[How To] Hide My WP Advanced Text Mapping

Hide My WP Ghost 5.0.12 brings new ways customize or hide the classes from your source code.

Hide Class Name

If you want to completely hide a class use the {blank} pattern to accomplish that.

Random Class Name

If you want to set a random id for a specific class, use the {rand} pattern to accomplish that.

The most common classes used by WordPress and can be detected by theme detectors are those who contain the prefix wp-. Check the website source code and see if you find classes with wp- and add them in the Text Mapping.

Demo Text Mapping in Hide My WP Ghost

Here is a list of classes we usually add in Text Mapping for our WordPress websites:

Hiding plugins like Woocommerce and Elementor

Some plugins like Woocommerce and Elementor are build only for WordPress CMS. When their class names are detected in the source-code by the theme detectors, you will receive the information that your website is using WordPress CMS even if all the WP CMS paths are changed and hidden.

We do not recommend it, but, if you want to include classes like woocommerce and elementor in the text mapping, make sure you switch on the option to change the names also in CSS and JS files. This way you avoid JS and Theme Style errors.

NOTE! This option will create dynamic CSS and JS files to be able to run the Text Mapping in all files the static files. This option will significantly slow the loading time so we recommend you to use a cache plugin to optimize the loading speed for your website.

What can go wrong?

Plugins like Woocommerce add the class name in source code but it also adds scripts in JS and CSS files based on that class name.

Now, if you change the class name with Hide My WP > Text Mapping, even if you activate the option to load all CSS and JS files dynamically and change the name of the class in all CSS and JS files, there are browser caches, server caches, probably CDN which also caches the files and when you access the admin or the frontend, some CSS files may load from the cache while others don’t.

Because of this, the class name can appear changed in some places and unchanged in others. This will lead to style and script errors in WordPress.

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