In this tutorial I will look at how you can create a custom control to extend the functionality of CMB2 (Custom Meta Boxes 2) by WebDevStudios. I develop websites (and web applications) with the WordPress CMS (Content Management System), and when a new…
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Disable the WordPress Multisite Activation Step
So, you’ve created a WordPress Multisite installation, and you come to add your users. Simple right? Wrong! Multisite introduces additional authentication steps, whereby a user needs to activate their account by clicking a link that has been sent to them….
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Add Select2 as an InspectorControl in WordPress Gutenberg
For a project I was working on I wanted to use Select2 as a Gutenberg InpectorControl to allow me apply settings to a block. This tutorial will also give you the foundation you need for getting any third party React Component…
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Custom TinyMCE Editor Formatting in WordPress
Sometimes when writing a block of text using the WordPress editor, you need it to look a certain way, we usually do this by adding styles to pieces of text, but we don’t always want our clients to have to…
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Changing your WordPress site language (locale) dynamically
There are some fantastic multilingual plugins for WordPress, however for one client project I needed something far more flexible, as this particular client needed to cater for several countries that each spoke several languages. In short the client needed to…
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Enforce Version Control in WordPress to Boost Security
If you have spent a long time working on your clients website, ensuring everything is in version control (such as git). Then you would be pretty gutted if your client edits a theme file, or adds a new plugin that lives…
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Stop Clickjacking by preventing your WordPress site from Loading in a Frame
Clickjacking is a potential security risk caused by someone loading your website inside a frame on another website and making it appear as if the website is legitimate, however they will be hijacking interactions you make with that site, such…
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Prevent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) by escaping values in your WordPress templates
If you are developing a WordPress theme or plugin then it is important to make it as secure and robust as possible. One way to do this is to properly escape values that you use in your project so that…
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Custom conditional statements around your WordPress enqueued stylesheets
You may be aware that you can add conditional statements around your WordPress enqueued CSS styles (such as <!–[if gt IE 7]><link …/><![endif]–>) to load the script for certain versions of Internet Explorer. As handy as this is, it doesn’t cater for all…
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Prevent users from sharing login credentials in WordPress
As any Information Governance expert will tell you, sharing usernames and passwords is bad! Fortunately we can boost your WordPress security with this tip. Although nothing is as good as educating your users as to why they shouldn’t be sharing their…