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Are you getting comment spammed by link building bots? Pull off the ‘website’ field from the form by adding this to your functions.php file.

NOTE: Please remember to backup your database before doing any SQL level deletes. Over time, the wp_postmeta table can get littered with a number of records. These linked meta data rows are not always removed when posts from the wp_posts table are deleted. While WordPress has well optimised the wp_postmeta table, it might be wise…

Are you are using the_date() function in WordPress templates and getting a blank or empty value? When more than one post is published on the same day, the_date() function displays only the date for the first post in the loop. The right way to handle this is by using the the_time() function. Try this: [php]…

The WP-CLI command line tool is a handy application to run various WordPress tasks. Download the WP-CLI command line tool into the WordPress root folder using CURL or WGET. [bash] curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar [/bash] Check if the tool is working. [bash] php wp-cli.phar –info [/bash] Not run the search and replace command to look through all…

Google Analytics by Yoast is a must have plugin for all WordPress installs. It makes adding GA trackers a breeze and it can also ping certain events to Google Analytics. The only unexplained bit of code is the issue. At some point, the ‘ga’ variable changed to ‘__gaTracker’. This raised some concerns among the techy…

Are your Contact Form 7 submissions not working fine? Is the ‘Thank You’ success message flashing for a second and disappearing? The problem might be in the on_sent_ok hook. The standard recommendation on the Contact Form 7 website is to use the following code. [js] on_sent_ok: “_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘Contact Form’, ‘Submit’]);” [/js] The above code will…