WordPress – Wayne Connor

WordPress Error 500 when using IP security on htaccess

Posted on: August 26, 2019

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 […]

wp clean up plugin

Posted on: March 2, 2014August 2, 2016

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 […]

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Truth Allergy

Posted on: November 16, 2013February 4, 2017

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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How to secure wordpress

Posted on: August 19, 2013August 2, 2016

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 […]

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Huge commentmeta file in wordpress database.

Posted on: June 25, 2013August 2, 2016

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 […]

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how to move wordpress site to new url on the same server.

Posted on: February 3, 2013August 2, 2016

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” […]

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Permanent redirect for moving a website

Posted on: August 29, 2012August 2, 2016

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 […]

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Be careful of wp-secure plugin

Posted on: February 10, 2012August 2, 2016

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 […]

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Website hosting – Bluehost/Layeredtech/Rackspace

Posted on: January 11, 2012August 2, 2016

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 […]

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rsync server backup

Posted on: September 30, 2011August 2, 2016

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 […]

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remove ds-store files from zip file

Posted on: June 25, 2011February 4, 2017

If you are trying to upload theme to WordPress.org and are getting the following error: ds_store Hidden Files or Folders found Here is an app that will remove […]

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Override WordPress Default Attachment “Link to” Setting

Posted on: May 20, 2011August 2, 2016

http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options.php via Override WordPress Default Attachment “Link to” Setting.

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WordPress theme

Posted on: May 11, 2011August 2, 2016

WordPress is a blogging platform. I wrote a theme for it called Slidingdoor which I use on dubbo.org and currently it’s the most popular theme on the WordPress […]

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