We run more than a dozen sites with nearly all of the configured the same way but one of our sites kept erroring out with “WordPress JetPack Error Updating Settings – FetchNetworkError” when we were trying to change settings in JetPack. We suspect this error is related to our use Read more
There are several WordPress plugins that will break your website if they are disabled. Once disabled, you are likely in a catch-22 situation in that you cannot activate them because the site is broken and the site is broken because you cannot activate them. In our case, we took down Read more
If your WordPress site displays an error like: Warning: require(/home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-includes/load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-settings.php on line 19 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required ‘/home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-includes/load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5_6/lib/php’) in /home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-settings.php on line 19 the problem is likely that your WordPress installation is corrupt. I have only seen this occur with failed automatic Read more
If you see FAILED TO CONNECT TO MYSQL – BAD HANDSHAKE in MySQL Workbench, your database is likely unsupported. MySQL Workbench only supports MySQL databases version 5.1 and newer. Fortunately there is an easy way around this. Use the old MYSQL ADMINISTRATOR tool as shown below. In my case I Read more
MySQL Administrator has been replaced with MySQL Workbench but many people still the Administrator and if you are one of them and find that the BACKUP or RESTORE options are greyed out, you need to either : Click the NEW PROJECT button at the bottom middle of the Window and Read more
If you have considered writing something online in the last decade, you have likely considered WordPress. If not, you should skim through our short article: Which Content Management Tools Should I Use, WordPress, Joomla, Drupla, Shopify…? Below is a list of the slightly more obvious things you should consider when selecting Read more
If you have considered writing on the web in the last decade you will know that good old fashioned .HTML and .ASP editors have died because they only built web pages. A web site, however, is much more than just pages of content. There are: menus formatting advertising e-commerce feedback Read more
If you have recently upgraded to WordPress 5 you will know that there is a new editor for creating posts and pages. This new editor is named after the inventor of the printing press “Gutenberg” and while it has a fresh interface, it also leaves much to be desired. I Read more
We have just started evaluating CloudFlare but were unable to locate a simple setup instructions. Below is our 12 minute video explaining: What CloudFlare does How to get it setup in just 5 minutes on WordPress What extra things (performance tweaking, SSL…) you will likely want to change TOP 5 Read more
We recently migrated a dozen WordPress sites from one GoDaddy host to another GoDaddy host and then to a totally different host named InMotion.com. As a result we had to put a lot of time and effort into learning efficient migration strategies. We moves sites completely manually and using tools. Below Read more
If you are running a default WordPress installation on IIS you will find that you can upload files into the MEDIA LIBRARY without any problem but if you try to download those files, you will see a 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR or a 500.50 URL REWRITE MODULE ERROR (depending on Read more
If you are running WordPress on your own IIS server (i.e. Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10), you may find that the default 2MB size limit for media is very difficult to change following instructions for those that have WordPress installed on hosted sites. This short video provides the simple Read more
A default install of IIS on Server 2008, 2012 or 2016 does support URL rewriting the way WordPress expects. This means that if you change the PERMALINK structure from the default (and ugly and SEO killing) page ID so your URLs look like: http://www.URTech.ca/?page_id=4 . If you do change the Read more
If you have to change text or update links in many of your WordPress pages, there is a simple solution with BETTER SEARCH REPLACE. We recently removed a YouTube video player that required all of our YouTube links to be prefixed with httpv:// (not the ‘V’) . The plug-in is Read more
This video shows you how to install WordPress on Server 2016 or Windows 10 in just 5 minutes using Microsoft’s amazing Web Platform Installer. You can source the Web Platform Installer directly from Microsoft HERE.
If you are having unexplained performance problems with your WordPress Site and you have already tried: disabling ALL your plug-ins – 99% of the time Add-In’s) are the problem with WordPress sites installing a AntiVirus and running a scan on the site – we strongly recommend the free version of Read more