When WordPress overwrites your .htaccess file, custom redirect rules, security headers, and caching configuration disappear without warning. The fix depends on your hosting environment and how much control you need. TL;DR — three methods stop WordPress from overwriting .htaccess reliably. Set file permissions to read-only (444) for a hard lock that blocks WordPress, plugins, and … Continue reading “Stop WordPress from Overwriting .htaccess File”
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How to Fix Changes that aren’t Visible on your WordPress Live Site
When you update your WordPress site, you expect to see your changes reflected immediately. However, there are times when updates, such as new posts, page edits, or design adjustments, need to not appear on the live site. This common issue can be frustrating and may slow your website’s functionality. In most cases, it’s due to … Continue reading “How to Fix Changes that aren’t Visible on your WordPress Live Site”
Fix Broken WordPress Forms Easily
Have you ever filled out a form on a website, hit "submit," and nothing happened? You’re not alone if you’re managing a WordPress website and your form is unresponsive. Forms are crucial for capturing leads, handling customer service requests, and engaging with visitors. When they don’t work, your site’s effectiveness can suffer. Today, we’ll discuss … Continue reading “Fix Broken WordPress Forms Easily”
How to Speed up And Cache Your WordPress Site – Ultimate Guide
In this guide, I’ll show you how to speed up your WordPress website tremendously by setting up a few tools. Learn how to speed up your website loading times by a factor 5 or more. Let’s go for a better user experience and improved search engine rankings 💪 Lowering your site page load and increasing … Continue reading “How to Speed up And Cache Your WordPress Site – Ultimate Guide”
How to Secure your WordPress Website – Full Guide for WordPress Security
Your website looks great, you have outstanding traffic, and you are overall satisfied. However, all of this is worthless if your website is hacked, and you lose content, customers, and access to your site. To prevent this from happening, I’ve written this comprehensive security concept for your WordPress website. I’ve worked through the entire article … Continue reading “How to Secure your WordPress Website – Full Guide for WordPress Security”
MySQL Query: How to Delete all WooCommerce Orders
When managing a WooCommerce site, especially in a development or staging environment, there may be times when you need to delete all orders. This could be to refresh the database during testing or before syncing data from a live environment. Using MySQL to delete orders is efficient and direct but should be handled with care … Continue reading “MySQL Query: How to Delete all WooCommerce Orders”
Add WordPress SSL and Move from HTTP to HTTPS
If your WordPress site lacks an SSL certificate, all visitors will get the message “site not secure.” At worst, your visitors will immediately leave your website at this point and look somewhere else. In this article, we’re moving your WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS to get better search results and protect your visitors’ data … Continue reading “Add WordPress SSL and Move from HTTP to HTTPS”
How to Fix the Yoast SEO Error: “something has gone wrong and we couldn’t complete the optimization of your SEO data”
TL;DR: The Yoast SEO "Something has gone wrong" error fires when Yoast’s background SEO-data rebuild fails — most often due to a JavaScript conflict or stale database records in the indexables table. Resetting Yoast’s indexed-data tables and rerunning the optimizer resolves the error in the majority of cases. If the problem persists, the root cause … Continue reading “How to Fix the Yoast SEO Error: “something has gone wrong and we couldn’t complete the optimization of your SEO data””
How to Change WordPress Table Prefix of mySQL Database
Changing the WordPress table prefix in your MySQL database enhances security by reducing the risk of SQL injection attacks targeting default table names. Here’s how you can do it safely and efficiently. Step 1: Back Up Your Database Back up your website before making any changes to ensure you can quickly restore it if something … Continue reading “How to Change WordPress Table Prefix of mySQL Database”
Where Are WooCommerce Products Stored In The WordPress Database?
TL;DR: WooCommerce stores all products as custom post types in wp_posts, with attributes and meta (price, SKU, stock) in wp_postmeta. Categories, tags, and product attributes live in the wp_terms family of tables. Visibility and product type flags are stored as post meta keys. Sometimes you add new WooCommerce products on your staging site and just … Continue reading “Where Are WooCommerce Products Stored In The WordPress Database?”