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Tips and Tricks on WordPress usage and development. I am very passionate about WordPress, but it doesn’t work just by itself – it needs a rich environment to live and breathe in.

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How to show a list of all articles in WordPress

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There’s a handy function in WordPress called wp_get_archives(). With it we can create a lot of useful output with just a few lines of code. To list all articles ever published on a site, we can do this: This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what … Read more

How to fix the “Occasional White Screen of Death” Error in WordPress

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In this video I’ll show you how to fix an odd phenomenon I’d like to call “The Occasional White Screen of Death”. Here’s what happened:

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How to disable JetPack nag messages in the WordPress Admin interface

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I really like WordPress, and I really like JetPack. I use the plugin on many client websites, who usually have their own WordPress.com  account, which is necessary to enable the plugin successfully. Most of them however choose not to sign up for a payment plan, which as of 2017 leads to (now rather annoyingly frequent) … Read more

How to install a free SSL Certificate in Plesk Onyx

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In this episode I’ll explain how to add a free SSL Certificate for web traffic in Plesk Onyx. First we’ll enable the Let’s Encrypt extension in Plesk, then we’ll create the certificate and prepare our subscription for SSL traffic. And finally, we’ll tweak two values in the WordPress database so that all requests will be … Read more

Upgrade Trouble: when WordPress is asking for FTP details, but there’s no FTP server on your system

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I was working on a CentOS 7 server the other day that had a LAMP stack installed. It was used to host only a single instance of WordPress. Upgrading themes and plugins from the admin interface worked fine, but curiously, WordPress core upgrades did not. Instead, WordPress was asking for FTP details every time, which also … Read more

P2 Header Ad – Version 1.6 released

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I’ve just released a new version of my P2 Header Ad plugin! It fixes a few issues I’ve come across in debug mode: styles are now loaded via wp_enqueue_scripts hook fixed a debug warning that assumed a constant rather than a value verified compatibility with WordPress 4.5 There’s still a lone warning that appears in … Read more