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…
Category: Troubleshooting
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…
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…
When setup some of the WordPress themes, you may see Maximum Input Vars notification. It asks you to increase Max Input Vars in your host to be able to use the theme. After searching for help, you may find several options. But in my case…
BackWPup is a very popular comprehensive WordPress backup plugin. I use this plugin on some of my websites, and really don’t have any major problems with it. Sometimes, there were bugs here and there, but were quickly taken care of…
Troubleshooting a WordPress website is challenging. Troubleshooting a live site posses more challenges. You may have read a lot of advice on the Internet from somewhere, among which, “disable all plugins” is one that mentioned most. Should you? Troubleshooting WordPress:…
This troubleshooting indeed took me a while to even understand why this could happen. The symptom is pretty simple: when trying to access a new post, you are redirected to another (old) post. Sounds strange, here is how to recreate…
One of client’s WordPress site got hacked. The client can’t access the site, even admin dashboard at the back-end, because the site is always being redirected to a phishing site: http://www.indoforextrading.com/. If you run into exactly same problem, here is…
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…