This is a common question I get from folks in the WordPress community. How can I “ lock things down” and prevent any changes to plugins, themes, and WordPress core files. For example, how to prevent any themes and/or plugins from being updated or deleted, and how to prevent…
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Round Up: 18 Free Plugins to Help Troubleshoot and Debug WordPress
I’ ve written numerous tutorials explaining how to troubleshoot WordPress, plugins, email, and more. When investigating issues, diagnosing problems, and hunting bugs, troubleshooting is a critical core skill for any web developer. To help readers level up their tool belt, here’ s a quick round-up of…
The Difference Between Taxonomies, Categories, and Tags (Oh My!)
A common question for new WordPress users is, “ what’ s the difference between categories and tags?” Like everyone knows what a “ category” is, but the idea of “ tags” can seem very similar. And then you throw in related WordPress concepts like “ taxonomy” , and things can get confusing very quickly….
Stay Logged in to WordPress
I work from home so can afford to leave tabs open for each of my WordPress sites. That way I can jump on anytime and update or add new content very quickly. The problem I kept running into is that WordPress automatically logs out users after 48 hours…
How to Disable Embeds for Any Specific URLs
Quick tip: how to disable embeds for any URL (s). The other day I was adding URL s to a draft post in WordPress. Some of the URLs were for Twitter tweets. Checking a preview of the post on the front end, I was surprised that WordPress had…
How to Add Custom Code to WordPress
There are many books and tutorials that share useful code snippets for WordPress. For example, you can find hundreds of custom functions right here at DigWP.com. You can also find them in my WordPress books, tutorials, and code snippets. For many code snippets and…