Many applications or extensions will let check which CMS or software a website is using. Also, these extensions can find the plugins and themes that you are using. So, sometimes, you want to hide your WordPress site and stay invisible from those extensions. Moreover, there are some security reasons as well that you want to protect your business WordPress website. So, In this article, you will learn to completely hide WordPress CMS visibility. We are going to introduce you to premium and free plugins. So, you can use any of them.

Hide WordPress CMS Visibility

We are not going to discuss why you want or should protect WordPress CMS visibility. But security for business is important, and most business companies hide their website CMS and components. It is better if a hacker cannot detect what CMS you are using on your business website. Let’s jump to how we actually can hide our site. You might have a strong reason for yourself already.

Premium Plugin to Hide WordPress

If you are looking for a premium plugin with extended support and advanced features. Then check out the Hide My WP.

This is the most popular and best-selling WordPress security plugin. They have lifetime support once you purchase the plugin.

Main Features:

• Easily replace any words in your HTML output file!
• Notify you when someone is mousing about your WordPress site (included with visitor details like IP, user agent, referrer and even username!)
• Compress HTML output and remove comments in source code
• Remove WordPress meta Info from the header and feeds
• Change default WordPress email sender
• Custom 404 pages!
• Remove unnecessary menu classes
• Clean up body classes

Can read more about this plugin on its documentation. We are not going to use it. So let’s see which free plugin is best for Hiding WordPress.

Free Plugin to Hide WordPress

So, now is the time to know about free and amazing WordPress for security and hiding WordPress CMS. So far you know that WordPress has over 50,000 free plugins. We have selected the best and most wanted one. Also, it has a great team with frequent updates, it’s WP Hide & Security Enhancer.

As mentioned, it’s free. Also, It easily hides your WordPress core files, theme and plugins path from being shown on the front side. Besides, this is a huge improvement over site security, no one will know you actually run a WordPress. Provide a simple way to clean up HTML by removing all WordPress fingerprints.

Configuration

The configuration is very easy. Just open the WP-Hide options and change the settings.

It has a lot of features. Also, the documentation is a great place to start. In a nutshell, when you change WordPress Default directories, hackers can’t guess the file structures. Accordingly, it makes it hard for hackers to attack your website.

Conclusion

All in all, security is the most important factor for every website. Though you can’t secure your site 100%, these plugins make it hard for hackers to penetrate in your site. We hope you enjoyed reading the article. So, if you have any questions, feel free to comment it below or ask on our forum.

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Have you ever come across a situation when you want to duplicate any WordPress site with all its content without missing any data? WordPress clone site plugin made WordPress site migration easy and painless. In this article, you will learn more about Cloning and why you should use plus top 5 best WordPress Cloning Plugins. You will learn the following topics in this article.

• What is WordPress clone site plugin?
• What you should do before cloning your site.
• List of top 5 best WordPress cloning plugins.

What WordPress Clone Site Plugin?

Cloning is merely duplicating a WordPress site. You might develop your website locally before everything deploying it online. Once everything is done locally, you can migrate it on your serve or live. WordPress cloning plugins let you quickly move or duplicate your site from place to another place.

What can WordPress cloning plugins do?

1. Back up your site.
2. Shift your site from one server to another.
3. Migrate local site to production.
4. Duplicate the same copy of a site.

What should you do before cloning your site?

Before you can duplicate or clone your website. There are some points that you should do. These are the pre-requirements and preparation for your new copy of your site.

• Install a new WordPress site.
• Have access to c-panel of your site.
• FTP account to upload file to the server

Best WordPress clone site plugin

Now is the time to introduce the top 5 best WordPress clone site plugin. These plugins are selected based on user rate, satisfaction, rich features, and popularity.

1. UpdraftPlus WordPress backup plugin

UpdraftPlus is the number one in our list. This plugin simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest-ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin. With over a million currently-active installs. Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click!

Unlike many other plugins, UpdraftPlus:

• Restores, as well as backing up
• Backs up to more cloud options than any others
• Allows you to set up automatic backup schedules, for the ultimate inconvenience
• Is faster, using up fewer server resources
• Has been tested on over 1 million sites

2. All-in-One WordPress Migration

All-in-One is yet another best WordPress plugin for cloning. This plugin exports your WordPress website, including the database, media files, plugins and themes with no technical knowledge required.
Upload your site to a different location with a drag and drop in to WordPress.

