According to this post: How to fix the admin menu margin-top bug in WordPress 5.5? There is no solution yet, but maybe this will help you find one. Personally, I tested locally and on a SiteGround server, but I can’t recreate the problem. However, if you can tell yourself it’s a PHP error like the … Read more
I decided not to try to install WP version 4.5.16 first, as I suspected it would have issues running in PHP 7.2+. Instead, I installed WP version 5.5.1, running in PHP 7.4. I copied in my theme and uploads files, connected it to my old database (via wp-config.php), and ran it. WordPress detected the old … Read more
My first instinct upon reading this was that a WordPress Plugin may give you more control over this behaviour. Have you considered writing a plugin to pull and apply the updates? A quick Google on the subject found this: https://github.com/afragen/github-updater Any use? Likewise, reviewing their implementation may give you clues as to how to address … Read more
At our company we use a good handful of plugins, most notably WooCommerce. The way that we have things integrated, and the systems built around that, mean that doing wholesale updates are usually going to involve a lot of fixes and debugging. But, in eCommerce, staying up to date with security fixes is a MUST. … Read more
REST or anything RESTful is a generally adhered to standard of getting things done via API. It also has the capability of documenting itself. Now I had expected to write an answer here about how it’s not a great idea to allow endpoints to update or modify any of your codebase but I see it … Read more
I don’t believe WordPress itself has a max size. However, the database behind it has a max length that the wp_posts.post_content field can be. If we look in wp-admin/includes/schema.php, we can see the SQL used to create the wp_posts table: CREATE TABLE $wpdb->posts ( ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, post_author bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL … Read more
When you say you removed the WP Super Cache plugin: did you deactivate the plugin, or just delete the plugins/wp-super-cache directory? I suspect the latter, because it looks like your site is still trying to load WP Super Cache files. You probably need to update your wp-config.php file to remove the define( ‘WP_CACHE’, true ); … Read more
I sorted this out. It looks like the core team rolls out new versions of the database with their beta program. So, it’s plenty easy to get advance warning. And, the database upgrades live in wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php. There’s a sequence of functions in there named things like upgrade_500, upgrade_560, upgrade_590. They’re named for the WordPress version … Read more
The problem is with the kommiku plugin. Disable the plugin by renaming the kommiku folder in the wp-content/plugins directory. A lot of other users seem to be experiencing bugs and problems with the plugin. Also check your .htaccess file and see if any there are any weird redirects. If there are you can delete it … Read more
For Ques#1, You don’t need to use prepare here. Its called upon your data internally. See this line in code here – http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/wp-db.php#L1220 For Ques#2, Why are you updating a post with sql queries? You should be using WordPress API for that – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_post