_cmp”)) { function my_cmp($a, $b) { if ($a->title == $b->title) { return 0; } return ($a->title < $b->title) ? -1 : 1; } } usort($galleries, “my_cmp”); ?>
Change WordPress Password Manually (via PHPMyAdmin)
go to your databases’s wp-users table edit the user you want to modify In the password field, enter desired password, but use MD5 as field type log in! 😀
Defining Site and Home URL in config
This is will go in your theme’s functions.php file define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://yourdomain.com’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://yourdomain.com’);
Comprehensive Debugging
//Report all types of errors. define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); //Don’t show errors to site visitors. define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false); //Put logs in wp-content. CAUTION: Hacking hazard define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true); @ini_set(‘display_errors’,’On’); @ini_set(‘error_reporting’, E_ALL ); @ini_set ( ‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true ); @ini_set(‘log_errors’, ‘On’); @ini_set(‘error_log’, ‘/home/sage/xhub.fun.log’); // Simple, elegant /////////////////////////////////////////////////// // TODO: Explain “Simple, elegant” // TODO: Define top […]
En queue scripts the right way
How to asynchronously or defer loading JS and CSS files in your theme’s functions.php file. Loading JS and CSS this way cuts down on your load times.
Ensure CSS or JS is fresh on each save
function my_scripts_and_styles(){ $cache_buster = date(“YmdHi”, filemtime( get_stylesheet_directory() . ‘/style.css’)); wp_enqueue_style( ‘main’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), $cache_buster, ‘all’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘my_scripts_and_styles’, 1);