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It’s not uncommon to only want to show specific sidebar widgets or footer widgets in certain views. In the case below we didn’t want to show a client’s teaser widget of their recent installations when the visitor was already viewing any of their portfolio pages. So here’s a simple filter that does just that: /** […]

By default the directories (folders) of your website and other applications may be publicly viewable for all to browse. This is a potential security risk, but thankfully one that can be reduced very easily. Here are two simple options to reduce this risk by preventing the directories from showing their content as browsable lists: Option […]

The Yoast meta box sits just below the main editor. To demote it, aka, reduce its priority, just add this anonymous function to your theme (or better still, a custom plugin): add_filter( 'wpseo_metabox_prio', '__return_false' ); Or, you can use the more commonly quoted approach of explicitly stating the meta box’s positional priority to ‘low’: add_filter( […]

If you value your website’s search engine positioning then mobile-friendly websites are no longer a nice-to-have. On April 21st, 2015 Google’s mobile-friendly websites algorithm was updated to have a significant impact on search results! Since this algorithm was implemented it’s strongly believed that websites not ticking the right boxes for Google’s mobile support best practices […]

This site is delivered over https, using modern encryption methods. We advise you to do the same and get encrypted. It’s no secret that your bits can be seen by Peeping Toms when you surf the web. To be more precise, the bits are the streams of data between your device and the source of […]