Adding a Favicon in WordPress
To add a favicon in WordPress these days is way easier than it used to be. You used to have to upload the file to the webroot of your website’s server and then added the necessary code to load the favicon in your header. For that your theme needed to have a specific line of code […]
Slider Revolution Slide could not be loaded – Possible Fix
Recently I updated my main slideshow on the homepage. I use Slider Revolution. It is awesome and goes well with the theme I use. For most themes I use really. It is a very versatile slider plugin. But this time around I bumped into an issue I did not see until my CDN loaded the new […]
Create WordPress Database using MySQL Client
Every now and then I need to create a MySQL or MariaDB database from the command line using the MySQL Client. And I tend to forget exactly what commands to run. Lots of things to remember as a web developer. That is why I created loads of gists at Github. Unfortunately their search is not […]
Converting Japanese Character Sets
A client of mine – Kyoko Inatome – who writes both in English and Japanese, had an issue with the Japanese characters (letters). She had saved the database language differently earlier. Now things no longer worked as it should and all the Japanese had become gibberish. The Japanese Character Sets needed to be converted to be […]
WP CLI Call to undefined function apply_filters()
Doing a BackupBuddy backup from the commandline using WP CLI on a GoDaddy server the other day I ran into a fatal error. A WP CLI Call to undefined function apply_filters() error to be precise. It did not allow me to backup from the command line at all. The site was running fine. Anyways, the […]
WordPress – Simply Good for Business
In this blog post I am going to show you why WordPress is such a great platform for content creation online. WordPress is simply good for business for many reasons and though some may always be partially subjective or just subjective please just bear with me. Twenty Five Percent of the Web Can’t Be Wrong […]
Download failed. Failed to write request to temporary file
Just had an issue with updating all plugins on a Dreamhost VPS. None would update. All plugins showed this error when I tried to update them: Download failed. Failed to write request to temporary file. A bad start of my morning. Fortunately Dreamhost has great live chat any time of the day and they confirmed […]
BackupBuddy Wordfence Conflict
Had a BackupBuddy Wordfence conflict the other day. I noticed in the BackupBuddy logs that BackupBuddy failed to make a backup as it tried to backup the Wordfence tmp file while that was being used by Wordfence. And therefore it failed. Calling BackupBuddy.. I contacted BackBuddy support. They responded quite quickly as they always do. Love that […]
WordPress Site Migration – Case study
I have taken care of a lot of WordPress site migrations or movals over the years. A WordPress Site Migration is therefore nothing new to me. People move their website because they get more traffic, need more flexibility or because they are unhappy with their hosting provider. Or all of the above of course. I […]
Jetpack and WPML Do not Play Well Together
There are some nagging Jetpack WPML issues, really. Been using Jetpack for many things, but stats and auto posting to social media are one of my favorites. For translating and managing my bilingual site I have been using WPML. The best one of its kind. Unfortunately the two do not work well together. This in […]