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WordPress stuck in maintenance mode

The site shows one dry sentence saying it is “briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”, and it will not go away. This happens when an update is interrupted halfway: WordPress put…

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WordPress or a static website: which is simpler, safer and faster

If the site changes rarely and has only a few pages, a static site is the simplest, the safest and the fastest. If it changes often, or is edited by…

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WordPress login redirect loop: the causes, in order

You type the username and password, WordPress does not complain, and it shows the sign-in screen again. Or the browser gives up with “too many redirects”. This is the login…

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Stopping spam comments in WordPress

If your blog has comments open, sooner or later it fills up with offers for watches, links to doubtful sites and sentences that make no sense. Whoever wrote them is…

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Turning on WordPress debug mode safely: WP_DEBUG and the log

The short answer: when the site shows a white page or a “critical error” without saying why, debug mode makes WordPress write the error to a file. You switch it…

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The WordPress password reset e-mail does not arrive

The short answer: you pressed “Lost your password?” and the e-mail does not appear. Almost always it is one of three cases: it is in spam, the user’s address is…

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Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page in WordPress: the causes

The short answer: you log in to the dashboard as an administrator and, on opening a page, WordPress says “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page”. It is…

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WordPress or a drag-and-drop website builder: what you gain and what you give up

Pick the builder if you want the site online quickly and with no upkeep; pick WordPress if you want room to grow and to own everything. The difference is not…

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Moving from WordPress.com to your own hosting: what you can take with you

The short answer: WordPress.com is a service where the site lives on another company’s servers; the WordPress you install on your hosting is the same program, but the site is…

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WP-CLI over SSH: updating and fixing WordPress from the command line

The short answer: WP-CLI is WordPress on the command line. Instead of opening the dashboard and clicking, you type wp plugin update --all and it is done. On our hosting…