Related: Transfer WordPress site correctly without downtime

3. Duplicator – WordPress migration plugin

Duplicator gives you the ability to migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another. And also serves as a simple backup utility. Duplicator handles both serialized and base64 serialized string replacement. WordPress migration and WordPress backups are easily handled by this plugin.

Duplicator enables you to:

• Move, migrate or clone a WordPress site between domains or hosts
• Pull down a live site to localhost for development
• Manually backup a WordPress site or parts of a site
• Duplicate a live site to a staging area or vice versa
• Bundle up an entire WordPress site for easy reuse or distribution
• Perform a full WordPress migration without struggling with messy import/export SQL scripts

4. WP Clone by WP Academy

WP Clone by WP Academy – Best WordPress Cloning plugins

WP Clone is the easiest, fastest and most secure way to move or copy a WordPress site to another domain or hosting server. You can also use it to move your site to/from local server hosting, to create copies of your website for development or testing purposes, to backup your site, and to install pre-configured versions of WordPress.

5. WP Migrate DB

The last one is WP Migrate DB. It exports your database as a MySQL data dump (much like phpMyAdmin), does a find and replace on URLs and file paths, handles serialized data, then allows you to save it to your computer as an SQL file. To complete the migration, you need to use a database management tool (e.g. phpMyAdmin) to import the SQL file to your database, replacing your existing database. It is perfect for developers who need to migrate fresh data from the production site to their local install or migrate their locally developed site to a staging or production server.

Final word:

Almost every WordPress user needs to know about cloning and duplicating. If you have any questions, feel free to comment it below. 🙂

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If you have ever faced a situation where you want to duplicate WordPress page or post with all the structure, SEO, and design, you can do that easily. In this article, you will learn the best way to duplicate WordPress page or post with and without a plugin.

How to Duplicate page in WordPress with Plugin

let’s imagine that you are not a developer. You can use the following plugins to duplicate page in WordPress quickly.

There are many plugins out there that let you duplicate post and pages. We recommend the most updated and applicable with the latest version of WordPress.

Duplicate Post 

WordPress Duplicate Post By Enrico Battocchi is the most recommended plugin on WordPress plugin directory. Once you install and activate this plugin, you can go to any post type like pages or posts. You will see two extra options for your posts.

How it works:

1. In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages,’ you can click on ‘Clone’ link below the post/page title: this will immediately create a copy and return to the list.
2. NEW! In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages,’ you can select one or more items, then choose ‘Clone’ in the ‘Bulk Actions’ drop-down to copy them all at once.
3. In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages,’ you can click on ‘New Draft’ link below the post/page title.
4. On the post edit screen, you can click on ‘Copy to a new draft’ above “Cancel”/”Move to trash.”
5. While viewing a post as a logged in user, you can click on ‘Copy to a new draft’ as a drop down link under “Edit Post” in the admin bar.

Clone: It will duplicate a post and save as new post-draft.

New Draft: It will duplicate the post and let you start editing and change the content.

Duplicate WordPress Page and Post without Plugin

If you are a developer and don’t want to use any plugin, you can do that with a few lines of code. Of course using the plugin is easy, but there are some advantages and disadvantages to using a plugin or not. We will discuss that later.

As a WordPress admin, you access to WordPress code editor. You can find it under Appearance > Editor. Once you are on the editor page, open the theme functions page from the right sidebar.

Note: Please make sure you have a backup of this file before editing. 

Past the following code at the end of functions.php file.

WordPress Post and page duplicator code.

