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Invisible Columns for TablePress Search
TablePress is a WordPress plugin to create beautiful functional tables. Its search box is particularly useful. When entities have synonyms, such as gene names like P2X1, with which P2RX1 and P2X purinoceptor 1 are synonymous, one may want to make a table searchable by synonyms while hiding them to keep the table simple. Here is a list of the Brasilian singer Astrud Gilberto's masterpieces, as an example. Titles in Portuguese and English are shown side by side. How to create a searchable invisible column You can define visibility in CSS as below. Let's hide the 2nd column. You can still search the table by English titles, although you don't see […]
Simplest Way to Block Spam Comments
My WordPress posts would be swamped with dozens of spam comments, all from Russia. With just a few clicks, I have successfully blocked them to regain my peace of mind. It is extremely simple if your website is proxied by Cloudflare. Log in to your Cloudflare account, go to Security > Firewall Rules, set up a rule like below, and block access from the country(-ies) altogether. Unless your website is about Russian liberal arts or the like, you will lose practically nothing by doing so.