How to Migrate a WordPress Site In this post I’ll be talking about how to migrate a WordPress site. I’ll be covering how to migrate a WordPress site from one hosting account to another, using the cPanel hosting platform. This is essentially copying a WordPress installation from one hosting provider to another. Although I’ve focussed […]
How to change the address of a wordpress site. How to change the address of a wordpress site. Or as it’s sometimes referred to, how to change the URL of a WordPress site. There are a few reasons why you might need to know how to change the address of a wordpress site: There are
How To Enable WordPress Debugging (wp-debug). How to enable WordPress debugging. In this guide I’ll be covering what WordPress debugging is (or wp-debug as it’s sometimes referred to), why you might want to enable WordPress debugging, and how to enable WordPress’ debugging mode. You can click here find out how to enable WordPress debugging if
WordPress all pages not found except homepage. WordPress all pages not found except for home page. In this post I’ll cover what causes this problem, why it happens, and how to fix the all pages not found except homepage problem. If you have this problem, you’ll see a 404 message or a “page not found”
Error Establishing Database connection WordPress Error establishing database connection when using WordPress, can be encountered if your WordPress based site can’t connect to the database used by your site. WordPress’ own advice about this is quite minimal, as it’s not really a WordPress centric issue, it’s more related to the underlying services (specifically the database) and
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WordPress There Has Been a Critical Error or White page of Death WordPress there has been a critical error or white page of death. In this post I’ll be covering what you’ll see when encountering the “there has been a critical error on your website” or the WordPress white screen of death, what causes these
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500 Internal server error WordPress. 500 Internal server error WordPress. In this post I’ll be talking about what causes a server 500 error, and how to address this when you’re using WordPress. The main thing to bear in mind with a server 500 error is that this is an error generated by the web server
How to fix DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN How to fix DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN. In this post I’ll be talking about what this error means, what causes this error to be displayed, how to diagnose this problem, and how to fix DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN. What you’ll see when the DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN problem occurs. When you’re affected by this problem you’ll see either a screen
An Accidental WordPress Experiment. Last week, I accidentally did an experiment with my WordPress site (yes, this one). The results of the experiment that I accidentally found that I’d done, were a bit surprising. I’ve also been searching for related information on the internet to see if anyone else had experienced a similar kind of
Boris Johnson’s Website Comments on his Tenure. Even Boris Johnson’s website doesn’t like him. It turns out that even Boris Johnson’s website doesn’t like him, and feels strongly enough about this to error in a suitable fashion. An invalid response and a protocol error (just the one?) seems a suitably apt way for a piece
heroes of the internet part one, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. Heroes of the internet part one: Although it sounds like something out of a steampunk based parallel universe, the earliest computers ran on handles and cogs, and were conceived in a time before electricity, microchips and Pong… and arguably Christianity. Charles Babbage and his
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Heroes of the Internet Part Two: Alan Turing. In the first half of the twentieth century, back when doctors still precribed cigarettes, is really when the fundamental ideas of modern day computing first began to emerge. It was during this time that a computer model was described that wasn’t limited to specific mathematical tasks, it
Heroes of the internet part 3: The US Military Much as it pains me to type it, the US Military play a key part in the history of the internet. Why? Because they actually INVENTED THE INTERNET… and one of the first Turing complete computers. I guess that brings a whole new meaning to “WAR,
Heroes of the Internet Part 4: Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955) is an Enhlish computer scientist that’s credited with being the inventor of the World Wide Web (not the internet, the US Military effectively invented the internet). It might also be a bit of a stretch to say that Tim Berners-Lee invented