Custom WordPress Login Page — Logo, Background, Colors, URL Title (No Plugin)
Replace the wp-login.php WordPress logo with your brand mark, swap the background, restyle the login form, change the logo link…
PHP Snippets(19)
A growing library of PHP code snippets focused on WordPress customization and development. Topics range from managing downloads and inserting AdSense ads within post loops to removing unwanted heading classes, customizing Genesis theme read-more links, stripping spam links from comments, displaying estimated reading time, and auto-updating dates in posts with a free plugin.
Lock Block Patterns So Clients Can’t Break Them (templateLock, Block Lock, Server-Side Guards)
Every client project eventually sees someone accidentally delete the hero section or drag-drop the footer into the wrong column. This…
Add Your Brand Palette to theme.json Programmatically (PHP Filter)
The right way to inject a brand colour palette, font sizes, spacing scale, and block style overrides into any WordPress…
Register Custom Block Patterns in WordPress via PHP (2026 Guide)
Block patterns can be registered via PHP, via JSON files in a theme, or via synced patterns in the Site…
Restrict Which Blocks Each User Role Can Use in WordPress (Per-Role, Per-Post-Type)
A deterministic, PHP-only allowlist for the WordPress Block Editor that locks down which blocks authors, editors, contributors, and custom roles…
Log Every Failed Login Attempt in WordPress (Custom Table + Rotation + Auto-Ban)
A forensic-grade failed-login logger: custom database table, rotated weekly, with IP, username, user agent, country, and timestamp for every failed…
Harden wp-login.php Without a Plugin (Rate Limit, Rename, 2FA, IP Allow-List)
Seven copy-paste snippets that harden WordPress login without installing Wordfence, iThemes Security, or any security plugin — rate limit brute-force…
Clean Up Autoloaded wp_options Bloat (Drop TTFB in One Afternoon)
Every WordPress page load reads the entire autoloaded portion of wp_options into memory. On a 3-year-old site that can be…
Stop wp-cron from Firing on Every Page Load (System Cron in 2026)
WordPress fires wp-cron on every front-end page load to check scheduled tasks — fine for a low-traffic blog, catastrophic for…
GT Downloads Manager — Free WordPress Plugin for File Tracking
GT Downloads Manager is a free WordPress plugin that turns downloadable files into a custom post type with Gutenberg blocks,…
Minimalistic Cookie Notice for WordPress (under 2KB, no plugin)
A copy-paste cookie notice for WordPress sites that ship under 2KB total, respect prefers-reduced-motion, store consent as a first-party cookie…
Remove class=”wp-block-heading” From WordPress Heading Blocks
Strip the auto-added wp-block-heading class from core/heading blocks using a small render_block filter in functions.php. Works on WordPress 5.9 through…