functions.php Archives

Replace Howdy WordPress

PHP, Snippets, WordPress • July 25, 2019

Log into WordPress and there it is in the top corner: “Howdy.” Friendly enough, but it doesn’t fit every site, and

SEO, Snippets, WordPress • May 16, 2018

Someone lands on a dead URL, hits a bare 404, and bounces. It stings, so the tempting fix is to send

Someone leaves a comment, drops a link in the website field, and now their name is a live link pointing off

PHP, Snippets, WordPress • March 4, 2018

Some CDNs choke on query strings. WordPress adds a ?ver= tag to every script and style URL, and a few CDNs

Snippets, WordPress • February 23, 2018

You dropped a shortcode into a widget title and it printed as plain text, brackets and all. That is WordPress doing

Snippets, WordPress • February 9, 2018

Quick heads up before you copy anything: this one is old. It dates to WordPress 4.9, which shipped back in 2017.