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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

4 (1)
By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Creating automatically expiring user passwords

In WordPress, the user can set a strong or weak password for the user account. Using weak passwords for user accounts or keeping the same password for a long time can create security threats on your site. Regularly changing the account password is one way of preventing such threats on the site. Even though this is a commonly known fact, many users don't change their passwords. As a solution, we can make the existing password automatically expire and force the user to reset the password to get access again.

In this recipe, we are going to use custom code to make the existing password automatically expire within a predefined time frame and ask the user to reset their password to get access to the site.

Getting ready

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