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…
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…
Author page is part of WordPress by default. Without manual change, author page URL exposes user login username. From SEO point of view, it may also create duplicated content. For blog website, author page is useful when there are multiple…
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…
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…
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…
I like listening to Matt Report podcast (A WordPress business podcast for entrepreneurs, startups and freelancers). One interesting question Matt asks his guests in the famous lightening round is, “What is the one plugin you can not live without?”. Interestingly,…