To retrieve the post title of a post as saved in the wp_posts table in the WordPress database use this
<?php echo get_post_field( 'post_title', $post_id, 'raw' ); ?>If you use get_the_title() function, WordPress applies the ‘the_title‘ filter before returning the value.
By OutsourcedContent — on November 13, 2017 For general sanitization of text input fields and text areas for plugin options and such, use: sanitize_text_field( string $string ) For escaping in general for text input fields, use: esc_attr( string $string ) @refer https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/66323/90061
To tighten security of your WordPress blog/website, you should prevent direct access to wp-config.php file. You can prevent this with htaccess. Adding this simple code to your .htaccess file will prevent unauthorized access to your wp-config.php file. # Disable direct access to wp-config.php <files wp-config.php> order allow,deny deny from all </files>
Comment spammers are getting smarter and using latest techniques to fool anti-spam methods. It really does not matter which anti-spam plugins you use on WordPress, you must have noticed that these spam comments are bypassing your full proof system. Every now and then, you will receive bunch of spam comments on your website. If you…
While developing a theme or a plugin, we sometimes need to check if a particular third-party plugin is active and only perform certain actions if it is. This might be due to my customization adding some extra functionality on top of the other plugin. Therefore it doesn’t make sense to have my customization active while…
Sometime you want to reward your registered user of your website with a special gift available only to them or maybe you have a important announcement/update for them or you simply want to send a message only to them. To accomplish that, this code snippet below creates a new shortcode with which to wrap content…
By OutsourcedContent — on September 29, 2017 Use this code snippet to display the first category of a WordPress post. <?php $smello = (array) get_the_category($post_ID])[0]; echo $smello[‘cat_name’]; ?> where $post_ID is the ID of the post whose category is required. Change [0] to [1] to get the second category. Not all posts will…