One of the more daunting things I had to do early on in learning WordPress was figuring out how to use FTP for WordPress file editing. Looking back at it from the perspective of “I’ve done this a million times now” it seems simple. That wasn’t the case starting out though! Many otherwise great tutorials […]
Fixing the 500 Internal Server Error in WordPress
You’ve broken your website again, haven’t you? The dreaded 500 Internal Server Error is one of the most common “omg I’ve broken everything” type errors in WordPress. This can be an incredibly annoying error to experience and the cause of site downtime you just can’t afford. So, what can you do about it? We’re about […]
How to Get the Best Out of Your Support Experience
I read an article by Chris Lema recently about how to write a support request that won’t get ignored. It was a great read and got me thinking; I’ll link it for you at the end of this article. In it though, he details three ways to get your support ticket largely ignored, and three […]
How to make a WordPress plugin you use, better
Perhaps categorizing this as a tutorial is a little misleading. I’m offering no code snippets or any way of adding functionality to you current site. What I’m offering is a chance for you to make the plugins you already use a little more stable and perhaps even a little more robust. Submit support requests Am […]
Fix 404 Page Not Found error on new custom post types
So you’ve created a custom post type with a custom slug and you’ve added some content and viewed the post only to find a 404 Page Not Found Error page. This is because although you registered your new post type WordPress doesn’t know how to handle it yet. Simply go to settings>permalinks and choose a […]