/*
 * This code will add duplicate option for WOrdPress post types
 */

function technig_post_duplicator(){
	global $wpdb;
	if (! ( isset( $_GET['post']) || isset( $_POST['post'])  || ( isset($_REQUEST['action']) && 'technig_post_duplicator' == $_REQUEST['action'] ) ) ) {
		wp_die('No post to duplicate has been supplied!');
	}
 
	/*
	 * Nonce verification for security
	 */
	if ( !isset( $_GET['duplicate_nonce'] ) || !wp_verify_nonce( $_GET['duplicate_nonce'], basename( __FILE__ ) ) )
		return;
 
	/*
	 * get the original post id
	 */
	$post_id = (isset($_GET['post']) ? absint( $_GET['post'] ) : absint( $_POST['post'] ) );
	/*
	 * and all the original post data then
	 */
	$post = get_post( $post_id );
 
	/*
	 * if you don't want current user to be the new post author,
	 * then change next couple of lines to this: $new_post_author = $post->post_author;
	 */
	$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
	$new_post_author = $current_user->ID;
 
	/*
	 * if post data exists, create the post duplicate
	 */
	if (isset( $post ) && $post != null) {
 
		/*
		 * new post data array
		 */
		$args = array(
			'comment_status' => $post->comment_status,
			'ping_status'    => $post->ping_status,
			'post_author'    => $new_post_author,
			'post_content'   => $post->post_content,
			'post_excerpt'   => $post->post_excerpt,
			'post_name'      => $post->post_name,
			'post_parent'    => $post->post_parent,
			'post_password'  => $post->post_password,
			'post_status'    => 'draft',
			'post_title'     => $post->post_title,
			'post_type'      => $post->post_type,
			'to_ping'        => $post->to_ping,
			'menu_order'     => $post->menu_order
		);
 
		/*
		 * insert the post by wp_insert_post() function
		 */
		$new_post_id = wp_insert_post( $args );
 
		/*
		 * get all current post terms ad set them to the new post draft
		 */
		$taxonomies = get_object_taxonomies($post->post_type); // returns array of taxonomy names for post type, ex array("category", "post_tag");
		foreach ($taxonomies as $taxonomy) {
			$post_terms = wp_get_object_terms($post_id, $taxonomy, array('fields' => 'slugs'));
			wp_set_object_terms($new_post_id, $post_terms, $taxonomy, false);
		}
 
		/*
		 * duplicate all post meta just in two SQL queries
		 */
		$post_meta_infos = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT meta_key, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id=$post_id");
		if (count($post_meta_infos)!=0) {
			$sql_query = "INSERT INTO $wpdb->postmeta (post_id, meta_key, meta_value) ";
			foreach ($post_meta_infos as $meta_info) {
				$meta_key = $meta_info->meta_key;
				if( $meta_key == '_wp_old_slug' ) continue;
				$meta_value = addslashes($meta_info->meta_value);
				$sql_query_sel[]= "SELECT $new_post_id, '$meta_key', '$meta_value'";
			}
			$sql_query.= implode(" UNION ALL ", $sql_query_sel);
			$wpdb->query($sql_query);
		}
 
 
		/*
		 * finally, redirect to the edit post screen for the new draft
		 */
		wp_redirect( admin_url( 'post.php?action=edit&post=' . $new_post_id ) );
		exit;
	} else {
		wp_die('Post creation failed, could not find original post: ' . $post_id);
	}
}
add_action( 'admin_action_technig_post_duplicator', 'technig_post_duplicator' );
 
/*
 * Add the duplicate link to action list for post_row_actions
 */
function technig_post_duplicator_link( $actions, $post ) {
	if (current_user_can('edit_posts')) {
		$actions['duplicate'] = '<a href="' . wp_nonce_url('admin.php?action=technig_post_duplicator&post=' . $post->ID, basename(__FILE__), 'duplicate_nonce' ) . '" title="Duplicate this item" rel="permalink">Duplicate</a>';
	}
	return $actions;
}
 
add_filter( 'post_row_actions', 'technig_post_duplicator_link', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'page_row_actions', 'technig_post_duplicator_link', 10, 2 );

Now you have the duplicate option for post and pages.

Use plugins or Code?

If you want to know which one is better, here are some suggestions that weather using code is better or using a plugin.

Using too many plugins in your site slow down your site speed. Especially when your plugin interacts with layouts of your page. For this types of plugin, it doesn’t matter. Since it’s a small feature, you don’t need to use any plugin. Just use the code. Of course, you can choose whatever suits you the best.

