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add_action('admin_head', 'handpressed_custom_admin_css');

function handpressed_custom_admin_css() {
echo '<style>
#updraft-wrap .updated, #mceu_13, #ac-pro-version, #direct-feedback, .elementor-message {
display: none !important;
}
</style>';
}

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//add to functions.php
add_filter( 'xmlrpc_enabled', '__return_false' );

//add to .htaccess
# Block WordPress xmlrpc.php requests
<Files xmlrpc.php>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>

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<?php
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); // Display the links to the extra feeds such as category feeds
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links', 2 ); // Display the links to the general feeds: Post and Comment Feed
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' ); // Display the link to the Really Simple Discovery service endpoint, EditURI link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link' ); // Display the link to the Windows Live Writer manifest file.
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'index_rel_link' ); // index link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'parent_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); // prev link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'start_post_rel_link', 10, 0 ); // start link
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link', 10, 0 ); // Display relational links for the posts adjacent to the current post.
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' ); // Display the XHTML generator that is generated on the wp_head hook, WP version

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// remove admin bar
add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');

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// include a specific PHP file
function customIncludeFile($params = array()) {

	extract(shortcode_atts(array(
	    'file' => 'contact-form'
	), $params));

	ob_start();
	include(get_theme_root() . '/' . get_template() . "/$file.php");
	return ob_get_clean();

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// remove update notifications
<?php
function no_update_notification() {
	if (!current_user_can('activate_plugins')) remove_action('admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3);
}
add_action('admin_notices', 'no_update_notification', 1);

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// remove unnecessary menus
function remove_admin_menus () {
	global $menu;

	// all users
	$restrict = explode(',', 'Links,Comments');

	// non-administrator users
	$restrict_user = explode(',', 'Media,Profile,Users,Tools,Settings');

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// remove unnecessary page/post meta boxes
function remove_meta_boxes() {

	// posts
	remove_meta_box('postcustom','post','normal');
	remove_meta_box('trackbacksdiv','post','normal');
	remove_meta_box('commentstatusdiv','post','normal');
	remove_meta_box('commentsdiv','post','normal');
	remove_meta_box('categorydiv','post','normal');
	remove_meta_box('tagsdiv-post_tag','post','normal');

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// remove unnecessary dashboard widgets
function remove_dashboard_widgets(){

	global $wp_meta_boxes;

	// only remove "Right Now" for non-administrators
	if (!current_user_can('activate_plugins')) {
		unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_right_now']);
	}

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<?php

/**
 * Find Shortcode
 *
 */
function be_find_shortcode( $atts = array() ) {

	$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
		'shortcode' => '',