I would rather keep the WordPress php files and directory owned by someone other than www-data, and leave them read-only to www-data Well, why not? Just do it, but after it subscribe by hand to any (from at least two) channel of “Release Notification” (low activity, еasily controlled even by the eyes): mail list or … Read more
Ok, this was pretty strange. While only http// showed up in the URLs the database fields for the corrupted URLs were http://http// which obviously resulted in the error. I did another search & replace for those “double http” and that fixed it in the end. Still no idea why this only happened to some URLs … Read more
I’m a big fan of using Duplicator https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ I would move the whole site and then delete the plugins once moved.
Use the duplicator plugin. It basically make a snapshot and an Installer.php file. When moving the archive snapshot zip and php file to your new server, you navigate to http://yoursite.com/Installer.php. It’s like a setup process that asks you for your new database (you can point it to an empty database) and what the new URL … Read more
VICTORY. At least…no 404 anymore. I haven’t actually tried to use the script yet, too excited. Thanks for the direction, Nath! Here is what I did. I went to my theme and created a subfolder titled, “js.” In the same theme, I edited header.php to include the following just below : (The part in bold, … Read more
I’ll say what anybody reading this would say: what?! I mean, short answer: don’t open the .xml file but just save it. Your OS seems to be configured to open .xml with IE. Create a random .xml file on your desktop, right click, define the “open by default with…” don’t select IE but notepad.exe or … Read more
WordPress theme works on linux servers but white screen after move to Xampp
Configure WordPress to listen on a port other than 80
Server (VPS) is going down when editing a bigger wordpress article! (?)
From a WordPress perspective, there’s not a lot to configure for performance. You can set define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, false ); in your wp-config.php to disable logging, which will gain you some minimal savings. Beyond that, I would recommend working on making sure your heavier plugins are optimized as best as you can, reduce the number of … Read more