WordPress Configuration
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BackWPUp (BackWPup)
I use this for backups, didn't try restore yet at this point however.
WP-Members (Chad Butler)
WP-Members Options:
- Content Restriction: Posts: not blocked
- Private posts are used for subscribers, see modifications and remarks below
- Content Restriction: Pages: blocked
- Per-page visibility setting
- Show: none
- Auto summary: none
- New Feature Settings: default (no)
- Other Settings: Memberships: no
- Other Settings: Notify admin: yes
- Other Settings: Moderate registration: yes
- Other Settings: Confirmation Link: yes
- Other Settings: Ignore warning messages: yes
- These are mainly ads and updates
- Pages: Login: "Inloggen"
- Pages: Registration: "Registreren"
- Pages: Profile: "Profile"
- is needed for the password reset link to work, and also for the links in the E-mails
- Fields: minimum fields and translation
- Dialogs: translation
- Emails: translation
- Other Settings: Enable CAPTCHA: reCAPTCHA v2
- Captcha: Used a google account to get a Key en Secret
- with reCAPTCHA v3 you will get an autopmatic check and icon on every page of your website. With v2 you will only see it on the registration page.Google: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#whyrecaptcha
WordPress Modifications to "functions.php" or "wp-config.php"
The file 'functions.php' is part of the thema you are using and should be in the thema's folder. The thema here is twenty-twenty-four-wjv. Where not mentioned otherwise, the modifications in these paragraphs are inserted in the functions.php -file of this theme. Make sure you create and use a child-theme because any changes will be overwritten when the thema is updated.
sudo nano /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twenty-twenty-four-wjv/functions.php
Include field values in page text with shortcode
This allows you to include a first_name or other fields in a weppage by using a shortcode.
/**
* User Meta Shortcode handler
* usage: [USER_META user_id=1 meta="first_name"]
* or: [USER_META meta="first_name"]
* @param array $atts
* @param string $content
* @return string
*/
function wjv_meta_shortcode_handler($atts,$content=null) {
if (isset($atts['user_id']) || array_key_exists('user_id', $atts)) {
$c_user_id = $atts['user_id'];
}
else {
$c_user_id = wp_get_current_user()->ID;
}
return esc_html(get_user_meta($c_user_id, $atts['meta'], true));
}
add_shortcode('USER_META', 'wjv_meta_shortcode_handler');
Use Custom Profile for non-admin users
When a normal user is logged in to the website the "Update Profile" -link at the comments would direct to the WordPress profile page. The following will change this to a link of your choosing.
/**
* Custom profile for subscribers, this makes sure all Profile-links go to your designated page.
*/
add_action( 'load-profile.php', 'rpa_customprofile_check' );
function rpa_customprofile_check() {
if ( ! current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
wp_redirect( add_query_arg( array( 'pcustomprofile' => 1), site_url('/profile&a=edit') ) );
exit();
}
}
Hide toolbar
After a normal user is logged in to the website the WordPress toolbar would appear. The following wil hide the toolbar in this case.
/**
* Limiting toolbar to only users who can "manage_options"
* such as admins in a default WP install.
*/
if ( ! current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
}
Allow subscribers to view private posts
Blocked posts would still be visible as a title and a summary to the public, you can limit the summary with the "more" tag. Clicking the post brings a signed-in subscriber to the whole content or else to a sign-in message.
By allowing "private" posts to signed-in members you can still hide them completely from the public but show them to subscribers.
Info:
/**
* Make Private Posts visible to Subscribers
*/
function wjv_private_posts_subscribers(){
$subRole = get_role( 'subscriber' );
$subRole->add_cap( 'read_private_posts' );
$subRole->add_cap( 'read_private_pages' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'wjv_private_posts_subscribers' );
Remove or replace title prefix "Private: "
If you did the above you might want to remove the "Private" prefix. This can be done with the below code. Note that this needs to be modified depending on your website's language.
