When a new plugin update causes trouble, the first thing we can do is to roll back to previous known good version. In last version of WordPress.org, we can easily find history versions of a plugin at Other Versions section…
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When trying to update stock Twenty Fourteen theme today, I ran into a theme update failing problem. The error message is “Download failed. Failed to write request to temporary file.”. The first reaction was file / folder permission setting. But it…
Sometimes, we need to replace the original images because they are just way to big or not using the right format. We can do manual replacement with the optimized version. But consider this: the images were uploaded a long time…
If you know WordPress database inside and out, the user_nicename shouldn’t be strange to you. It is such kind of thing that has been ignored and easily overlooked, but hackers are always trying to dig into and get useful information…
Although WooCommerce default page templates are mobile responsive overall, further polish is required to match the theme for each specific project. In one of my latest projects, I ran into the problem with default WooCommerce product quantity input box. It…
Is your WordPress site infected with malware? It can be extremely headache to deal with. Scanning and cleanup a hacked site isn’t a simple task. There are many things involved and many techniques required to get it done properly. But…
I backup database daily, and send multiple copies to different locations. One is my Amazon S3 bucket for backups. If backup task failed, a notification email will be sent to me. And I am getting notification email of this sort…
My client wants online video streaming directly from his Dropbox account to WordPress site, SECURELY. It is fairly easy to get content from Dropbox’s public folder. To read content from any folder that is not publicly shared, one needs to…
WordPress is testing background update. One of my site running on WordPress 3.7 alpha has been quietly updated to 3.7 beta. I didn’t even know until I received an update notification email.
If you are keen to WordPress performance, you should have known CDN (Content Delivery Network). The purpose is to deploy website content across multiple servers, to make webpage load faster from end user’s perspective. I am not writing this to…