A couple of weeks after I launched a new blog, I noticed four ‘core’ files named core.2801, core.4065 etc. in its directories. The files seemed harmless, but had rather large size (several megabytes). What are core dump files? A quick Google search turned up a lot of complicated pages explaining the problem, but none that … Read more
Has your “Allow Comments” check box gone away for some reason? You can go to “screen options” near the top right of the “edit post” or “edit page” page. There are several options there, but the “discussion” one will bring your check box to allow comments or not. You can also see in under “All … Read more
Some idiots are always trying to brute force all WordPress pages by attempting to login as “admin.” Rather than reinvent the wheel, Immotion explains it pretty well: What is a Brute Force Attack? One of the methods to gain information -primarily LOG-IN information – is by using a method called BRUTE FORCE attack. Basically, as … Read more
Both Youtube and Google will let you share it or embed the code which gives you a link like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xb8ILonoI If you do not want it to start at the beginning, you can add #t=XmYs to the end. Where X = minutes and Y = seconds. If I wanted to start the above video … Read more
After making a slight change under GENERAL – SETTINGS, my site crashed.
I removed the “wp” from WordPress Address (URL) and after updating, the site crashed. Not cool. There are a few ways to fix it, but the easiest way if you have FTP access to the site is:
After creating a static page called “Home,” I ended up with 2 tabs with the same name because one is hard coded into the header.php file. Each theme may be slightly different, but for mine I went to APPEARANCE, then EDITOR while logged into WordPress as Admin. On the right side I clicked header.php and … Read more