We are thrilled to announce the release of Madara 1.8, packed with new features and improvements designed to enhance your experience and provide greater customization options. Here’s a detailed look at what’s new in this release: New Additions Updates Fixes Security Enhancements Explore the New Theme Customizer We invite you to explore the demo of…
In the latest package update of Madara (v. 1.7.4.1), we have included a small add-on call OptionTree Lean. We recommend all users to use this plugin to enhance your Madara site’s security. How to do it? So the main purpose of the OptionTree Lean add-on is to make your Theme Option read-only, to prevent any…
A recent exploitation happens in several Madara sites surprise us. The malicious code added this script (https://gdpr.web0.eu/scripts/cookie.js) to the site and causes many popups & redirection. The code is added to many .php files, .js files and also in the Theme Options data. We conducted the investigation immediately and find out that the attack aimed…
Cleaning a WordPress site that has been affected with malicious code can be a complex process, but here are some general steps that can be taken to help clean up the site: It’s important to note that these steps may not be enough to completely clean up your site, especially if the malware has been…
Note: this is a copy of the post from: https://art.art/blog/how-to-protect-images-on-your-website 1. Check the terms and conditions Before publishing your work on a platform or a website, read the terms and conditions to ensure that said sources have a clause that protects your intellectual property, and whether the image will remain yours once it’s uploaded. Look…
By default, there are the defined manga status: In case you need to add more status, for instance, the status of how manga is being translated. Then you can use the filter wp-manga-series-status-list to add more custom status for your site. You can follow the steps below 2. You will see new custom status that…
A cronjob is a function that will run periodically on your site. For example, in Madara, we use cronjob to do the following work: delete temporary folders which are used when uploading chapters send notifications to manga’s subscribers If you use a crawler, then the crawler also has its own cronjobs to crawl data WordPress…
By default, WordPress uses your server’s PHP configuration for max upload file size. So to change the max upload file size for your WordPress site, you will need to change this on your PHP configuration. The options control this are post_max_size and upload_max_filesize. You will need to have root access to your server (via SSH…
When you have thousands of Mangas/Novels and thousands of visits per day, it’s time to carefully consider the performance issue. The first thing to keep in mind is that to improve site performance, you will need more than a good plugin or theme. There are many aspects contributing to site performance: Server power: number of…
The BunnyCDN plugin ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/bunnycdn/ ) does a good job in replacing all static resources URL into a CDN link (for example: yoursite.b-cdn.net/link/to/your/resource.jpg). However, if you use “Paged Style” reading mode in chapter reading, the next/prev image link will not work. The BunnyCDN plugin cannot replace URL correctly. To fix this, add this code to…
Some of you have asked how to move the badge from title to above the thumbnail image. It’s quite simple with Template Override and a little CSS. The fact is, you can override most of theme’s HTML using Child Theme. All you need to do is copy the file you want to override, place it…
Some of you have asked about adding Ads/Banner between paragraphs in a Text Chapter (or Web Novel content). It’s quite easy using “the_content” filter. It’s too small so we don’t want to create an add-on for this feature. So here you are, the code. You can place this custom code in your child theme functions.php…
Some customers ask for the ability to add banners between chapter images. We do not want to add an option for that in the theme, but leave a way to hack that. It’s the hook ‘madara_after_chapter_image‘ that you can use. Here’s the guide. Put this code your child theme functions.php file The above code will…
As few customers ask, is it possible to count views for chapter? Well, we intend to develop a plugin for that, but it is time consuming so I wrote a guide on this blog first. It just take few minutes to understand and implement the code. If you don’t understand about coding, this is the…
In 1.5.1.4, we release a feature to allow setting up a “All Manga (A-Z)” page which lists all mangas in alphabetical order, as you can see here: http://demo.mangabooth.com/all-manga-a-z/ I know some may ask what if I do not use English? The latin characters will not work for you, right. Don’t worry. We already think about that….
An unexpected situation: Option Tree is removed from WordPress.org. Just so you know, Madara uses Option Tree plugin for its Theme Options panel. For unknown reason, since 06.11.2018, it is removed from WordPress.org. We don’t know why, but as far as we know, it is working stable without problems. So why we find an alternative…
Since first release, we recomend using Top 10 and AccessPress Social Share plugin. However, a number of our customers suggest that these two plugins are too CPU-consuming. We did a few tests and comparison, and come to conclusion that: Yes, these two plugins are not too optimized. Turning off these two plugins would increase the…
We put a lot of effort to improve the performance of Madara since 1.5. And now, coming 1.5.0.4, you can feel significantly changes in loading speed of all pages. What we do? Poorly written and unnecessary queries are removed JSON data (for manga and chapter storage) is now moved into database, so queries are much…
Madara is the first and complete solution for building a Manga site on WordPress. It is fast, robust and extensible. Data is stored on the cloud, which you can choose from Amazon S3, BlogSpot or Imgur. Of course, you can store data on your site as well. It has modern design and features such as…
How to integrate WP Discuz plugin to replace default WP Comments System or Disqus
A popular replacement of default WP Comments System is Disqus. However, the plugin has too low rating on wordpress.org due to lack of support and the “not synchorization” between WP Comments and Disqus Comment. A new comer “WP Dicuz” plugin is reaching 50,000 downloads and has almost 5 stars rating (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/). In this post, we…