🐱💻 Denial-of-Service or DoS attack in short, a DoS attacks tries to create fake traffic to overload your WordPress website, so much so that it becomes unavailable due to hositng/server limits. An extension to DoS is the DDoS attack with stands for Distributed Denial of Service. This one originates from multiple IP addresses. Types of … Read full article →
When using WordPress REST API each request is processed by WordPress and depending on the size of the database and server performance, issues start occurring for high-traffic websites. By using a plugin such as WP REST Cache you can cache the responses of the REST API, making it much faster. Then if you want to … Read full article →
WordPress uses the wp_commentmeta and wp_comments tables to store comments and their data. To delete all comments in WordPress simply empty those tables in the database: To delete all spam comments use: To delete all unapproved comments use: NOTE: In the above commands change wp_ prefix with the table prefix that you are using *(view … Read full article →
MonsterInsights Error: The firewall of your server is blocking outbound calls. Please contact your hosting provider to fix this issue. cURL error 28: Failed to connect to www.google.com port 443 after 1201 ms: Couldn’t connect to server This error is caused by cURL (Client for URLs) – a command line tool that is used to … Read full article →
Figuring out templates that are being used while you are building and developing a custom WordPress website can be problematic. Using the following snippets you can quickly and easily display template name or full path to the file in your wp-admin bar. Display Template name To display just template name add the following to functions.php … Read full article →
Uploaded images are not displaying in the media library: And when image is opened directly it shows error: Error occured while calculating config file: Configuration file was not found (wod-options.json) This error is caused by left-over code in the .htaccess file from an image optimization plugin such as WebpExpress. To fix the issue:
Here are five different methods to create a new WordPress Admin user. In all of the examples below I will use the following username/password combination, so make sure to change it before running any of the commands: username123 change username123 with your username password123 change password123 with your password [email protected] change [email protected] with your email … Read full article →
Recently I was migrating a website from GoDaddy shared hosting using WP-CLI and noticed the PHP version in cli was outdated. Here is how to install WP-CLI and set custom PHP version for the cli. Setup WP-CLI To download WP cli: To run it use php wp-cli.phar To make it easier to call We’ll rename … Read full article →
I’ve been a WordPress user for over a decade and back at the beginning of my first WP blog (around 2010), I did a comparison between at the time most popular WordPress Caching plugins, and various caching methods: APC, XCache, and eAccelerator. Most of those plugins are long dead but some of their functions still … Read full article →
WordPress has many built-in functions that can help you debug. They can be activated by editing them in the wp-config.php file: 1. Enable debug mode By default Debug mode is disabled in WordPress, so you need to enable it by editing the wp-config.php file and changing the value from define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, false ); to define( … Read full article →