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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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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)

Forcing logout for all users

We can use several techniques to improve site security, as well as use external services to scan and protect your site from potential threats. However, there is no guarantee that the site will be fully secured even with all the features and services. Gaining access to existing user accounts is one of the major causes behind hacked WordPress sites. Once a security breach is identified, we have to fix the security issue, as well as prevent the unauthorized user from doing any further damage to the site. In such a case, logging out all users and asking them to reset their passwords is a common way of preventing further damage to the site. Once all users are logged out, we can block the login functionality in general, or block specific accounts from logging in until the issue is fixed.

In this recipe, we are going to use an existing plugin to force logout...