I run into a WordPress theme called Uncode, which has minimum requirement for server, “PHP Max Input Vars = 3000”. This is not rare case. I have worked with quite a few themes asking for the same setting. Make Uncode…
Do you have “/?doing_wp_cron” in every URL on your WordPress site? It happened to me recently on one of my site and bothered me a lot, because it attached itself to every URL on the website. Remove /?doing_wp_cron from URL…
After 8 years hardworking, the old iMac quit on me eventually. Instead of troubleshooting, I chose to upgrade to a new iMac. Of course, I already have TimeMachine backup on NAS disk. Hope the migration experience would be easy as…
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…
You may already know how to restore the classic editor interface in WordPress 5. (If not, please read How to Upgrade to WordPress 5.0 without losing Classic Editor.) But if you are using commercial theme / plugin, changes are that…
We mentioned how to change PHP settings on GoDaddy share hosting account a while ago, it is done in .user.ini file. This is a fairly common hack that can be applied to other similar hosting account at different hosting companies.…
The anxious waiting is over, WordPress 5.0 is finally launched. Other than the brand new Block Editor, there are other features which worth the upgrade. After all, it is 4.X no more but a brand new 5 series. If the…
Admin was the most common username for WordPress admin users. “Do not use admin as administrator username” is also a well-known WordPress security tip. Everybody knows this, so does hacker. If you like to know, other than Admin, there are…
When troubleshooting a production site, one of the challenge is dealing with the email communication. For example, we need to debug a problem on eCommerce website, but don’t want the actual client get interrupted by all the testing emails. Here…
Contact Form 7 (CF7) is one of the most popular WordPress plugin. As the simplest online contact form solution, it is also included in many commercial themes. But when online form doesn’t send out email, or website owner can’t receive…