I encountered a problem while sending a link to my new Wordpress site to a friend. While the link on every other platform shows exactly the same description, as it should. Discord, on the other hand, puts author above description so that when the link is sent it sais:
[mydomain.com]
admin
[description]
It is not that much of a problem but I think that it should not take a place, especially when I often link lot of things on discord.
Adding this block of code to your wordpress functions.php (use child theme if necessary)
This is the shortest method of removing the data that discord pulls in though it will remove the data from being view from every site that wants to embed a link.
/* Disable oEmbeds author name & author url ~ Stops Showing in embeds */
add_filter( 'oembed_response_data', 'disable_embeds_filter_oembed_response_data_' );
function disable_embeds_filter_oembed_response_data_( $data ) {
unset($data['author_url']);
unset($data['author_name']);
return $data;
}
Note this was taken from another post on stackOverflow and isnt my own code : there is also a more compliacted solution on this thread as well. original post
This can also have so negative effects on SEO due to not sharing the data, and we all know google loves data.
An alternative solution is to set the author of the post to the site name rather than the admin user.
Side note you really should change your username from admin to something less generic so a potentual hacker has to work out the username as well as the password.
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I would like to ask if someone can help me with this question. I can't find anywhere how to do it.
I have a website with Wordpress as a CMS. I use the plugin Restrict Content Pro to restrict access to exclusive content.
I share the post in freemium mode.
And now the question:
How could I restrict access to post comments?
I guess through something in the php code, but I don't know how.
Can anybody help me?
Thank you!
I don't use this plugin myself, but just found a good looking tutorial. Apparently, you restrict access to comments in the same way that you restrict access to anything else: By only outputting it in the theme files when the user has access to it. For example, the TwentyTwentyOne theme has a file "comments.php", which starts like this:
/*
* If the current post is protected by a password and
* the visitor has not yet entered the password,
* return early without loading the comments.
*/
if ( post_password_required() ) {
return;
}
$twenty_twenty_one_comment_count = get_comments_number();
?>
You can easily add another check beneath the password check:
/**
* Check if the user has access, don't output the comments if they don't.
*/
if ( !rcp_user_has_active_membership() ) {
return;
}
Of course, instead of returning you can also output something along the lines of "get a membership to see the comments".
The tutorial I found lists different ways to check for a membership, a paid membership and more special checks.
Two more things:
Be sure to check if there are other places where comments are displayed. That very much depends on how the WordPress theme is built.
Don't just change the theme if it comes from an external source, e.g. if it might receive updates in the future. In that case create a child theme and make your changes there instead. You can read more about child themes in the Theme Handbook.
I have created a website whereby users register and create their own templated profile pages. The profile pages are automatically created as Custom Posts upon registration, with the user being set as the Author of their specific post (profile).
(Users can only ever have one Custom Post)
I want to redirect a "dumb" URL like www.website.com/my-profile to a user's custom post when they are logged in.
For example, when John Smith visits www.website.com/my-profile he is directed to his profile page: www.website.com/users/john.smith
I have found many PHP solutions going the other way, but I can't seem to find a solution that does what I need. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
This may not be the correct answer to the original query, but proved to be a solid workaround:
Instead of redirecting www.website.com/my-profile to www.website.com/users/john.smith every time it is entered in the URL bar, I created a shortcode that could be used when needed throughout the site.
add_shortcode('bt_redirect_user_link', 'bt_redirect_user_link');
function bt_redirect_user_link ($atts) {
// check if user is logged in
if (is_user_logged_in()) {
// get current user object
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
// get user nickname
$user_nickname = $current_user->data->user_nicename;
// set the link href
$link_href = '/users/' . $user_nickname;
// output the link html
return $link_href;
}
}
Fortunately for me, the www.website.com/my-profile link (which needs to be redirected) is only available on buttons/icons visible to logged in users. This may not be a fully workable solution for websites that need to display the link to logged out users, and I assume IF/ELSE statements would needed to be added in those cases.
I have an image sharing site built on WordPress and recently I've had a lot of bots registering a user and creating a spam post with links to various sites.
After installing WP-reCAPTCHA the numbers have reduced but there are still 'attacks' every hour or so.