/**
* Edit title prefixes
*/
function the_title_trim($title) {
$title = attribute_escape($title);
$findthese = array('#Privé: (.*)#','#Private: (.*)#');
$replacewith = array('$1','$1');
$title = preg_replace($findthese, $replacewith, $title);
return $title;
}
add_filter('the_title', 'the_title_trim');
Add E-mail function
WP-Members uses the native WP function wp_mail to send all emails. This is a native WordPress function and is generally robust.
Info:
/**
* E-mail function
* NB: constants in wp-config.php
*/
function wjv_send_smtp_email( $phpmailer ) {
$phpmailer->isSMTP();
$phpmailer->Host = SMTP_HOST;
$phpmailer->Username = SMTP_USER;
$phpmailer->Password = SMTP_PASSWORD;
$phpmailer->From = SMTP_FROM;
$phpmailer->FromName = SMTP_FROMNAME;
$phpmailer->Port = SMTP_PORT;
$phpmailer->SMTPAuth = SMTP_AUTH;
$phpmailer->SMTPSecure = SMTP_SECURE;
$phpmailer->SMTPDebug = SMTP_DEBUG;
}
add_action( 'phpmailer_init', 'wjv_send_smtp_email' );
The best place for configuration is "wp-config.php":
sudo nano /var/www/wpvvb/wp-config.php
/** * Define constants for SMTP settings * SMTP Port for SSL: 465 * SMTP Port for TLS/STARTTLS: 587 */ define( 'SMTP_HOST', 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com' ); define( 'SMTP_USER', 'user1@yahoo.com' ); define( 'SMTP_PASSWORD', '****' ); define( 'SMTP_FROM', 'user1@yahoo.com' ); define( 'SMTP_FROMNAME', 'WordPress - user1@yahoo.com' ); define( 'SMTP_PORT', '587' ); define( 'SMTP_AUTH', true ); define( 'SMTP_SECURE', 'tls' ); define( 'SMTP_DEBUG', 2 );
Halt search query in the case of an empty search
By default you will get all results. Tjis modification will allow you to use the link "/?s=" to go to the search-screen without any results.
add_filter( 'posts_search', function( $search, \WP_Query $q )
{
if( ! is_admin() && empty( $search ) && $q->is_search() && $q->is_main_query() )
$search .=" AND 0=1 ";
return $search;
}, 10, 2 );
Add duplicate-button to posts
You can pick a post that has most of the make-up you want to use, duplicate and edit it.
/**
* Duplicate a post
*/
function dt_dpp_post_as_draft() {
global $wpdb;
/*sanitize_GET POST REQUEST*/
$post_copy = sanitize_text_field( $_POST["post"] );
$get_copy = sanitize_text_field( $_GET['post'] );
$request_copy = sanitize_text_field( $_REQUEST['action'] );
$opt = get_option('dpp_wpp_page_options');
$suffix = !empty($opt['dpp_post_suffix']) ? ' -- '.$opt['dpp_post_suffix'] : '';
$post_status = !empty($opt['dpp_post_status']) ? $opt['dpp_post_status'] : 'draft';
$redirectit = !empty($opt['dpp_post_redirect']) ? $opt['dpp_post_redirect'] : 'to_list';
if (! ( isset( $get_copy ) || isset( $post_copy ) || ( isset($request_copy) && 'dt_dpp_post_as_draft' == $request_copy ) ) )
{
wp_die('No post!');
}
/* Get post id */
$post_id = (isset($get_copy) ? $get_copy : $post_copy );
$post = get_post( $post_id );
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$new_post_author = $current_user->ID;
/*
* if post data exists, create the post duplicate
*/
if (isset( $post ) && $post != null) {
/* Post data array */
$args = array('comment_status' => $post->comment_status,
'ping_status' => $post->ping_status,
'post_author' => $new_post_author,
'post_content' => $post->post_content,
'post_excerpt' => $post->post_excerpt,
'post_name' => $post->post_name,
'post_parent' => $post->post_parent,
'post_password' => $post->post_password,
'post_status' => $post_status,
'post_title' => $post->post_title.$suffix,
'post_type' => $post->post_type,
'to_ping' => $post->to_ping,
'menu_order' => $post->menu_order
);
/*
* insert the post by wp_insert_post() function
*/
$new_post_id = wp_insert_post( $args );
/*
