WordPress shows a 404 page when visitor navigate to a non existent page. To redirect visitor to a specific page, say home page when visiting non existent page, edit functions.php file in your themes folder, then add following code to it. function redirect_404_to_page() { if( is_404() ) { header( “Location: https://your-domain.tld/page/” , true, 404); exit; … Read more
I have an old Bitnami WordPress server on the Amazon Lightsail server. Bitnami does not support upgrading the PHP version. The recommended solution is to create a new bitnami WordPress instance and migrate the website to the new lightsail instance. Since this server had many websites configured, I do not want to migrate the websites … Read more
If you lost your WordPress user password, you can use forget password link on the WordPress login screen to reset the password. For any reason, if you were unable to receive the password reset email, you have to reset your password by editing the wp_users table in MySQL Database or by using the WordPress command … Read more
Getting your site to load faster is very important. Bounce rate (visitors leaving your website) on your website increases as load time increases. Many WordPress themes, and plugins add extra javascript/css resources to your page, so each page has to load these resources, making the site slow. It is better to use minimum plugins required. … Read more
To find the version of WordPress, you can check the file wp-includes/version.php Inside the file look for variable $wp_version You can do this with the grep command grep wp_version wp-includes/version.php Using WP CLI You can use WordPress CLI to find the version of WordPress with the command wp core version Back to WordPress
If your WordPress sites shows 404 page when accessing URLs, this is because .htaccess file is missing. WordPress uses .htaccess file to generate SEO-friendly URLs when using Apache or LiteSpeed webserver. To fix the 404 error on WordPress, create a file with the name .htaccess and copy the following content. If WordPress is installed on … Read more
On a WordPress website hosted on a CentOS server, I got the following error on the header of the website. Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection to WordPress.org. … Read more
What is Expires Headers Expires headers are a type of HTTP header that indicates how long until cached copies of site resources expire. Expires headers tell the browsers what resource can be stored and fetched from the browser’s cache or the source itself. Using the expires headers, you maximize the speed of your site by … Read more
On a Bitnami WordPress server, plugin installation/upgrade failed with permission error. The error is because the web server in bitmai servers runs as user daemon. When you upload a file as user bitnami, you need to make sure you set file permission properly so anyone in the group can write. To fix the error, run … Read more
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HyperDB is a WordPress plugin that allows you to use multiple MySQL database servers with large MySQL installations. It is used to WordPress.com to distribute MySQL server load amount multiple MYSQL database servers hosted in different data centers. HyperDB supports Read and write servers (replication) Configurable priority for reading and writing Local and remote datacenters … Read more
Webuzo hosting control panel has the option for selecting web servers Apache or Nginx. On a server using Nginx, after uploading the WordPress site and restoring the database, the website home page worked. When I clicked on any web page, I get a 404 Page not found error. To fix this, you need to add … Read more