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On occasion, plugins need to refer to external files (for example, images, JavaScript, or jQuery script files) that are stored in the plugin directory. Since users are free to rename a plugin’s folder or even install plugin files straight into the WordPress plugins directory, paths to any external files must be built dynamically based on […]
A common action performed by plugins is to add extra content to the header of visitor-facing pages generated by WordPress. This recipe shows you how to register an action hook function to add such additional content. To make this example more concrete, we will use the Google Analytics page header JavaScript code that so many […]
The first step of creating a plugin is to create a directory and a PHP file in the WordPress plugins directory and add the necessary information to have it recognized by the system. In this I will show you how to create a basic plugin file for WordPress and how to activate this new extension […]
Step : 1 – Installing the PHP 7.4 and PHP Extenisons Run the following command to update apt-get itself, which ensures that you have access to the latest versions of anything you want to install: sudo apt-get update Next, install software-properties-common, which adds management for additional software sources: sudo apt -y install software-properties-common The -y flag will automatically […]
Step : 1 – Installing the PHP 7.4 and PHP Extensions To install and enable the EPEL Repository on CentOS 8, Execute the following dnf command dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm To confirm the presence of the EPEL Repository, run the following rpm command rpm -qa | grep epel Next, run the command below to add the REMI […]
If you do not know what your server’s public IP address is, there are a number of ways you can find it. Usually, this is the address you use to connect to your server through SSH. From the command line, you can find this a few ways. First, you can use the iproute2 tools to […]
This is a short guide on how to Install PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7 Linux system. The PHP Version 7.4.0 has been released in stabilization phase for the developers, and for users to test. This is not recommended to be run in Production, until the stable version of PHP 7.4 is made available to the […]
Introduction MySQL is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It uses a relational database and SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage its data. CentOS 7 prefers MariaDB, a fork of MySQL managed by the original MySQL developers and designed as a replacement for MySQL. If […]
Step : 1 – Installing Apache and Allow 80 & 443 Ports in the Firewall Run the following command to update apt-get itself, which ensures that you have access to the latest versions of anything you want to install: sudo apt-get update Next, Install the Apache webserver by using the following command. sudo apt-get install […]
Image size plays important role in overall website speed, if you optimize images with decent file size then your website will load faster. You may have already seen this in Google Page Speed Insights and GTMetrix. In WordPress, it is easy to compress/optimize the images with the help of WordPress Image Compression Plugins. These are […]