Tag: Wordpress
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WordPress: Site not Secure despite SSL Certificate
I’ve recently migrated all my sites to use SSL (I know, it’s long overdue) and despite the SSL-Certificates being valid and working, Chrome and Firefox would show my sites as “not secure”. (No padlock icon.) After some digging, I discovered that WordPress really doesn’t play very nicely with SSL. Lots of themes, plugins, etc will […]
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Blogger/Blogspot can’t detect WordPress RSS feed
So I just had an interesting problem where a Blogger/Blogspot blog I help maintain couldn’t detect the RSS feed of a WordPress blog I help maintain. The error message was “Could not detect a feed for this URL”. It turns out the problem was two-fold. First: One of the files in the WordPress theme added […]
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WordPress Images Not Showing
Another odd problem I had when migrating a WordPress blog to a new server is that some images would not display. It wasn’t that no image were showing; only some did not display. I have not found the root cause, but a solution. It turns out that something happened to the thumbnails, i.e. resized versions […]
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WordPress Redirect Loop
I’m currently in the process of migrating WordPress to a new server, and I made a somewhat silly mistake. Basically, after setting up my virtualhost, wordpress, etc I ran into a redirect loop, where the site would always redirect from the actual name of my blog (“example.com”) to a signup page, and the signup page […]
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How to Disable WordPress “Prove your Humanity” captcha code question
A while back, WordPress introduced an annoying little feature, where you have to solve a simple math question in order to log in to your site: I ignored this for a while, but decided it was too much of a hassle wile offering no real benefit. However, finding a way to disable it is not […]
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Adding Blog as a Menu Item in WordPress
On my personal blog, I set the main page to a static page. However, I also wanted a menu item to the blog posts. There was nothing in the Menu editor, but the solution is quite easy if you know how. Create and publish an empty page. I called mine “Blog”. In (Dashboard) -> Settings […]
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WordPress: Images not displaying, Redirects not working
Moved my WordPress installation to a new server. I kept all paths etc intact, copied my VirtualHost and permissions were good, so I was at first surprised when my images didn’t show and redirects didn’t work. The cause was quickly found, however; it seems my old install had different default settings hidden somewhere in the […]
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WordPress Error “please fill the required fields (name, email).”
I have been having a problem with one of my WordPress blogs that had me stumped: Whenever I would comment on it, being logged in as my WordPress user, I would get the error message: “please fill the required fields (name, email).” This started happening out of nowhere, without any connection to an update as […]
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WordPress Image Scaling Incorrect
I just noticed that WordPress is not resizing images correctly: It would appear correct in the blog itself, but the IMG SRC tag would link to the original, unscaled image: This meant that the image was downloaded at the maximum size and scaled on the client side. I never really noticed this because modern PC’s […]
