Wordpress on Laïla Atrmouh

WordPress Curl on page returns 200 but browser returns 404

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:37:20 +0000

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I had a weird issue on a PHP script. I was returning an error 404 on a WordPress page the following way :

// At the beginning of a template page
global $wp_query;

  if ( $posts_query-&gt;post_count == 0 ) {
    $wp_query-&gt;set_404();
    status_header(404);
    get_template_part( 404 ); die();
  }

When I was accessing the error page on the browser, It worked well, I had a 404 error page displayed + the correct status code when I inspected the page (Network tab).

PHP Customize excerpt in a WordPress post

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:05:28 +0000

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add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'my_new_excerpt' );
function my_new_excerpt( $format )
{
    $format = __( ' Blabla' ); // Modify this to your needs!
    return $format;
}

Enjoy !

Increase security on a WordPress site

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:34:14 +0000

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WordPress is an extremely popular framework, which makes it easier to hack. Here are couple of ways to increase the security of your WordPress installation :

Hide your admin back-end to a list of whitelisted IPs through server rules on Apache / Nginx
Change the path to your admin back-end
Protect the wp-login.php script
Change the prefix of your tables
Use complicated passwords and change them often

For people who are not necessarily developers, the plugin « iThemes Security » does some of the steps I mentioned pretty well.