Category: Content Manipulation
11/22/2023
How to rewrite URLs generated by WordPress AJAX POST Requests
In the realm of WordPress development, AJAX is a pivotal technology for creating dynamic and interactive web experiences. AJAX empowers websites to fetch and display content seamlessly without requiring a full page refresh. However, in certain scenarios, the URLs generated within these AJAX-fetched contents might necessitate modification for a variety of reasons, such as enhancing […]
12/04/2020
How to import your Zoom Webinars into WordPress as custom content
Hello! Now, more than ever, companies businesses and individuals are leveraging web based collaborative tools like Zoom. Whether it be for company meetings, training sessions or sales seminars, the idea is to use video conferencing technology to replace in-person interactions. Zoom has emerged as a leading player, being positioned favourably at the right point in […]
09/09/2020
How to bulk update all WordPress pages or posts
Hello! Sometimes its necessary to perform mass or automated actions against your WordPress content. Reasons for this can vary, but in our scenario there was a bug in a plugin relating to translated content via WPML where afte a fix / plugin update was applied, resolving the content errors was as simple as re-saving an […]
01/18/2019
How to block your WordPress site from being scanned by WPScan with Nginx
Hello! First and foremost, why would you want to block WPScan from probing your site? Well we all know that security through obscurity is a bad practice. That said the risks of malicious activity on your site is undoubtedly heightened through many points of information disclosure that is freely available to parse and organize to […]
01/11/2019
How to inject advanced custom fields into your WPBakery post grid
Hello! Yes of course WPBakery / Visual Composer is bloated. Absolutely correct its more ideal to simply create your own page template with a custom WordPress query and design your own post grid from scratch. For smaller budget WordPress projects where time is money, it is sometimes ideal to go the post grid route. Why […]
09/13/2018
How to protect WordPress media files and only allow the users who uploaded them to view
Hello! In the past we have written about how to protect your WordPress media files. In the past exercises we utilized a strategy to set a session cookie with encrypted details that can be read and validated at the http service (i.e. nginx) as well as application (php/wordpress) level. Since then we have refined this […]
06/27/2018
How to implement a government ID verification system with Woocommerce and WordPress
Need this implemented on your site? Click here and fill out our quote form! Hello! There are many reasons why your Woocommerce store may need a system to accommodate verifying the identity of your customers. Depending on what your selling and the local or federal laws that are in place, having the identity […]
05/08/2018
How to make bulk changes to WordPress Woocommerce product attributes with PHP
Hello! Sometimes its necessary to make site-wide changes to WordPress posts in order to save time and programmatically propagate changes without having to edit each post one at a time. For bulk manipulation of WordPress data, it is sometimes effective to write a command line PHP script to hook into your WordPress environment and execute […]
03/28/2018
#DeleteFacebook : How to poison, obfuscate and purge your facebook data before deleting your account
* Update : Thank you Vice for writing an article about my script! Unfortunately it seems as though facebook is actually blocking the ability for anyone to share the article. I wonder why? * Update 2 : Facebook is now allowing the Vice article to be shared, only after about 24 hours of blocking the […]
01/31/2018
How to craft an XSS payload to create an admin user in WordPress
Hello! XSS (or cross site scripting) attacks are a common method to maliciously execute actions against a website installation. In particular this type of attack vector is useful when dealing with a CMS like WordPress where you have administrative user accounts to target. This means that if you are able to craft an XSS payload […]