* get all current post terms and set them to the new post draft
*/
$taxonomies = get_object_taxonomies($post->post_type);
if(!empty($taxonomies) && is_array($taxonomies)):
foreach ($taxonomies as $taxonomy) {
$post_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post_id, $taxonomy, array('fields' => 'slugs'));
wp_set_object_terms($new_post_id, $post_terms, $taxonomy, false);}
endif;
/*
* duplicate all post meta just in two SQL queries
*/
$post_meta_infos = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT meta_key, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id=$post_id");
if (count($post_meta_infos)!=0) {
$sql_query = "INSERT INTO $wpdb->postmeta (post_id, meta_key, meta_value) ";
foreach ($post_meta_infos as $meta_info) {
$meta_key = $meta_info->meta_key;
$meta_value = addslashes($meta_info->meta_value);
$sql_query_sel[]= "SELECT $new_post_id, '$meta_key', '$meta_value'";
}
$sql_query.= implode(" UNION ALL ", $sql_query_sel);
$wpdb->query($sql_query);
}
/*
* redirect
*/
wp_redirect( admin_url( 'post.php?action=edit&post=' . $new_post_id ) );
exit;
}
else {
wp_die('Post creation failed, could not find original post: ' . $post_id);
}
}
add_action( 'admin_action_rd_duplicate_post_as_draft', 'dt_dpp_post_as_draft' );
//Add the duplicate link to action list for post_row_actions
function rd_duplicate_post_link( $actions, $post ) {
if (current_user_can('edit_posts')) {
$actions['duplicate'] = '<a href="' . wp_nonce_url('admin.php?action=rd_duplicate_post_as_draft&post=' . $post->ID, basename(__FILE__), 'duplicate_nonce' ) . '" title="Duplicate this item" rel="permalink">Duplicate</a>';
}
return $actions;
}
add_filter( 'post_row_actions', 'rd_duplicate_post_link', 10, 2 );
Add Republish-button to posts
The publish date of a post is not updated automatically when you edit. With this button you can update it to the current date and time.
/** wjv
* add republish action to Posts
*/
function dt_dpp_republish() {
$post_copy = sanitize_text_field( $_POST["post"] );
$get_copy = sanitize_text_field( $_GET['post'] );
$post_id = (isset($get_copy) ? $get_copy : $post_copy );
$request_action = sanitize_text_field( $_REQUEST['action'] );
if (! ( isset( $get_copy ) || isset( $post_copy ) || ( isset($request_action) && $request_action == 'dt_dpp_republish' ) ) )
{
wp_die('No post!');
}
$my_post = array(
'ID' => $post_id,
'post_date' => current_datetime()->format( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ),
'post_date_gmt' => gmdate( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ),
);
wp_update_post( $my_post );
wp_redirect( admin_url( 'post.php' ) );
}
add_action( 'admin_action_rd_republish', 'dt_dpp_republish' );
// Add the republish link to action list for post_row_actions
function rd_republish_post_link( $actions, $post ) {
if (current_user_can('edit_posts')) {
$actions['republish'] = '<a href="' . wp_nonce_url('admin.php?action=rd_republish&post=' . $post->ID, basename(__FILE__), 'republish_nonce' ) . '" title="Refresh the publish date" rel="permalink">Republish date</a>';
}
return $actions;
}
add_filter( 'post_row_actions', 'rd_republish_post_link', 10, 2 );
Disable automatic updates
Note: not recommended, you can disable automatic theme and plugin updates in the settings. If you disable CORE updates you will get a warning in de admin interface.
sudo nano /var/www/wpvvb/wp-config.php
//disable plugin updates - this setting add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_false' ); //disable theme udates add_filter( 'auto_update_theme', '__return_false' ); //disable all updates, including WordPress forced security updates define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );
