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Instead, I’m excited about the actual utility of NFTs. Allowing gamers to own their assets, delivering fair royalty commissions to musicians and artists, and making concert tickets impossible to scalp while providing a sweet digital memento are some of the use cases I find interesting.
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The most important characteristic for any organization is not data; it is quality data. In a study, IBM estimated that bad data costs the U.S. economy $3.1 trillion per year. Such costs are incurred when your employees spend time cleaning data or rectifying the errors caused by bad data. Apart from financial costs, bad data becomes a source of dissatisfaction and discontent between you and your customers, partners, and other business relationships.
This clearly explains the importance of housing quality data in your organization. But what exactly is it, and how can you measure data quality? Let’s take a look.
Do you want to disable directory browsing in WordPress?
Directory browsing can put your site at risk by showing important information to hackers which can be used to exploit vulnerabilities in your site’s plugins, themes, or even your hosting server.
In this article, we will show you how you can disable directory browsing in WordPress.
What Does Disabling Directory Browsing in WordPress Do?
Every time someone visits your website, your web server will process that request.
Usually, the server delivers an index file to the visitor’s browser, such as index.html. However, if the server can’t find an index file, then it may show all the files and folders in the requested directory instead.
This is directory browsing, and it’s often enabled by default.
If you’ve ever visited a site and seen a list of files and folders instead of a webpage, then you’ve seen directory browsing in action.
The problem is that hackers can use directory browsing to see the files that make up your website, including all the themes and plugins that you’re using.
If any of these themes or plugins have known vulnerabilities, then hackers can use this knowledge to take control of your WordPress blog or website, steal your data, or perform other actions.
Attackers may also use directory browsing to look at the confidential information inside your files and folders. They might even copy your website’s contents, including content that you would usually charge for such as ebook downloads or online courses.
This is why it’s considered a best practice to disable directory browsing in WordPress.
How to Check is Directory Browsing is Enabled in WordPress
The easiest way to check whether directory browsing is currently enabled for your WordPress website is by simply visiting the /wp-includes/ folder link like this: https://example.com/wp-includes/.
You’ll want to replace www.example.com with your website’s URL.
If you get a 403 Forbidden or similar message, then directory browsing is already disabled on your WordPress website.
If you see a list of files and folders instead, then this means that directory browsing is enabled for your website.
Since this makes your website more vulnerable to attack, you’ll typically want to block directory browsing in WordPress.
How to Disable Directory Browsing in WordPress
To disable directory listing, you’ll need to add some code to your site’s .htaccess file.
To access the file, you’ll need an FTP client, or you can use the file manager app inside your WordPress hosting control panel.
After connecting to your site, simply open your website’s ‘public’ folder and find the .htaccess file. You can edit the .htaccess file by downloading it to your desktop and then opening it in a text editor like Notepad.
At the very bottom of the file, simply add the following code:
Options -Indexes
It will look something like this:
Once you’re done, save your .htaccess file and upload it back to your server using an FTP client.
That’s it. Now if you visit the same http://example.com/wp-includes/ URL, you’ll get a 403 Forbidden or similar message.
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Allow users to save a partially filled WordPress form as a draft so they can complete it later before submitting it with our Forminator plugin.
Sometimes, form-filling takes time – especially multipage or lengthy forms. With Forminator’s Save and Continue option, users can save a form as a draft and complete a form at a later time via a custom link.
Saving long forms as a draft is now an option for your users!
This highly requested feature is available and easy as ever to implement. You’ll be able to customize your form’s settings to allow draft retention periods, allow drafts of forms sent to an email address, edit messages, and more!
This brief article takes you through all the features and how to implement them.
Pick a previously created form or start a new one from scratch.
If you’d like to add this to a previously created form, simply click the Gear Icon and then Edit.
The Edit button will get you started!
And for a new form, the process will be the same. Once you get your form started, you’ll click Behavior to begin. When you scroll down a bit, you’ll see Save and Continue.
Ready for launch? Click Enable Save and Continue to activate.
One click is all it takes to get started.
When enabled, a dropdown menu will appear with customizable options. There is a Configuration and Permissions area.
Once enabled, you’ll have two options.
We’ll start with all of the options in the Configuration tab.
Draft Retention Period
Choose the days a form’s draft will be stored on your server. Then, once the time expires, they’ll be automatically deleted.
By default, it’s set at 30-days.
Set any amount of days you’d like.
Set whatever time frame suits your needs.
Save Form Link Text
You can also customize the text when it comes to saving the form. This is what users will see.
Whatever you want to include in your messaging, do so here.
Additionally, when a form is successfully submitted, the user will get a message. Customize the message to anything you’d like.
It even shows what form fields will not be saved.
Your message can include links, form data, and more – to make them as clear, personalized, and precise as possible.
Enabling Draft to Email
When a user wants to save and continue at a later date, there’s no better way to remind them than by having an email sent to their account. By activating this feature, a link to the draft will be sent directly to them with the option to resume.
It’s as easy as ever to let users’ send the incomplete form to their email.
As soon as you have your Save and Continue features set up – click Update on the form.
The Permission Area
Decide whether every user can save their format as a draft – or just registered users. That’s all done from the Permission tab.
There are two options to choose from.
Just choose your option – and it’s all set.
User Experience
So, now that you know how to set up the Save and Continue feature, what does it look like from the users’ perspective?
Of course, every form is different. Unlimited style options, fields, etc., can be used (which we cover in numerous articles, like this one). For this article, we’ll keep it simple and have a look at what happens when a user saves the form we just created.
First, they’ll see the Save as Draft Option on every page (if you have multiple pages) of the form as they complete it.
Here, it’s on page three.
When clicked, it will bring up the custom (or default) message to let them know their form was saved. Plus, the user will get a link that they can copy and paste so that they can get back to the form at any time.
As you can see, the text that we created in the admin is clearly visible.
Since we incorporated the Send Draft Link, this option is available. All the user has to do is enter their email address and hit – in this case – the ‘Send Draft Link’ button (which, as we talked about, can be edited to say something else).
Instantly, an email will go to the user’s email address. It contains the name of the form, website, link, and expiration date of the link.
A short and sweet reminder for the user to complete the form.
All a user has to do is click the link to return to the form and complete it!
Good Save
With Forminator’s new Save and Continue feature, forms will be saved and not forgotten by users who, for whatever reason, can’t complete a form in one session. As you can see, it’s simple to set up in just a few clicks and highly customizable. Plus, this feature is entirely free to use.
This feature is a welcome addition to Forminator, as it was a top request from our users. And so, we’re happy to now include it.
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