wordpress – Maurice’s Blog

December 4, 2021

WordPress Change Default Page Width

Update the following CSS

Appearance, Customize, "Additional CSS"

.wrap {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
    max-width: 1920px;
    padding-left: 2em;
    padding-right: 2em;
}

October 3, 2017

Setup WordPress SSL for Admin Panel

Refer: http://crunchify.com/wordpress-how-to-force-specific-pages-to-be-secure-ssl-https/

That part is actually pretty easy. Just drop this in the wp-config.php. That’ll force the entire admin over SSL, which is what you want in most cases.

define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);

October 1, 2017

Disable WordPress Emeds

When updating to a new theme, WP start converting links into embeds, which exposes this site to 3rd party tracking, etc.

Refer: https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/disable-embeds-wordpress/

Plug-in Used to disable: "Disable Embeds" by Pascal Birchler

October 1, 2017October 2, 2017

Import Site into WordPress – “WP All Import”

Change Footer
/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/template-parts/footer/site-info.php

Might need to change Settings, Permalinks, and use category and tag, if the category and tag links do not wori.

WP All Import - Import all of the content from another site
By Soflyy

Custom Meta Widget - Use this to customize the Meta Widget
By bitacre

Disable Embeds - Disble Converting Embedded Links
By Pascal Birchler

WP All Import

Refer: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-all-import
Refer: https://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/getting-started/importing-an-xml-or-csv-file

Adding Adsense
Refer: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-plugin-for-simple-google-adsense-insertion-170

Possible XML Used for an Import

<entry>
<title>Blog Post by Date</title>
<description>This is something that I want to say</description>
<published>2016-01-02</published>
<category>blog|articles|info</category>
</entry>