💡 The wp-admin folder contains administrative files that power the WordPress dashboard.
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Back in 2010 when I was starting my web development journey, having a website was expensive, especially on a high-school student budget. I had plenty of dumb ideas, and no money to realize all of them (thank God 🙏). So I was looking for shortcuts to save on a domain name and hosting. I will … Read more
If you want to hide your WordPress site from search engines, you can use the “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” option in the “Reading Settings” page of your WordPress dashboard. To access this option, follow these steps: This will add a “noindex” directive to your site’s pages, which tells search engines not to … Read more
To check if a plugin is active in WordPress, you can use if ( is_plugin_active( ‘plugin-directory/plugin-file.php’ ) ) { if ( is_plugin_active( ‘akismet/akismet.php’ ) ) { // plugin is active } else { // plugin is inactive } You can also use the get_plugins() function to retrieve all the plugins installed on the site and … Read more
When installing new plugins the error is displayed: Installation failed: Could not create directory. How to fix the Installation failed: Could not create directory. error OPTION 1: Change File permissions This error usually occurs because WordPress doesn’t have writing permissions for the folder. To make sure this is the case, navigate to Tools > Site … Read more
The error indicates that a WordPress plugin or theme is requesting the “wp_filesize” function but the WordPress core is either corrupted or outdated and does not have that function yet. Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function “wp_filesize” in /wp-admin/includes/image.php:249 WordPress 6.0 introduced the wp_filesize() function which should be used in favor of PHP’s filesize(). If … Read more
Kinsta has a list of Banned plugins that they don’t allow to be used on their hosting. The complete list of plugins can be viewed here: https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/banned-plugins/ But even after you migrate your WordPress website from Kinsta to another hosting provider, you are left with this annoying Banned Why? message on some plugins. To get … Read more
A locale is the translation language code used in WordPress that usually consists of a combination of language code and country code, combined with an underscore, for example en_AU or en_GB. Here is a complete and UPDATED List of All WordPress Language Locales 🏳️🌈 This page displays the market share (in %) for each locale (Language code) that WordPress websites are … Read more
This is one of the most-asked questions that I get emailed from people that read some posts from my Types of WordPress Malware Attacks and What They Do series. 99% of the time website owners are the last ones to find out that their WordPress websites are hacked, after visitors, Google, website scanners, and their … Read more
WordPress website was broken and inside the error_log file the following error was repeatedly printed: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_check_php_mysql_versions() This fatal error indicates that WordPress was unable to check server configuration: PHP and MySQL versions. In 99% of the time, the error is caused by missing or modified WP core … Read more
Even when the user name and password are typed correctly, WordPress will sometimes refresh the page and redirect the user or administrator back to the login screen. In this article, you will learn how to fix WordPress admin login page refreshing and redirecting issues. The WordPress login page redirecting back to the login page problem can occur … Read more