WordPress heartbeat is made to save your articles automatically but it can slow down your server depending on your site size and all the plugins you got. If you’d like to stil use the feature but lower its saving rate, you can use the following code :

add_action( 'init', 'customize_heartbeat', 1 );

function customize_heartbeat() {

// Register the wordpress native script if necessary

if (!wp_script_is('heartbeat', 'registered')) {

wp_register_script('heartbeat', includes_url('js/heartbeat.min.js'), array('jquery'), null, true);

}

// Active with a custom interval

add_filter('heartbeat_settings', 'set_heartbeat_interval');

}

function set_heartbeat_interval($settings) {
 // Define interval in seconds
 $settings['interval'] = 120; // Example for 2 minutes (60x2)
 return $settings;
 }

By default wordpress writes an H1 with the tag term, which can be very limited in terms of SEO. For instance, you may have a tag page title “USA” instead of “News from the United States of America” if your tag is only “USA”. To improve that without any plugin, open your theme’s functions.php file and add the following lines :


/*
CUSTOM H1 TITLES FOR TAGS PAGES by Ghyslain 3 mai 2023
*/

You will get a new text field in your admin edit screen called “Custom H1 title”.
Now in your theme’s tag.php file, replace the lines where the H1 was being called by :

If you modified a plugin and don’t want it to appear in the updates list, use this function from rniswonger in your functions.php

/**
 * Prevent update notification for plugin
 * http://www.thecreativedev.com/disable-updates-for-specific-plugin-in-wordpress/
 * Place in theme functions.php or at bottom of wp-config.php
 */
 function disable_plugin_updates( $value ) {
    $pluginsToDisable = [
        'plugin-folder/plugin.php',
        'plugin-folder2/plugin2.php'
    ];
    if ( isset($value) && is_object($value) ) {
        foreach ($pluginsToDisable as $plugin) {
            if ( isset( $value->response[$plugin] ) ) {
                unset( $value->response[$plugin] );
            }
        }
    }
    return $value;
}
add_filter( 'site_transient_update_plugins', 'disable_plugin_updates' );

Your site is not in english and you are trying to import an RSS feed by using the excellent Magpie RSS ? If the feed language is in french for instance you’ll probably get weird characters coming up on your display page.

The solution is pretty simple. Go in the folder where Magpie RSS is installed and look for rss_fetch.inc

Around line 357 set the default output and input encoding to UTF-8 like this :

  if ( !defined('MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING') ) {
 define('MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING', 'UTF-8');
 }
 
 if ( !defined('MAGPIE_INPUT_ENCODING') ) {
 define('MAGPIE_INPUT_ENCODING', 'UTF-8');
 }