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High Availability Options and Metadata Usage Monitoring

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:24:04 +0000

Developer Knowledge LevelThis content is intended for WordPress developers, and it may require coding knowledge of WordPress, PHP, and JavaScript. Code examples provided here may contain errors or needs some additional coding. Make sure to test the code before using ...

REST API Logging

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:41:45 +0000

Block AI Crawlers and Scrappers

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:15:58 +0000

In recent years we are witnessing the rise of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and LLM (Large Language Model) systems that depend on scrapping and analyzing data to be able to generate content based on the user prompts. WordPress’ websites are becoming ...

Disabling User Accounts

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:24:45 +0000

If your website allows for free accounts registration, and gives your user ability to edit their account, you will be subject to massive spam registrations. Bots or spam user will register new accounts for the ability to post spam content ...

Setup For Cloudflare Turnstile

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:24:23 +0000

To setup the Cloudflare Turnstile for your website, you need to have a Cloudflare account. This account doesn’t need to have any website set to use Cloudflare, the Turnstile service is independent offering that can be used by anyone. Login ...

Setup For hCaptcha

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:24:23 +0000

To setup the hCaptcha for your website, you need to have a hCaptcha account. hCaptcha has different account types, and you can start with Free account, depending on your needs, you can later upgrade to paid tiers, if you want ...

Prefixes For Support Forums

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:22:21 +0000

Dev4Press support forums are using GD Topic Prefix Pro for bbPress to improve topics organization, status and type of content tracking. This tutorial will explain how we have set GD Topic Prefix Pro to work with support forums. Groups and ...

Prefixes Integration with other Plugins

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:47:13 +0000

GD Topic Prefix Pro for bbPress can integrate into other plugins and further improve the usability of prefixes. GD Forum Manager for bbPress GD Forum Manager for bbPress is a free plugin developed by Dev4Press, that allows you to edit ...

Get topic and forum Activity Tracking status

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 08:39:32 +0000

Override Templates in Theme

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 30 May 2024 13:38:29 +0000

Best SEO practices for bbPress

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:51:55 +0000

bbPress has some basic features for SEO (just as WordPress does), and you will need to use some specialized plugin for complete SEO. And this is the way it should be, because specialized SEO plugins are necessary tools for best ...

Customize Allowed Tags and Attributes

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:51:55 +0000

Media Library Access For Everyone

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 29 May 2024 15:51:55 +0000

All WordPress features are tied into roles and capabilities system to determine if users can access and use these features. The same goes for Media Library, and by default bbPress subscriber role can’t use it, so normal users in the ...

Inserting attachments into content

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 28 May 2024 16:52:45 +0000

When you add attachments to topics or replies, these attachments will be listed under the topic/reply content. But, in many cases, it is very useful to be able to have the attached image or something else part of the content ...

Check if the user is online from code

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 27 May 2024 13:43:57 +0000

Manage WordPress Options Table

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:42:28 +0000

This is the example process of how you can clean up your WordPress Options database table. It is done using SweepPress Pro 5.1, and the process was carried out on the Dev4Press website. Preparations For the period of 5 days, ...

High Availability Options and Metadata Usage Monitoring

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:08:06 +0000

Setting up Security Headers

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:33 +0000

Adding security headers is a very important part of the coreActivity plugin, and the plugin can add 10 security headers via Headers features. There are 3 dedicated headers features, and each one has an option to change how the headers ...

Setting up IP Banning

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:32 +0000

Banning IPs is at the core of the coreSecurity Pro plugin, and essential method for preventing malicious IPs access to the website. Feature Banned IPs works to ban IPs based on various other factors, and once the IP is banned, ...

Security for bbPress Forums

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:27:31 +0000

coreSecurity contains wide range of features that deal with spam, login and registration, firewall and more. And, many of these features are meant to be used with bbPress, to stop spam, stop spammers and bots registration and more. There are ...

Control who can vote for specific rating items

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:38:46 +0000

Additional HTML templates

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:31:17 +0000

To add additional HTML templates, plugin includes a simple method for registering new templates you want to use. This tutorial shows the potential implementation method, but you can use different approaches too. Storing templates files When you create your HTML ...

Setup rich snippets for rating items

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 19 May 2020 10:20:27 +0000

Setting up rich snippets in GD Rating System is done in two parts: global settings, and individual posts settings. Before we go through the process of setting up Rich Snippet’s support in the GD Rating System plugin, make sure you ...

Support for AJAX loading

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:40:46 +0000

Migration guide for version 4.0

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:21:35 +0000

GD Knowledge Base Pro version 4.0 introduces a lot of new features and some very important changes. Some of these changes are inside the JavaScript and templates, and in some instances, these can be considered breaking changes if you have ...

User review public method settings

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 08:11:11 +0000

When you configure the user reviews integration and decide on using public ratings so that visitors can say what they think about the reviews, the rating blocks for the public rating method used (Thumsb, Liks or Emotes) will use default ...

User review rating method settings

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 08:11:02 +0000

When you configure the user reviews integration, the rating blocks for the rating methods used (Stars, Sliders, Multi Stars or Sliders) will use default settings as defined in the main GD Rating System Pro settings page. But, if you want ...

Conditionally disable voting using filters

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 08:38:23 +0000

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Setup the Sync Meta

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:36:58 +0000

Sync Meta is a built-in addon for GD Rating System Pro that will copy calculated rating data from the plugin own rating tables into the WordPress metatables. This will allow for easier queries that involve ratings. Sync Meta works in ...

Customize user stats Online/Offline badge

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:44:25 +0000

User statistics area in topics thread, depending on the settings, shows the Online and Offline badges. They are simple, coloured green and red. And, you can customize them and replace them with any HTML you want.

Show grade instead of the rating number

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:45:56 +0000

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Setup the lightbox for the attached images

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:09:06 +0000

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Use MD5 hashed IP’s in the votes log

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:27:12 +0000

Since version 3.1, GD Rating System Pro has a new very useful security-related feature: it can store voters IP's as MD5 hashed strings in the database.

Show plain stars block inside the WP loop

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 09:44:47 +0000

If you need to display the rating block inside the WordPress Loop, you will need to get the rating snippet PHP code to place into the loop (inside the theme template). To do that, it is highly recommended to use ...

Creating Rating Series

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:17:17 +0000

This video shows how to create rating series with Multi Ratings Addon for GD Rating System Pro plugin

Configure file upload size and PHP memory in .htaccess

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:06:07 +0000

WordPress ability to upload files can be limited by the file size or POST request size set in PHP.ini for the PHP. By default, PHP allows upload of files up to 2MB.

Customize new and unread forum badges

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:04:38 +0000

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Google Analytics Events Tracking

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 18:43:00 +0000

GD Press Tools Pro Google Analytics Addon can help with setting up the events tracking that can be used to get additional data related to your website content into analytics data. Events tracking settings Currently, the plugin can track email, download and ...

Configure file upload size and PHP memory in PHP.ini

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:02:54 +0000

WordPress ability to upload files can be limited by the file size or POST request size set in PHP.ini for the PHP. By default, PHP allows upload of files up to 2MB.

Setup Star Reviews for adding author review rating

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 10:08:53 +0000

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