I managed to delete my functions.PHP file. How do I recover my page? I use the Divi Ultimate theme.
It’s quite simple and nothing to be worried about unless you have made customizarions to your functions.php file.I’m assuming that you have bought the theme and therefore it’s an easy guess that you already have the theme files on your PC/mac. All you have to do is to locate the functions.php file from the theme folder on your machine and reupload onto your server and that will do the trick.But if you’ve made any custonization, then all those changes will be lost. That’s why it’s always suggested to back your Wordpress site on a regular basis so you will always have a copy to revert to, in case you mess things up. Alternatively you can also request your hosting company to restore a recent backup (most hosts do this). Again, this is only needed if you’ve got custom changes made on the file. But if not, the fix in the paragraph above will easily work for you.Hope it helps!
There is an encoded PHP code in my WordPress theme. Can anyone help decode it?
This is a PHP Code Injection attack that is most likely attempting to exploit a known vulnerability in the Wordpress framework. It is using Base64 encoded PHP code (the random letters and numbers) to inject itself (after decoding) onto your hosting server via eval() which is a programming language construct that is present in nearly all programming languages, including PHP.To start cleaning up the injected malicious base64_decode code, all you need to do is upload the brilliant cleaner_2.5.php file written by PHP Beginners to the root of the domain and then run the script from the website. The script will start to scan and remove any detected malicious code from PHP files. Please make sure you backup your website files before running this script so that it is possible to revert back any changes made by the cleaner script.Make sure you change the WordPress user and database password after cleanup.
When/why should I use a WordPress plugin (existing or custom) over functions.PHP file?
Opinions on this vary. I spent many years adding things to functions.php, and now I do a bit of both.Generally speaking you should use functions.php for things that you want tied specifically to your theme (such as enqueuing stylesheets) , and plugins for things you want the site to retain even if the theme is changed. Rather than creating several plugins for simple things you can also create a plugin you can use to add several different things that you might ordinarily add to functions.php.You will also want to use a plug-in for many things if you are customizing a site through the use of a child theme. While most files in a child theme will override the same file in the parent theme, that is not true for functions.php. In this situation functions.php in the parent theme loads after functions.php in the child theme. So you could use functions.php in the child theme to add things, but not to override the parent. You would also use functions.php in the child theme to enqueue your styles.Child Themes " WordPress Codex.WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin – Smashing MagazineCreating a custom functions plugin for end usersWhy You Shouldn’t Use functions.php (And What You Should Do Instead)Stop adding code to your WordPress theme's functions.php file
What are some good resources to learn PHP?
I think one of the best educational materials for PHP available anywhere, and perhaps most critical to it’s success is the PHP Documentation.It’s available in 11 languages, and although I can only attest to the quality of the English documentation as far as I am aware it is exhaustive. This is important because many projects go undocumented or under-documented, which makes it difficult for beginners (and experts) to use them.The descriptions provided for each item mentioned in the documentation, with some exceptions, are usually good enough to stand on their own, but there is also a comment section. It’s not an incredibly vibrant community of commenters, but there are often some explanatory gems or enlightening code proposed in the comments, most other documentation sources don’t enable and kind of user-commenting.
Is there a website where I can paste my html/css and it converts it to a wordpress theme?
Instead of finding a website to place your HTML/CSS you can take a little pain and time to study the basic WordPress theme hierarchy. Once you have a handle on WordPress hierarchy you can place your HTML in the index.php file and your CSS in your style.css file. That will do the trick for you. But it would only be a very simplistic and static website.To add more functionality and to make it dynamic you will need to further tweak other files .I hope it helps !