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Today sad news popped in my inbox and to support the news the “site security by gravityscan” badge has disappeared from the bottom of the site. They are saying in their e-mail (see below) that they didn’t reach the required mass of users. Maybe there is a bigger problem there – a lot of WordPress […]
Contact Form 7 comes in handy as a really simple but functional contact form plugin for WordPress. There may be an issue for some users that want to activate the autoreply or autoresponder e-mail that will be sent to the customer as a notification about receiving the sent query through the mail form, but the […]
When I hit update on my WordPress 4.7.4 to update to 4.8 it almost instantly returned me an error 500 – Internal Server Error when trying to access WordPress admin area (wp-admin). This led me to a troubleshooting procedure and a lot of Googling (that didn’t help). How did I solve it? Internal Server Error […]
Ever since moving from Joomla! to WordPress I have been missing one specific feature – ability to make widgets appear on only certain pages. Now I have accidentally discovered that visibility button has appeared in my widgets list. How did it happen? Was it a result of an update? No. I have Jetpack installed. Jetpack […]
I needed to translate the Read more text in Divi theme blog module. It didn’t translate automatically, so WordPress translations aren’t at fault and needed to see into Divi translations. I was using Polylang as the best free WordPress translation plugin. How to translate read more in blog module (and other Divi texts, like Submit […]
WordPress admins can get annoyed or distracted if they have plugins (usually every WordPress site done for a client has at least 5 plugins) and all the plugins time to time start notifying that they need to be updated. This can lead to situations where untested plugins or WordPress core will be updated by the […]
After installing WordFence plugin and setting up the firewall I experienced an interesting issue. All the images on the website disappeared and showed me the broken image icon. When right clicking on the broken image icon and selecting view image in new tab, the result was Internal server error 500, not the image. How did […]
Had an interesting issue on a client WordPress site today. When trying to change the site title from Settings -> General after hitting the Save button the title changed back to what it was, didn’t save my newly inserted title. So looking around and investigating this oddity, finally I concluded that WPML was guilty. It […]
Funny that there is no option in WooCommerce to edit a primary option – the number of products displayed on a category or a shop page. In the end of year 2016 you need to hack the code to be able to alter the number of products that are displayed in a WooCommerce product list […]
You need to make the entry of some fields in WooCommerce registration non-required or optional. Maybe you even want to hide some fields from displaying at all to make things clearer and simplier. I know I did, I didn’t need all the fields available so I hid them. What happened when I tried to submit […]