This week, one server had a LOAD of more than 2500% (around 150 with 6 CPUs), but the CPU load was only around 5%, so this was a sign, that the CPU load was not the cause of the high … Read more →
I’ve written a couple of blog posts related to multisite. But two common issues that might cause problem, I have not yet written about. Missing to redirect the www subdomain When you convert your WordPress installation into a multisite, you … Read more →
I regularly maintain about 40 WordPress websites. Updating plugins and themes can cause issue, but updating core usually goes without any issue. Not so this week on a new website I updated for the first time. After the core update … Read more →
In one of my advent calendar blog posts in 2016 I wrote (in German) about how to create a SVG sprite with SVG symbols using a Gulp script. With Gutenberg becoming a major part of WordPress I have used the … Read more →
Last week I was asked for help on a website project. In this project, the website embeds some audio files into the page. This is a great feature of WordPress making it so easy to embed media files. But some … Read more →
The yearly Global Accessibility Awareness Day is still some weeks away – this year it be celebrated on 20 May 2021 – but some recent discussions made be pick this topic for my next blog post. It’s not just a … Read more →
Earlier this week one website was not responding and showing an error that the connection to the database was not possible. Such an error is usually a sign, that the credentials are invalid. But no changes have been made to … Read more →
In September 2017 I wrote a blog post on how to show tags from private posts in the tags widget. Three weeks ago I got a comment (on the German blog post) if something similar would be possible for comments … Read more →
Recently I was checking the downloads of a plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory. In the “Advanced View” of a plugin you will find a “Downloads Per Day” graph with the numbers from the past 267 days. Let’s take a … Read more →
There are many options to make a WordPress website more secure. For some of those options you might use additional plugins. But there is an easy way to increase the security by setting only some server settings. But before I … Read more →