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WordPress 4.8.2 redirects back after install and asks to delete/change config

from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32686663/error-the-file-wp-config-php-already-exists Is just a browser cache. On first URL load, you are redirected from domain.ext to domain.ext/wp-admin/setup-config.php If you are on Chrome, just open the developers console, go to “Network” tab. Reload the page and right click anywhere in the console, and hit “Clear browser cache”. Now refresh again and you will see your … Read more

If I place custom files in WordPress root, will they be deleted?

Taken from this link there are several other options for adding your own CSS, if you don’t want to put it in the theme: Use Theme Options and paste in CSS Use a plugin to insert CSS/JS. You could also write your own plugin to ‘host’ the CSS file neatly in wp-content/plugins/ somewhere. Use a … Read more

Tags are automatically converted if they match post names. Stop It!

Fixed by editing the post tag itself inside the tags section of the admin page. Thanks for all help.

disk was full but wordpress still having issues

Sounds like the upgrade download corrupted (probably because of disk space) – just do the upgrade manually.

After upgrading WordPress, can’t access admin interface

It most likely was a bad upgrade. You should manually download the latest WP version and overwrite all directories except wp-content. Your wp-config.php file won’t be overwritten. This should fix the issue.

Trouble After Update, Removing Plugin

It looks like the the page is not “zoomed” in. It appears that the image: http://www.millermusicllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_3508.jpg Is bigger on the first link as apposed to the second link, also styling on the style.css is different in general: First link: <img src=”http://www.millermusicllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_3508.jpg” alt=”” title=”miller” width=”320″ height=”330″ class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-30″> Second link: <img src=”http://www.millermusicllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC_3508.jpg” alt=”” title=”miller” width=”320″ … Read more

Restoring from a Backup after Update

It’s never a good idea to run an old version of WordPress, so I would recommend finding the source of the issues above all else. Old versions receive no security updates and have no long-term support, so by rolling back you’re leaving yourself extremely vulnerable to security issues that have since been fixed. To fix … Read more

Updates for a private plugin?

Since WordPress v5.8, it is a lot simpler to create yourself a basic version of custom plugin update functionality. Step 1 Create JSON file on your server. It will contain info about latest version number of your plugin(s) and link to ZIP file(s) for WordPress to automatically download it when update is triggered. Example location: … Read more

How can I upgrade wordpress with manual?

A “Manual” install involves downloading the WordPress zip and extracting it to your site directory (via ftp or a file manager like cPanel has). make sure your wp-content folder is fully backed up as you will need it. then run the extract.

No feedback when installing plugins or updating

For anyone having the same problem I have found the culprit. I can’t remember which one it was, but I had an outdated plugin enabled to gzip output. As soon as I disabled that, the problem went away. I guess that is what you get for using outdated plugins (that hasn’t been updated in over … Read more

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