There is something that can happen when you are logged into your admin area but not experienced by other users and that is when your posts start to return a 404 Error at regular intervals. Most people have experienced this issue when both viewing and editing a post but always when logged in as the admin user. You know the post exists, right! You created it after-all, it was listed along with all of your other posts so why is…
“Say what now??? Briefly?? It’s been like 10 minutes!!!” If you’re reading this then you probably haven’t experienced this issue before and your WordPress site is unavailable… and it’s been a lot longer than a minute. This type of error is not common and tends to appears after a plug-in update has attempted to complete. Thankfully it rarely becomes an issue even when an update fails but when it does it can leave your locked out without a key! Luckily…
At Learning Glue we talk a lot about the advantages of using a child theme for your self hosted WordPress site, and we consider that approach to be best practice for any WordPress site. As we hope you know, one of the most important advantages of using a child theme is that you can update your theme without worrying about losing styles, scripts or other custom configurations. With that in mind, we will assume your site is using a child…
If you ever want to want to change how the social media icons from the Jetpack widget look on your web pages simply add the following code to your styles sheet and replace the comments “Insert your custom styles here” with your own styles. /*Style jetpack social icons*/.jetpack_widget_social_icons ul li {/*Insert your custom styles here*/} Best practice is to use a child theme and this code should be added to your child theme style sheet. For more on child themes…
This is very frustrating but a fairly common issue with WordPress especially when you are logged in as the Admin and working in the admin area of your site. There are number of reasons why this may be happening. Let’s work through these and how to fix them. Permalinks This issue can happen if your .htaccess file was somehow deleted or edited with incorrect data. To fix this you need to do update your permalinks settings: Go to Settings »…
A protocol is a procedure or system of rules – in computer science, a protocol is a set of rules used by computers that are connected together on a network. The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a common method to interconnect computers that form a computer network. It is across this type of network that FTP is used to transfer files from computer to computer.
A plugin (sometimes written as plug-in) is a software program or a collection of software files that can be added or installed to an application to provide additional functionality to that application. In WordPress, plugins allow you to easily modify, customise, and enhance a WordPress site. Instead of changing the core program code of WordPress, you can add functionality with WordPress Plugins. Here is a basic definition. A WordPress Plugin is a program or a set of one or more…
A theme is a collection of files that alter the visual aspect of an application, program or website. In WordPress, a theme is a set of files that provide a visual style and customised functionality to a WordPress site. These file can include template, function and other code files (written in PHP), style-sheets (using CSS), and images files (often JPG and PNG files). A theme often interacts with other WordPress software like plugins which can increase or reduce the available…
A not uncommon issues that many WordPress users experience when updating plugins is an incomplete update that can, at worst, render you site totally inaccessible. The good news is that , more often than not, your site files and database tables are safe so you have not lost any data – your access is restricted by missing plugin files that failed to fully install during the update. If you have auto-update enabled on any of your plugins this issue can…