This is a fantastic question – I’ve personally never run into this before, but here’s what I’d try, assuming: you have an image of a server that you’ve been using to spin up new instances you’re using a CDN and cloud storage for images and uploads (rather than having a local uploads folder) With those … Read more
After spending the entire day working on this, I finally found a guide that worked perfectly: https://theblogpress.com/blog/seeing-weird-characters-on-blog-how-to-fix-wordpress-character-encoding-latin1-to-utf8/ Before that, I tried following @Rarst’s information, tried exporting the database and manually cleaning it, tried the UTF-8 Sanitize Plugin with a modified version from here http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/ultimate-solution-to-weird-utf-character-encoding-problem (which actually worked pretty well, but didn’t fix all the characters. … Read more
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] will not be empty in WordPress, because it is filled in wp_fix_server_vars() (file wp-includes/load.php). This function is called in wp-settings.php before any plugin is loaded. So you can use it. But always escape the value. It is global and can be changed by any other code, so you cannot trust its value. A different … Read more
A reverse proxy could work, such as varnish or nginx. Using varnish as an example: backend blog { .host = “blog-server-ip”; } backend default { .host = “current-domain-ip”; } sub vcl_recv { if (req.rul ~ “^/blog/”) { req.backend = blog; } }
WordPress stores content in the database, there are not any physical files with the content of the pages(or posts). The theme’s template files control how to render and display your site, you can find those files in wp-content/themes/YOUR-ACTIVE-THEME-NAME-HERE.. You can find lots of information on themes and their development here. http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development Additional information and guidance … Read more
You explicitly mention three services in your question title: EC2, RDS and EBS. If they’re the three services you’re interested in, then yes, very easily. EC2 + EBS are pretty much the same thing, EBS is simply a persistent storage extension to EC2, and RDS is a full MySQL database – you should be able … Read more
Well website (WordPress) page speed and load depends on many things. MySql Queries Image optimisation Css files (more cs files more page load and page speed time). Javascript files ( more js files more page load and page speed time). Defer parsing of JavaScript Minify JavaScript Minify CSS Enable gzip compression Leverage browser caching Minimize … Read more
WordPress local development environment: Local development environments could apply to developing any type of application but there are some specific WordPress gotchas that could hinder your transition from local to dev. The goal of a local development environment is to mimic as close as possible the production environment and allow seamless transition. Matching URL If … Read more
Souljacker, I would first take a look at your plugins. Star Ratings for Reviews hasn’t been updated for over 3 years and looks like its real heavy on the db. I saw some raw sql with some INNER JOINS that look troublesome. On the server side you should implement some object caching. APC is the … Read more
Styles and scripts are always set up by the functions wp_enqueue_script() and wp_enqueue_style(), which have to be tied to a particular action hook in order to function. I took a peek inside Contact Form 7, and it looks like it’s using action tags of wpcf7_enqueue_scripts and wpcf7_enqueue_styles to add them to the wp_print_scripts and wp_print_styles … Read more