I'm trying to handle this programmatically now, by hooking into wp_insert_post_data (which is called whenever a post/revision is saved). I inspect the post data and if it contains a link I remove the post's content and set the status to draft so that it isn't published.
But it's still a nuisance to delete spam users and posts from the back end.
Is there a better hook I can use to stop the saving of the post even happening? i.e. can I reject the call to save the post?
Here is the code I'm currently using:
function block_spam_posts($data, $postarr) {
// if the post contains a link, set it to draft status
$post_content = $data['post_content'];
if (strpos($post_content,'http') !== false) {
$data['post_content'] = 'Post data removed by anti-spam measures.';
$data['post_status'] = 'draft';
}
}
add_filter('wp_insert_post_data', 'block_spam_posts',1,2);
Thanks for your help.
I found the answer here:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82354/how-can-i-hook-into-creating-a-new-post-and-execute-wp-die-before-the-post-is
I'm using the right hook. All I need to do is call wp_die() once the criteria for a spam post has been met.
Hope this helps others.
how to change the link in the wordpress email with newpassword?
this information we get when we click on forgot password.
username : admin
password : admin
http://www.example.com/wp-login.php
here i want to change this url "http://www.example.com/wp-login.php" and set my own url... how can i do?
some reference code:
if ( !function_exists('is_user_logged_in') ) :function is_user_logged_in() {
$user = wp_get_current_user();
You can hook into the retrieve_password_message filter
function someFunction($message, $key){
}
add_filter('retrieve_password_message', 'someFunction');
You would then have to use the "someFunction" function to parse the $message variable and change the link.
The message variable contains the entire message. So you could simply trim the message based on the number of characters then tack on your new link...
HTH
(Untested)
Using hooks would be my first thought so that you wouldn't have to edit any core files, however I have used the SB Welcome Email Editor plugin a couple times for this exact reason. Their are a couple plugins like this out their and they are fairly light weight and allow full customization of all Wordpress generated emails.
Try using a plugin such as Theme My Login, which does everything for you.
Editing core wordpress files is never a good idea, when updating wordpress, you'll loose all your work.
You can simply follow steps if you want to edit your code file.
Go to your wordpress folder. Look for the following files:
1. /wp-login.php
2. /includes/functions.php
Change the all the codes which contains wp-login.php into your custom URL.
for example: admin.php or client-login.php
Now you can changed your login/signup URL into your custom URL.
Known issue: You can find some database error if you make any mistakes. Just refresh the page and try with the customized Url it will work...
Example site I used here : http://androideveloper.com/admin.php from http://androideveloper.com/wp-login.php
Cheers.
I have a beginner question. What is the best way to address the change management issues in WordPress? I have an all-pages WordPress installation. Suppose name of some event or an entity changes from A to B, then I have to go to all the pages to make that change. Is there any better way of doing it? Like externalization or something.
Or the way similar to how WordPress handle blog name using bloginfo() function. You change blog name at one place and it is reflected everywhere.
Thanks,
Paras
If a URL on your site changes, it is always wise to leave a redirect to the new page. This will help your visitors and search engines. If you create redirects, it doesn't matter too much if you still have a link to the old address in one of your posts. There will probably be a plugin for this, but I don't know which one.
If you really want to keep all links pointing to the latest version, you could replace them with shortcodes that are evaluated to the real URL. <a href="[linkto postid=123]"> would then result in <a href="/2010/08/05/some-post">. I think this is doable, but I don't know whether a plugin already exists for this.
You can also use this technique to replace short snippets, like your company name. The Shortcode API is really easy:
// [company_name]
function replace_company_name($atts) {
return "My Awesome Company";
}
add_shortcode('company_name', 'replace_company_name');
// More generic
// [replace r='company_name']
// [replace r='company_motto']
function do_replacement($atts) {
$replacements = array(
'company_name' => 'My Awesome Company',
'company_motto' => 'A Company so Awesome even you would want to work here!',
);
return $replacements[$atts['r']];
}
add_shortcode('replace', 'do_replacement');
You can hardcode the strings in your plugin code, or you could create a Wordpress options page where users can add and edit new shortcodes.