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It is your responsibility to test out these settings on your server and check for comparability and security.
The article distills the most helpful and optimal settings for the W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin.
Sometimes, as a developer, it may be beneficial to hide the WordPress version number and or hide the WordPress update notice from backend users. Particularly if you are aware that performing the update will cause issues with your presently installed theme.
Nothing beats getting it fixed immediately, but sometimes that just isn’t feasible. We still recommend that any security releases be implemented immediately and if you must, take the site down for maintenance. That is, until the theme compatibility issues have been resolved and the security updates implemented.
In some cases you may not want to be constantly reminded that a WordPress plugin needs to be updated.
Here is how you go about hiding individual WordPress plugin update notices within the WordPress admin backend.
The following code snippet, when applied to your GeneratePress child theme’s “functions.php” file, will hide the sidebar on the Tribe Events Calendar WordPress Plugin Events Page.
If you haven’t already done so, create a child theme to implement the following code into it’s “functions.php” file rather than directly onto your existing template file.
This helps prevent the code from being overwritten (lost) upon any future theme updates.
[su_note]NO LONGER AN ISSUE, FIXED AS OF ENFOLD v4.3[/su_note]
If your “Terms of Service / Terms and Conditions” page contains an Enfold Advanced Layout Editor “Color Section” element this will cause an undesired display of said page when a visitor clicks on the “Terms and Conditions” link from the WooCommerce Checkout page.
The solution; don’t use the Advanced Layout Editor’s “Color Section” element on your “terms” page.
The wp-config.php file has many interesting features. With this one file you can really fine-tune how your WordPress installation functions.
Many default WordPress settings may be adjusted using the ‘define‘ function. This may save you from having to download a bunch of plugins to manage similar settings. But a word of caution. They should only be adjusted if you know what you are doing.
For those who want to match the Contact Form styling of their Enfold theme but want the functionality of Contact Form 7 see the example form code below.
