JL Faverio

New Dawn by Warren Hedgpeth – oil painting on canvas

🎨 Honored to help Jennifer Hedgpeth share the work of her late husband, Warren Hedgpeth — a brilliant Sonoma County painter.

We’re building a site to showcase his large-scale oil paintings, like New Dawn (71" x 96.88"). His legacy deserves a digital home.

found 20+ outdated themes and plugins on a WordPress site this week. these things hide in the background and become easy targets.

if you run a site and haven’t done a cleanup in months, hit me up 👍 it might save you a nightmare later.

for years, my giant legal pad has been the one thing that actually keeps me on track and forces me to get things done—other than my wife of course 👍 something about writing it down and crossing it off just works.

screenshot of Discussion Settings in WordPress

🚀 Here's one of the quickest ways to optimize speed and security for ANY #WordPress site.

Just uncheck all the default options WP pre-selects for you.

More free tips @ jlfaverio.com 🍕🍕🍕

Haworthiopsis fasciata aka 🦓Zebra Plant

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not that I'm aware of. theme.json is great for global styles, but for specific selectors like .hidden { display: none; } Additional CSS is still the way to go.

Screenshot showing CSS code with multiple display: none; rules targeting specific page items, elements, and classes, demonstrating redundant and cluttered coding practices.

Just audited a #WP site w/ tons of display:none clutter. Like every hidden element had its own rule. 😩

Here's a #webdevtip to clean it up:

✅ Create a reusable .hidden class:
.hidden { display: none !important; }

✅ Group selectors:
.page-item-14387, .footer-brand, .phonehead { display: none; }

#Wordle 1,313 6/6 😂

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Looking for a quick emoji swap in #WordPress? Better Search Replace Pro does it in one pass—no more manual edits, just a smooth update so you can get back to building and breaking shit. 💛

well crap, looks like the Autoblue plugin is no longer auto-posting from my WP site to Bluesky 🤔

Affordable WordPress Maintenance - Starting at $25/mo Keep your WordPress site secure and running smoothly for less than $1/day. Get proactive updates, backups, and performance boosts for uninterrupted performance.

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For $25/month, I take care of updates, backups, and security so you can focus on your business without the tech headaches.

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anyone else think Kohl's will be bought by Amazon this year? 👍

👇 here's another way to bulk edit content within #WordPress

just enable Enfold's debug mode to view and edit source code - perfect for bulk edits!

//Enfold debug mode box
add_action('avia_builder_mode', "builder_set_debug");
function builder_set_debug()
{
return "debug";
}

Quick tip: If your login page says an email doesn’t exist, you’re giving hackers a free pass to figure out valid accounts.

In other words: Stop making their job easy. Lock it down and keep that info private.

#WebsiteSecurity #StaySecure #PhisingPreventative

ah man I miss playing chess!

🤔 got Google Search Console #GSC questions? JL's got answers. 💪

client: JL - can you tell me what this is all about?

me: Some pages aren’t on Google due to robots.txt blocking them. This file controls what Google can see. Use the link to review affected pages, or I can help fix it.

Bing Search gets faster, more accurate and efficient through SLM models and TensorRT-LLM Bing's search team said it "trained SLM models (~100x throughput improvement over LLM), which process and understand search queries more precisely."

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Party City is going out of business | CNN Business Party City is closing down all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business, CNN has learned.

www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...

anyone in the #WordPress community notice that emojis like 👍 no longer display on the frontend or save in the backend since version 6.5?

I’m agreeing with @donnafontenot.com on calling them “reposts” 🦋

Matt's attack on @wpengine.bsky.social is cringe. This battle is not going to end until there's a legal ruling from the courts. After 18 years developing & designing with #WordPress, I've had enough of @wordpress.org and will not be recommending this software to any of my clients moving forward.

am I the only one who copies from ChatGPT, pastes into Notepad, then into the website? otherwise, it sneaks in extra hidden lines at the bottom.

or am I crazy?

it actually DOES search databases too! 😍

wait a minute...

finally confirmed today the String Locator plugin primarily searches physical files like:

Theme files
Plugin files
WP Core files

but it does not search the WordPress database for items like post content, metadata, or database-stored options. for that my rec is Better Search Replace Pro.

great question, I'll find out and letcha know

Just tried String Locator, and it’s a game-changer. It finds text or images in WordPress files with ease. My new favorite plugin. Check it out and more free plugins at jlfaverio.com/wordpress-pl...

my wife also told me that TODAY was the 13th too! 🤣 what would I do without her?

my wife gets me

WPForms Plugin Vulnerability Affects Up To 6 Million Sites WPForms WordPress plugin patches a high-severity vulnerability affecting up to 6 million websites

www.searchenginejournal.com/wpforms-plug...