If you have any question about how to duplicate page in WordPress, feel free to comment it below. 🙂

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If you are a WordPress theme developer, you know that the_content function displays all the words whenever you use it. In this short tips and trick tutorial, you will learn how to limit WordPress the_content words length . We will show you the different ways to do that plus the best and recommended way.

How to Limit WordPress the_content Words

You use the_content function in almost every page of your WordPress theme. For instance you use in index.php file and  it will echo all the content for one post or page. But you don’t want to show all content. Maybe only 50 words. Here how you can limit the_content.

Using Filter Hoock

Open your functions.php file and write the following code.

  function technig_the_content($content)
  {
    // Take the existing content and return a subset of characters it
    return substr($content, 0, 500);
  }

  add_filter("the_content", "technig_the_content");

The only problem with this method is that, it will filter the_content and shows 500 character no-matter where you have used. For example, if you have used in in single post which you display all the content, it will display only that 500 characters. ( not a good way )

Using wp_trim_words

This method is probably easy and short solution. Every time you use the_content function, apply the wp_trim_words function on it.

<?php 
        echo wp_trim_words( get_the_content(), 80 );
?>

You can’t use the_content function because you it will echo the content directly. Instead, we use get_the_content() function. 

Using Custom Function

This method is going to be the best and most flexible way to limit WordPress the_content words length. Write the following custom function in your functions.php file.

function technig_content($limit){
  $content = explode(' ', get_the_content(), $limit);

  if (count($content)>=$limit){
       array_pop($content);
       $content = implode(" ",$content).'...';
  } else {
    $content = implode(" ",$content);
  }
	
  $content = preg_replace('/\[.+\]/','', $content);
  $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content); 
  $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
  return $content;
}

Use the custom function instead of the_content. For example:

<?php echo technig_content(30); ?>

Conclusion

You can use the_excerpt() function as will to display less content. But still you will need to modify the length of the words in that. We hope you have learn something and use it in you next project. Feel free to ask you question bellow. 🙂

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WordPress is by far the most popular blogging CMS. Here in Technig, we have quite a few tips and tricks about WordPress and theme development. In this short tutorial, you will learn how to customize WordPress site permalink to make it look pretty.

How to Change WordPress Site Permalink?

WordPress makes it easy to change and customize site permalink or url in just a few options. Open your WordPress dashboard and go to settings > permalinks.

By default, there quite a few options that you can choose.

But, sometime this options are not what you want. Fore instance, you might want to show the post-title/id or id/post-title.

Example:

https://example.com/I-love-coding/55123

In those situations, the default options would’t work.

How to Customize WordPress Site Permalink

Basically, There are two ways to customize and make the permalink pretty. One, by writing a simple function in your functions.php file of you theme. Two, writing a custom structure to the given option in permalinks page.

We will go through but ways. The only disadvantage for first way is this. If you change your theme, the options might not work. So make sure which you way is suitable for you. 

First Option

Open your functions.php file which is in your active theme directory and past the following code.

add_action( "init", "technig_permalink" );
function technig_permalink() {

    //This rule will match : I-love-coding/55123
    add_rewrite_rule(        
        '^([^/]*)/([0-9]+)/?',        
        'index.php?p=$matches[2]',        
        'top' );

   //This rule will match : 55123/I-love-coding
    add_rewrite_rule(        
        '^([0-9]+)/([^/]*)/?',        
        'index.php?p=$matches[1]',        
        'top' );

}

Choose one the above rules.

Second Option

The second option will be easy and most convenient way. Select the Custom Structure and write the following value.

/%postname%/%post_id%

That’s it. There are many other options and variable that you might want to use.

 %year%
The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004
 %monthnum%
Month of the year, for example 05
 %day%
Day of the month, for example 28
 %hour%
Hour of the day, for example 15
 %minute%
Minute of the hour, for example 43
 %second%
Second of the minute, for example 33
 %post_id%
The unique ID # of the post, for example 423
 %postname%
A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So “This Is A Great Post!” becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI.
 %category%
A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI.
 %author%
A sanitized version of the author name.

Conclusion

WordPress is not only a blogging CMS, you can customize every  piece of it and make it look the way you want. We hope you have learned something and if you have any questions, feel free to comment it bellow. 🙂

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