WordPress is a specially crafted platform to publish content on the web. Many of the big giant content publishers are using WordPress like CNN, NYTimes, etc. You, as a content writer, find WordPress deadly easy and super cool to work on because WordPress provides many customizations to make your content looks good, and also many of us are spending time to add some spice to WordPress. Here I want you to add even more to your content writing experience.
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What is WordPress nonce and how it works?
Today, I am going to share with you a tip that how we can make our WordPress plugins are themes more secure. I have seen in my plugins and themes where WordPress developers are not using WordPress nonces even though it is VERY important. If you are working as a WordPress freelancer developer and g custom plugins or themes, I am sure this article is going to be very helpful for you.
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How to make WordPress database secure by changing default WordPress table prefix?
WordPress Database Security is the most important thing. Every single piece of information stored in it, which makes hackers and bots to target for stealing information by applying SQL Injection.
WordPress Database uses a default table prefix value “wp_” for all of its database tables. Typically, every website that is running WordPress will have its database tables with this prefix and this can surely be used by the hackers or malicious bots to guess your database table names. That’s why the smartest thing to do while creating a WordPress website is to change the prefix of the database, which can be done easily.
How To Create Custom Post Types In WordPress Admin?
Now a days, WordPress is not just a blogging platform. From past few years, WordPress has become a robust content management system. By default, WordPress has two main post types:
- Post
- Pages
but you can create your own custom content types you want, these custom content types are referred as custom post types. So when the WordPress is giving you the option to go beyond blogging platform and line up your content management system so there is no reason not to create custom post type WordPress. So today we will show you how you can easily create your own custom post types.
How To Interact With An API Using WordPress Standard Functions?
To interact with APIs is a very common thing in Web Development, WordPress gives us the utility functions to interact with APIs. As you know to interact with an API requires good knowledge of cURL and many other things, WordPress takes this responsibility and wrap the inner stories into utility functions for you.
“wp_remote_get“ is the function that gets the data for you from an API. All you have to do is just put the endpoint as an argument and voila! It’s magic.
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