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Envira Gallery is a very widely used gallery plugin for WordPress. All of a sudden one customer had the close button missing when clicked on the thumbnail and image opened in lightbox. No way to close, only refresh page or go back to get the image in lightbox away from screen. To further add, WordPress […]
All of a sudden my website is displaying this horrible red message whenever I try to publish an article: Publishing failed. The response is not a valid JSON response in WordPress. I am writing using the Gutenberg editor. What I tried and didn’t help Update WordPress to latest 5.7.1 Update all Plug-ins to their latest […]
A website was blocked by webhosting because it had been compromised. It contained web shells and a lot of activity was being performed on it by crooks. wp_pcachewpr table in database with size over 2GB was one of the symptoms. When the owner contacted me and I started to clean the site I saw a […]
PHP version needs to be updated everywhere. Constantly. It’s a never ending process. When I did it in my WordPress site at HostGator cPanel, I got an error about a missing MySQL extension. Here’s how I solved it. I did a major shift from PHP 5.6 to 7.4. And immediately my site broke and throw […]
Using Enfold theme one may stumble upon an issue with the store message of WooCommerce overlapping menu and logo partially. Annoying and could have been avoided if the theme were designed more properly. When looking at how the store message is propagated to the top of the page, you will discover its code actually is […]
I discovered a huge table in a customer WordPress when performing a backup with Duplicator before starting to update the site and plugins. Database was huge and boasted a hundred-thousand-row table named prefix_+ icl_string_pages. What the heck and phuck? So but it seems that it was not a new topic. Many have already faced this […]
I am using Divi theme (for many of my projects). In it if for some case you would use the standard page layout with its sidebar, you will likely use widgets on the sidebar. If you happen to be like me, that you would like to display latest news in the WordPress latest news widget […]
When running your WordPress on WAMP you might stumble upon on a PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of [some number] of bytes exceeds the limit of [some number] bytes in Unknown on line 0 when uploading media, installing plugins or themes to your locally installed WordPress. Of course it might seem like something terrible has happened […]
When you have chosen to run your WordPress installation let’s say for development purposes locally in your PC on WAMPserver (that is Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) you might run into issues when trying to upload bigger media or install plugins using the .zip file upload method. I personally tried to install Divi theme and Divi […]
When using the visual builder in Oxigeno theme there are 4 and 6 columns per row available, for example. But not 5. So when you have for example 5 core values your company represents and you want to highlight them on your homepage each one in a column in a row you need a workaround. […]