It’s not difficult. You need to transfer files to the new server. Create a blank database and keep it’s name, user_name (this user must have all privileges of this newly created database) and password. Edit config.php file on new server with the these new details. Read: WordPress Codex for transferring site
It could be anything: A slow and un-optimized MySQL server A theme not suited for big databases A faulty plugin combination … You can make sure that it’s not a plugin or theme issue by disabling all plugins and using a built in theme (I like Twenty Twelve). What else you can do to find … Read more
Yes, that should be enough if you don’t install poorly written plugins or themes. You should use PHP 5.5 and its built-in OPcache and a multisite setup for more sites. This will reduce load time and the resources you need for the sites.
To add to Peter’s comment, it is very much depending on the technology you use which in turn might depend on the software architecture. If you can create a condition in which you can serve cached pages 99% of the time (by using caching plugins or varnish in front of your site) then you will … Read more
It appears this was actually a firewall issue, not a permissions issue. Opening up a certain range of IP addresses on UFW via the Wordfence support article fixed the issue. The backupwordpress plugin seemed to work correctly once the DNS was resolved fully as well.
It seems to be a caching issue, though there isn’t a single cause for it. There is still ongoing discussion, as well as multiple suggestions for fixes about this on the WordPress issue tracker: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37889 You can fix the symptoms by ensuring pages under “/wp-admin” are never cached. If using Apache, you can do this … Read more
If you are already backing up your website in cpanel (both database and files) then no, you will not need any plugins. However, you will need to access the website through cpanel/ftp to restore the backup. But if you want to restore the backup in the back-end, you can find some plugins that will do … Read more
On server B: $result = wp_remote_post(‘http://serverA.com/?api=json’, array( ‘method’ => ‘POST’, ‘redirection’ => 1, ‘httpversion’ => ‘1.0’, ‘blocking’ => true, ‘headers’ => array(), ‘body’ => array(), ‘cookies’ => array() )); if ( is_wp_error( $result ) ) { return ‘bad connection!’; } $json = $result[‘body’]; $posts = json_decode($json); Now you have $posts as usual php array. var_dump($posts) … Read more
After more than a half of a day of battle, I found out that style.css has to be in direct subdirectory of a child theme. I had placed it under the /css/ folder together with other styles. That’s why WordPress couldn’t find PHP files… Weird thing is that this folder structure has worked when I … Read more
Found an answer! It’s an issue with the .htaccess file. I needed to write a rule in the .htaccess file for this exception, after renaming my download folder to downloads. So it still requires the folder to be renamed. RewriteRule ^download/(.+)$ downloads/$1 This rule should be before the wordpress rules in the file. This makes … Read more