Solved: WPML product translation Visual tab empty in WooCommerce after update

Visual tab empty and not editable in product translation fields – yes this has happened to me and many others. Here is how I managed to solve it really quickly and get product translation fields back to editable. Install and activate Enable jQuery Migrate Helper plugin After installing the plugin for me the fields appeared […]

Solved: SQL change all products to virtual / not virtual in WooCommerce via phpMyAdmin

Might you need to bulk edit products to assign them all virtual or not virtual the best way is to do it via the database. I had for my customer over 5000 products in WooCommerce all marked “virtual” by mistake from import. Yes, I tried bulk editing tools like WP Sheet Editor and Bulk Table […]

Solved: Fonts not displaying, blocked by CORS policy using child theme

Using free Astra theme, created a child theme, text fonts are not displaying correcly any more but are using some browser fallback fonts instead. CORS error message logged in website console: What is CORS? Cors is short for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS) CORS definition: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is an HTTP-header based mechanism that allows […]

Workaround: Publishing failed. The response is not a valid JSON response in 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 […]

Huge 2GB table “wp_pcachewpr” in WordPress database after site was hacked

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 […]

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Solved: WordPress error (missing MySQL extension, undefined constant) after HostGator PHP upgrade to 7.4

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 […]

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Solved: Enfold theme WooCommerce store message overlapping menu and logo

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 […]

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Solved: POST content-length (of bytes) exceeds the limit (of bytes) in Unknown – the link you followed has expired on WAMP

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 […]