top 5 wp backup plugins - Top 5 WordPress Backup plugins

Top 5 WordPress Backup plugins

Website backups are critical for WordPress users who want to build a website on their own.Backing up the site on a regular basis can help us not only save the prior data, but also restore it quickly in the event of technical issues, website attacks, and other problems. “Whew! Glad I didn’t waste my time … Read full article →

WordPress Backup Plugins Benchmark - WordPress Backup Plugins Benchmark

WordPress Backup Plugins Benchmark

I’ve tested the most used WordPress backup plugins and compared their compression level and backup&restore speed. The website on which I performed the tests is a WP blog (pcx3.com) that has 2.7 GB in files and database size is 130.8 MB Tested plugins: New plugins might be added later on. 🙂 Spoiler alert – the … Read full article →

curl error 60 - How to fix curl error 60: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired error ✅

How to fix curl error 60: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired error ✅

From September 30, 2021, WordPress websites that use Let’s Encrypt certificates are having issues with HTTP API requests. For example, here is an example that will cause this error: $res = wp_remote_get( ‘https://abcdef.com/’ ); if( is_wp_error( $res ) ){ echo $res->get_error_message(); } the error message: cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired What causes this error? … Read full article →

Building a simple WordPress shortcode to output Website information - Building a simple WordPress shortcode to output Website information

Building a simple WordPress shortcode to output Website information

Here is a simple WordPress plugin that uses the [site] shortcode to display the website name: It uses the get_bloginfo() function to retrieve website information, and do_shortcode() function to display the information in the WordPress post or page. We can use get_bloginfo() function to also display additional information such as URL, WordPress version, etc. Here … Read full article →

2 - Use mysql2date  to convert date string obtained from the database into a readable date

Use mysql2date to convert date string obtained from the database into a readable date

Instruction: Parameter PARAMETER TYPE DESCRIPTION DEFAULT REQUIRED $format string Output can be PHP date format or Unix timestamp. no yes $date string mysql2date() only recognizes “Ymd H:i:s” format, so the original timestamp string needs to be converted to this format. no yes $translate boolean If true, the specified date and format string will be passed … Read full article →

Looks like somethings gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds, and then try again.

⚠️ Looks like something’s gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds, and then try again.

When editing the menu in customizer the changes failed to save with the error message: Looks like something’s gone wrong. Wait a couple seconds, and then try again. And when inspecting the page the following error appears: POST http://plugins.club/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 403 (Forbidden) The 403 error is caused by something blocking access to the file such as … Read full article →

WordPress Caching Plugins Compared - WordPress Caching Plugins Comparisons

WordPress Caching Plugins Comparisons

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 →