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If you want to add a custom WordPress menu item by code, you can use the code below:

$menu_id = 11;
$menu_item_id = 0;

$params = array(
	'menu-item-type'   => 'custom',
	'menu-item-url'    => 'https://example.com/',
	'menu-item-title'  => 'Link Title',
	'menu-item-status' => 'publish'
);

wp_u...

To update all installed homebrew packages to its current release version, simply run this command from the command line:

brew update && brew upgrade

Update 2020-02-11: The latest Ninja Forms update improved the security of the plugin. That’s why the following code does not work anymore. Ninja Forms knows about the problem and made this topic to a “Top Issue”, see here....

Get a Form

In this example we get a form by its ID:

$form_id = 1;
Ninja_Forms()->form( $form_id );

Get Form Fields

In this example, we get all the fields from the form with ID 1:

$form_id = 1;
$form = Ninja_Forms()->form( $form_id );
$fields = $form->get_fields();

Get...

Disable XML-RPC in WordPress

WordPress XML-RPC can be used to try several thousands passwords in a short time – great for hackers using brute force attacks. To avoid this, you can disable XML-RPC by adding this line of code to your WordPress installation:

add_filter( 'xmlrpc_enabled', '__retur...

If you want to disable the MySQL validate password plugin, you can run this command from the mysql command prompt:

uninstall plugin validate_password;

Result should be something like this:

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05 sec)

Now, the validate password plugin should be disabled.

To check the Ubuntu version from the command line, you can use this command:

cat /etc/lsb-release

Output should be something like this:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS"

In this example, Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS...

If you want to restart a MySQL server when using homebrew, you can use this command:

brew services restart mysql@5.7

Caution: You may have to modify the MySQL server version used – in this case 5.7.

If you want to remove all items from a WordPress navigation menu, you may be have to do a lot of clicks. Another option might be using this code snippet:

$menu_id = 12345 // modify this!

function cleody_empty_menu($menu_id)
{
    $items = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menu_id);

    foreach ($items a...

If you use Laravel Valet and want to increase the memory_limit, you have to edit php-memory-limits.ini:

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/conf.d/php-memory-limits.ini

If you want to increase max_execution_time, you have to edit php.ini:

sudo n...