wp_schedule_event is only run when your site is visited and the scheduled time has past. If varnish is serving a non expired cached page then your visitor is not hitting WordPress. Schedules a hook which will be executed by the WordPress actions core on a specific interval, specified by you. The action will trigger when … Read more
If I use Apache & ngnix together will I have fewer problems? Yes, of course. Please be sure to install and setup mod_rpaf in Apache, if you are going to setup Nginx as reverse proxy to Apache. I was wondering if I used Apache and Nginx together, with nginx serving static files, apache php would … Read more
The PHP Fatal Error will halt any further output, so yes this is the reason that only the header is displayed. Did you install the theme via FTP or did you install using the zip upload? I’d guess that you missed some files when uploading.
According to the official system requirements, PHP version 5.2.4 or greater should work. However, some plugins and / or themes may require PHP version 5.3, though. BTW, PHP 5.2 has reached its End of Life a couple of year back (in 2011).
Solved changing the location block with this: location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; }
Check the mime.types file in Nginx’s config directory (if you’re on Linux this is typically /etc/nginx/). If there’s no MIME type file, check to see whether MIME types are declared inside nginx.conf. If not, you may need to create a mime.types file and include it in nginx.conf. Here’s the information on the Nginx wiki about … Read more
Let me quote what’s mentioned in the official FAQ of WordPress.com Stats plugin (JetPack statistics module uses this plugin as the base)… The plugin collects stats via a javascript call, so as long as the JS call is on the page stats will be collected just fine, whether the page is cached or not. In … Read more
512MB should be fine, especially if you just started building your site. I’ve ran single WP installs on DigitalOcean droplets with 512MB of RAM without any issues in the past, also on NginX. Obviously, server stability also greatly depends on how NginX, MySQL etc have been configured (ie. not to consume too much memory and … Read more
The best way to accomplish this is using three server blocks: one to redirect http to https, one to redirect the https www-name to no-www, and one to actually handle requests. The reason for using extra server blocks instead of ifs is that server selection is performed using a hash table, and is very fast. … Read more
Direct quote from Pitfalls and Common Mistakes: Taxing Rewrites: By using the return directive we can completely avoid evaluation of regular expression. Please use return instead of rewrite for permanent redirects. Here’s my approach to this use-case… location = /content/unique-page-name { return 301 /new-name/unique-page-name; }