If the amount of spam you get is out of control from your WordPress-based website, blocking access based on the country might be a way to try next, on top of the regular ReCaptcha method. IP2Location Country Blocker is a free WordPress plugin that lets you block unwanted traffic from […]
I discovered many blank draft posts appeared on one of the websites I managed. I firstly freaked out and thought the site might have got hacked but after a few searching and troubleshooting digging, I noticed that it could be just one of the Dashboard widgets, namely Quick Draft or […]
I was setting up a new WordPress website the other day and encountered a dead loop redirection when trying to log into the backend dashboard /wp-admin/. Scratching my head for a while until I realized that the 8 keys and salt values in the wp-config.php file were set up correctly. […]
For websites selling age-restricted products, such as alcohol, cannabis, or smoking-related products, age verification is required for visitors before entering the website. A process is called Age Gate. In WordPress, it could be achieved easily by implementing an Age Gate plugin and there are tons of them available, mostly free […]
Migrating a WordPress website from one host to another involves quite a few technical steps and could be a daunting job if you don’t know how to handle them. Migrate Guru, developed by BlogVault, is a fully-automated WordPress plugin that is aiming to be the easiest, fastest and most reliable […]
SSL is used to be a luxurious security component for the big companies. Not anymore, thanks to the low cost or even free SSL certificate issued by the trusted commercial Certificate Authority (CA) such as Let’s Encrypt. With the recent recommendation by Google, more and more websites, big or small, are […]
phpMyAdmin is a GUI-based web app to manage your MySQL databases. It’s a very powerful tool to have but it’s also an unnecessary component that you don’t need to use if you are familiar with MySQL basic commands. What’s better, since it’s easy to put on and remove you can […]
I have got this error when trying to crop the images during the process setting up the logo. There has been an error cropping your image The reason behind this is because it’s missing the PHP Graphic library. Since it’s on a VPS server I probably forgot to install it […]
When you stumbled upon a beautifully designed WordPress website, have you ever wondered what theme and plugins it uses to make such impressive site? I am not sure if you did but I do, many times. Now with this tool’s help, I can easily find the answer that keeps me […]
The default value set up in PHP limits the maximum upload file size to 2 MB. Therefore, a new WordPress powered website in VPS will have the same limit that maximizes the upload file size to 2 MB, like below when you were trying to upload a file to Media […]