"1001" amazing WordPress tricks you need to know

Just like the title of the post above I said.

In this article, I will show you all the WordPress tricks.

Which Hawk finds the best and most useful for any WordPress website.

You can freely apply it to your website, or play around to learn WordPress.

Let’s get started now…

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1. Change the default login URL

This is one of the tricks, I encourage you to do it immediately.

It’s quite simple but helps you avoid spam or brute force attack.

Everyone knows, by default the admin login path will have the form: dieuhau/wp-admin.

Even now, there are many websites with default login url.

The next worst thing is that User and Password are also very easy to figure out

Admin
123456789
admin
iloveyou
12345678
Password
…

And hackers simply create a scanning tool, and maybe your website is among them.

So changing the login URL and creating a strong password is essential.

The simplest way is that you can use plugins like:

They all have the feature to change the login path easily.

2. Change the interface of the Login page

If you are bored with the default interface when logging in.

You can completely customize it to your liking in the following ways.

Go to your current theme folder wp-content/themes/ten-cua-theme/.

Create a folder named "Login", then create a file in that folder custom-login-styles.css.

Next, go to the function.php file and add the code below:

  function my_custom_login() {  echo '&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory') . '/login/custom-login-styles.css" /&gt;';  }  add_action('login_head', 'my_custom_login');

Okie now you just need to customize the CSS to the file custom-login-style.css is to be.

To change the logo you can use the following CSS, remember to change the values.

And the logo will be 80px by 80px.

Add title to appear with logo

function my_login_logo_url_title() {      return 'Your Site Name and Info';  }  add_filter( 'login_headertitle', 'my_login_logo_url_title' );

Change the recording path by clicking on the logo

function my_login_logo_url() {      return "https://www.example.com";  }  add_filter( 'login_headerurl', 'my_login_logo_url' );

3. Disable post revisions

Post revision is one of the great features of WordPress.

However, some people will not like it very much, because it burdens your database.

It’s very simple, you just need to add the following code to the file wp-config.php.

define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 120 ); // seconds  define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false );

This code will help you completely disable Post Revisions function.

And increased auto save time from 60 to 120s.

4. Delete existing post revisions

Above, I have instructed to disable the post revision function.

So how to delete all existing post revisions in WordPress.

Run the SQL statement from PHPMyAdmin:

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type="revision";

5. Tạo child theme

If you often edit the code on the theme.

Definitely using a child theme is essential, it helps you to update without losing old customizations.

It’s very simple, just create a folder named your-child-theme.

In which create 1 css file as follows:

/*  Theme Name: Child Theme Name  Template: parenttheme  */  @import url("../parenttheme/style.css");

To learn more about Child Theme you can refer to the article:

6. Tạo custom page template trong WordPress

By default, a website will display the lastest (latest post) on the homepage.

You can change it, and choose any page as homepage.

Just enter Setting » Reading

Or if you don’t like it, you can create your own homepage template.

Create a file named custom-homepage-template.php.

And add the following code, remember to save it.

  &lt;?php /* Template Name: Custom Homepage */ ?&gt;

Then upload the custom-homepage-template.php file to the wp-content/themes/ten-theme/ folder.

Go back to create a new page you will see the name Custom Home in the template section.

Note that this page is completely white, you can customize it yourself.

Or use the page builder to drag and drop if you don’t know the code.

7. Allow users to subscribe to comments

By default, users will not be able to know that you have replied to their comment.

So how do users know you just replied to their comment?

That is to allow users to track their comments.

When you respond, an email notification will be sent to the user

Simply install the plugin Subscribe to Comment Reload.

Then you just need to Active and Setting for the plugin.

8. Install Google Analytics for the website

Of course, every website needs to have Google Analytics installed.

Keeping track of parameters is essential for future plans.

Now in addition to installing Google Analytics directly.

You can already use Google Tag Manager to install and combine all tags in one place.

Easier to manage, easier to change tags.

9. Customize Gravatar Image

By default, WordPress will use Gravatar to display the avatar for the user profile.

If that user doesn’t have a Gravatar, then WP will use the default images bundled as "Mystery Permission".

You can easily see them in the comments (mostly few Gravatar users).

If you want to choose your own branded images.

Then it can be changed in the following way:

First, upload those images to the media.

Then add the following code to the function.php file.

  add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'dieuhau_new_gravatar' );  function dieuhau_new_gravatar ($avatar_defaults) {  $myavatar="http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/dieuhau-default-gravatar.png";  $avatar_defaults[$myavatar] = "Default Gravatar";  return $avatar_defaults;  }