Website hosting – Bluehost/Layeredtech/Rackspace
My blue host server has become a sluggish lately. The CPU throttling is on more than not and sometimes the webpages take a long time to load or I even get a “database unavailable” error. My...
View Articlersync server backup
How to back up your web server via the terminal This will backup your entire remote server to your local Macintosh computer. rsync –recursive –verbose –archive –progress –stats –size-only –dry-run...
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Be careful of wp-secure plugin
wp-secure plugin has an option to ‘secure your wp’content’ folder. I did this and look what happened to my traffic – it dropped from 6000 hits a day to 600! The reason for this is that blocking...
View ArticlePermanent redirect for moving a website
I just closed down 7.barracks.cl and moved all the articles to wayneconnor.com 1. EXPORT all articles from 7.barracks.cl using wordpress admin back end. 2. IMPORT them all to wayneconnor.com using...
View Articlehow to move wordpress site to new url on the same server.
1. Setup new directory and copy across all old files. 2. Edit functions.php of old site. Add these two lines to the file, immediately after the initial “<?php” line....
View ArticleHuge commentmeta file in wordpress database.
A surprising email: It has come to our attention that your site is using an excessive amount of MySQL resources on your Bluehost account. So some looking into it, the wordpress commentmeta SQL table...
View ArticleHow to secure wordpress
Make sure you have most up to date wordpress change database prefix from wp_ to something else (WSD Security plugin will do this) change default admin username from admin to something else (add new...
View ArticleTruth Allergy
For those of you interested in health issues, I’ve started a little blog here keeping tabs on controversial health issues.
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wp clean up plugin
This plugin a beauty for trimming a bloated akismet database from wordpress. See here my kismet has over 600,000 entries of spam – bloating my wordpress table and slowing my site down. This plugin...
View ArticleWordPress Error 500 when using IP security on htaccess
When I upgraded to the latest php version (Version 7) across all my WordPress sites (which are hosted using bluehost) I encountered a 500 server error when trying to access the WordPress admin page....
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