How to Add Custom Block Styles in WordPress
If you have a look at the Gutenberg “Button” block and click on the styles tab (half moon cookie) you will see that you can select from Fill or Outline for it’s style….
How to Include Custom Field Values in WordPress Search
By default WordPress search works by searching post content and titles. If you have an advanced website where data is store in custom fields, you may want to also search those values. In…
How to Add a Custom Captcha Field to WordPress Comments
I recently wrote an article on how to integrate CloudFlare turnstile in WordPress comments and implemented the code here at WPExplorer. However, I think using Turnstile is overkill and loading extra scripts just…
Block Theme Anatomy: Structure & Files
So you’ve decided to create a block theme but not sure where to start? In this guide I will give you an overview of a block theme’s file structure. In other words, the…
How to Force Return a 404 Error Page in WordPress
In my last tutorial I showed you how to remove paginated page URLs in WordPress. In that guide I shared code to 301 redirect paginated URLs that aren’t needed. However, in some cases…
PHP Performance: Additional CPU cores vs Faster CPU cores
Some time ago, I received an email from a client experiencing slow performance issues with a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP web server). During a full audit, I found that the server’s…
PHP 8: After 4 years, only 30% of PHP websites use it. But why?
Two years ago, one of our online community members discussed some of the reasons behind the slow adoption of PHP 8. One member stated that it’s due to PHP compatibility issues across new…
Set PHP realpath_cache_size ‘correctly’
<?php var_dump(realpath_cache_size()); ?> Enjoy! realpath_cache_size = 4M realpath_cache_ttl = 120 Note that if your using Apache Prefork-mpm mod_php to run PHP (the fastest when loading only PHP and not with static content) then…
PHP performance: oPcache Control Panels
OPcache is a PHP extension that improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory, thereby removing the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on each request. The extension…
PHP Benchmarks: OPcache vs OPcache w/ Performance Tweaks
These are not mind-blowing results. However, depending on your current throughput of PHP requests, you may be happy to take whatever improvements you can find. Also, this test was with WordPress only; with…