I have a client who runs multiple adult toy stores and needed a website for his products and locations so I made the website but had problems with EVERY SINGLE WordPress age verification plugin I’ve tried. For some reason I was having trouble verifying the age and displaying the website properly after the age verification process. The problem might be due to the hosting but still I had to find another working solution for this issue. So I came up with a simple, light-weight code that won’t affect the speed of the website and won’t bulk up the website as in page size (it’s only 1.23KB). Once the visitor verifies their age, they won’t be asked to verify their age until they clear their cookies on their browsers. If they click on Exit button they’ll be redirected to about:blank.

Age Verification Code For Website

Age verification code for website needs to be added to footer.php right before the </body> tag if you’re running a WordPress website:

<div id="age-verify">
<div style="max-width: 350px;margin:0 auto;padding-top: 80px;text-align:center"><img src="https://img.icons8.com/flat_round/64/000000/lock--v5.png"><br><br><h2 style="color:white">Are you 21 or older?</h2><p>This website requires you to be 21 years of age or older. Please verify your age to view the content, or click Exit to leave.</p><button style="background: green" onclick="acceptCookie();">I'm over 21</button><br><a style="color:white" href="about:blank"><button style="background: #ce2c2c">Exit</button></a></div></div>

<style>#age-verify{position: fixed;z-index: 9998;top: 0;right: 0;left: 0;bottom: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%;background-color: #000;color:#fff;font-family:inherit;padding:20px;visibility:hidden}
#age-verify button{color:inherit;border:0;padding:10px;margin-top:10px;width:100%;cursor:pointer}
@media only screen and (max-width:600px){#age-verify{max-width:100%;bottom:0;left:0;border-radius:0}}</style>

<script>function acceptCookie(){document.cookie="cookieaccepted=1; expires=Thu, 18 Dec 2030 12:00:00 UTC; path=/",document.getElementById("age-verify").style.visibility="hidden"}document.cookie.indexOf("cookieaccepted")<0&&(document.getElementById("age-verify").style.visibility="visible");</script>

Here’s how it looks:

How to add it to WordPress

In order to add it to your WordPress site, go to your Appearance > Theme Editor > Theme Footer (footer.php) and paste the above code right before </body> tag.

Why use this age verification code for your website?

• You won’t need a plugin for this purpose
• It’s very light-weight (1.23KB)
• It won’t affect your page speed
• No database queries needed
• Customizable
• Responsive
• It works like a charm!

Why Duplicator?

Duplicator makes the website transfer process very simple. If you are not happy with your current domain and move your site to a new domain, this plugin is the only tool you need. Duplicator is also very handy if you want to use the same website template on multiple sites. Just create 1 back up and install it on unlimited sites with Duplicator with some easy steps such as:

• Install Duplicator Plugin On Your Existing WordPress Site
• Create A Back Up For Your Existing WordPress Site
• Move WordPress Site To New Host Or New Domain
• Install Your New WordPress Site

Install Duplicator Plugin On Your Existing WordPress Site

First thing, you need to install Duplicator plugin on your current site so the plugin can create a back up.

Create A Back Up For Your Existing WordPress Site

After you successfully installed and activated the Duplicator, it will appear on your WordPress side menu. Simply go to Duplicator>Packages.

On the following screen click Create New button. The plugin will create a package (back up) and save it for you so you can re-download it in the future.

After you click Create New button, you should see the setup screen, this is the first step of creating the database. You don’t have to edit anything on this screen, just click Next.

After you click Next, it will scan your site for a few seconds, this is the second step of the back up process. After the scan, you’ll see Scan Complete screen. Click Build button. 

Third and the last step of creating the database on Duplicator Plugin is called “Building Package”.  On this step, it will literally start building the zip file that contains all your WordPress site files and your database file (.sql file), in short; it’ll put everything about your site in a zip folder. This step might take a few minutes depending the size of your site.

Finally, back up creating process is done. Download both installer file (installer.php) and Archive file (zip file). Later you will upload these 2 files to your new site’s root folder.  Please keep reading.

Move WordPress Site To New Host Or New Domain (second part)

Now we have the Archive and the Installer file. These 2 files will the only files you will need in order to install the site but before that, we will have to take a few simple steps. First step is creating a new database with MySQL Databases. 

Create A Database

1. Go to your hosting page and look for cPanel and on the cPanel find and click MySQL Databases.
2. Create a new database and a new user for the new site. Then add this new user to the new database you just created. Remember, you will need the new user’s password later, so you might want to save it until the whole installation process is over.

► If  you haven’t assigned the domain to the new host, go ahead and assign the domain as an Addon Domain.

Second step is uploading the zip file and installer.php to your domain’s root folder. We have the back up files and a new database now. On the cPanel find and click File Manager. Find your new domain’s root folder and delete everything if there are any files and upload the zip file and installer.php file into this folder. If you are using shared hosting, your domain’s root folder would be in public_html folder.

Install Your New WordPress Site

After you have successfully uploaded the back up files. Simply go to example.com/installer.php

When you go to example.com/installer.php you should see the Deployment screen ↓ 

Click Next and you should see Install Database screen. Go ahead and enter the database name, user name and user password you created on MySQL Databases. After you entered these information click Test Database and if you entered everything correctly, you will see a Success notice. Then, click Next and on the pop up screen click Yes. 

On the following screen you will see the new settings of your freshly installed site. Click Next.

Congratulations! You have successfully moved your WordPress site to new host (or domain). Simply click Site Login to go to your WP Login page. Login credentials are the same as your old site’s WP login credentials.

Why Do I See This Error?

Even though you have SSL installed on for your domain, you can see this error and this simply means your website contains “http” links on its pages. You can even see this error on some pages instead of every page.  It can be an image that’s linked to an external url starts with “http” instead of “https”. We don’t want “http” links in our site so to eliminate this SSL error, we need to “fix” these “http” links.

Easy Solution For “Attackers might be able to see the images…” SSL Error

If your website was built with WordPress, simply download free Better Search Replace plugin, install and activate it on your website. Then on your WordPress dashboard hover on  and click Better Search Replace.

On the Search/Replace screen

1. Search for: http:
2. Replace with: https:
3. Select tables section, select all of them by clicking on a table and pressing CTRL+A on your keyboard.
4. Run as dry run: UNCHECK this so the plugin makes the necessary changes.
5. Click Run Search/Replace

It will search your database for http links and replace it with https. On some shared hosting packages you might need to change the “Max Page Size” to 1000 on Settings.