It seems that Akismet sometimes flags Gravity Forms entries as spam and as a result its blocking them. This conflict can make your WordPress Gravity Forms miss a lot of entries and inquiries because you never receive the email notifications about them unless you go and manually check the Gravity Form entries from your WordPress Dashboard. In this case, there is not a lot you can do to bypass the conflict; you can disable Akismet or you can apply the following Gravity Forms filter and bypass … [Read more...] about How to stop Akismet blocking Gravity Forms entries
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How to customize your WordPress menu background color
How to use the WordPress menu CSS Classes feature There are times where you want one of your WordPress menu items to have a bolder look. For example, we're proud about our WordPress Malware Removal Services so we wanted to feature this service in our top menu and make it show under a different background color so it will stand out from the other menu items. For this task, we used the WordPress Menu CSS Classes feature which comes with the default WordPress setup. Most of you may have never seen … [Read more...] about How to customize your WordPress menu background color
How to enable or disable PHP error reporting for WordPress
Enabling PHP warnings and error notices for WordPress WordPress PHP error reporting, warnings and notices should be disabled by default. If for some reason you want to enable them for example, you need to debug your newly installed theme or plugin, then there are a few ways to achieve this. Using a Plugin The most user-friendly way is using a plugin like Easy Error Reporting. Once installed and activate you can set which user type will be able to see the error logging so you won't scare … [Read more...] about How to enable or disable PHP error reporting for WordPress
WordPress HTTP to HTTPS Auto Redirect
As of the beginning of July 2018 Google started forcing site owners to use the HTTPS encryption by flagging non HTTPS sites as "Not secure" when browsed with Google Chrome(v. 68). This alone is a great motive to start converting your HTTP setup into an HTTPS one. In the past, this would cost you a bit but now you can use LetsEncrypt certs for free. Of course, you still need to set up the SSL inside your WordPress site, we're going to create a simple guide about this so make sure you follow our … [Read more...] about WordPress HTTP to HTTPS Auto Redirect
How to: Change your WordPress default administrator username
Reasons to change the default administrator username In one of our first blog posts we wrote about ways of securing a WordPress site and prevent it from being hacked. One of the tips mentioned there was about changing the WordPress default admin username. You see most of the earlier WordPress installations were forced to use the "admin" name for the default administrator user role so this made their WP sites vulnerable to brute-force attacks since the attacker already new the username and had … [Read more...] about How to: Change your WordPress default administrator username