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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: server load issueAre you using a cache plugin/solution? If so, does it require you to flush the cache once you make edits? Your site might be pushing old content if it’s not properly set up.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post author is changing when editing postsGo to the Post/Posts that are giving you trouble. Make edits if you need, but before clicking Save/Publish go to the top of the page, click on the dropdown arrow and tell WordPress to display the author field. A new dropdown will appear after the content box, check what it says – does it allow you to switch it back to the original author?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Installation IP address and Email headersTwo ideas:
1) Use this plugin to search inside WordPress files https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/string-locator/ and check if it is hardcoded somewhere.
2) If the first one doesn’t turn up any result – it might be on the database somewhere, so you could look into a tool like Search and Replace https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/. It’s made for WordPress and it’s very convenient because it auto loads your Database access info from your wp-config.php file. Then once you have it set up, you can do a search or search and replace of the IP for the new string/new ip/nothing (empty). BACKUPS ARE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS STEP.
Hope it helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Flip an image on clickHi. The term you want to look into is flip card/flipping cards. With just a quick google search I found this plugin: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/flipping-cards/. It seems to be free and if you look at the demo https://www.info-d-74.com/references/ the default behavior is set to HOVER instead of CLICK – it might have options to change it or you might have to modify the plugin in some way.
Then there’s a paid plugin that does something similar: https://codecanyon.net/item/flipping-cards-3d-wordpress/4135044 that you might want to look into.
Hope this helps orient you in some way.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Password Reset Email Not SendingDo you mean “not sending” in the literal sense or do you actually mean “not getting to my user’s email inbox”.
There are ways to track SMTP usage through logs, it will depend on what you are using, but if for example, you are using sendmail, you can check out this tutorial: https://serverfault.com/questions/59602/where-to-check-log-of-sendmail
If you find out that the emails are going out, I’d look into the issue of spam/whitelisting. Your emails might be getting there, but they could be in the SPAM folder. I’ve enountered this before and the workaround I found was to use a transactional email service like Mandrill (from MailChimp) https://www.mandrill.com. It’s neat because the service has a WordPress plugin https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wpmandrill/ that you can set up really easy and it automatically overrides any WP MAIL or any email server related stuff. You won’t depend on SMTP anymore.
Hope this helps guide you in some way.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Installation not showing up in CpanelYes, like Steve said, it’s not a part of WordPress and it would also be hard to figure out without taking a look.
Long shot idea: If you are using Scriptaculous or any other type of “1 click install app” within cPanel to manage your WordPress install, you might want to check if they updated it and you don’t see your installs because of that.
Forum: Developing with WordPress
In reply to: Tracking WordPress plugin cpu/memory load – is it possible?I use Digital Ocean to host my sites and a really quick way to figure that out is to run htop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htop in the shell (assuming you have SSH access).
Then there’s a plugin I haven’t tested but I always wanted to: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/server-status-littlebizzy/ if you want to give it a shot go ahead – and let me know if it’s good.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Admin White screen but not as the rest…Look, since you have 10+ years of experience I don’t think there’s a ton of help I can provide, plus you named all the things you did to check what’s going on and It’s the same I would have done.
But you didn’t mention enabling WP DEBUG https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/WP_DEBUG, so, why don’t you give that a shot? If we are talking 75+ sites you could do it in 2 or 3 to see if you get any errors/notices and also to see if they are the same or if they vary.
You also mentioned an error log, are you saying you also checked the apache and mysql error logs? That could be useful.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: WampServer really slow accessing pages in WordPressDo you think there’s a chance you can try Bitnami to also rule out a WampServer-specific issue?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Creating Forms with Content XML ExportWell, I use Ninja Forms a lot and it has an Excel Open XML export addon for form submissions. Check it out here: https://ninjaforms.com/extensions/excel-export/.
Otherwhise if it doesn’t work of if it’s not what you need, I’d look into WP All Export http://www.wpallimport.com/export/. It’s a bit harder to use but you can export in XML format (not Excel Open XML) just about any type of content (posts, pages, contact forms, users and their information, etc).
Hope it helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change front end Language onlyI’ve never had to do this for any of my sites or client sites, but just by googling a little bit I found this:
Check the first answer. This code that you paste on the functions.php file should, in theory, do the trick.
Before doing it though, you need to go to the backend, go to options, switch the language to the one you want on the frontend only and click Save. This should download it and make it available for use by the snippet of code. Then switch it back to, say, English.Remember to switch ‘ar’ in this line: return ‘ar’; with the ISO languange code for the frontend languange you downloaded. Full list of ISO codes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes. If you don’t find it let me know.
Hope this helps.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: WampServer really slow accessing pages in WordPressHaving used WampServer in the past (I ditched it for Bitnami WordPress Stack: https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress), I recommend checking if you have APC Installed/Enabled.
There’s also another issue that I ran into that’s quite…simple. If you are on a local environment and your theme is referencing online assets like Google Fonts, Bootstrap CDN, etc, sometimes it makes a local site slow down because it’s trying to reach that particular resource on the internet and your connection might not be fast enough. If you are offline this could also cause slowness due to the site trying to reach the online assets anyway and getting “stuck” for a sec.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Remove tagsI don’t really understand WHY p tags are showing there, and I don’t recommend doing this fix as it is quick and dirty (there are always better options than this) but if you know your way around CSS, you could target those two <p> tags specifically (as much specificity as you can, to avoid hiding other stuff that might match the rule) and hide them with display: none.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Images Randomly Take Up Whole PageIt shouldn’t happen because you have max-width set at 100% in the .wp-caption css class.
This class is applied to all image attachments. Assuming you know you way around Chrome’s Developer Console, you need to reproduce this issue and check out what is going on in the Developer Console, specifically inspect the problematic image and see if it has a special class or if it is overriding the max-width rule in any way.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reader can’t access Comments on her Android PhoneI just left a test comment on your latest entry and it works. I did it from a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge phone.
I think you need to contact this reader and ask for more information of what brand/model of device she has, perhaps it’s an old phone with less compatibility or resources.