Practical solutions for WordPress errors, fatal errors, admin problems, plugin conflicts, migrations, cron failures, database issues, and common website malfunctions.
The WooCommerce cart shipping calculator normally asks customers to enter the following information: This makes sense when shipping rates depend on a customer’s exact location. However, some WooCommerce stores calculate shipping using only the selected country and state or region. In that situation, requiring City and Postcode creates unnecessary friction. Customers may not understand why … Read more
Google Site Kit may suddenly stop connecting to its authentication service after the plugin has been removed, reinstalled, or reconfigured. Instead of completing the setup, WordPress displays an error similar to this: The same message may appear on the Google authorization page: This can be especially confusing when deleting and reinstalling Site Kit makes no … Read more
Elementor widgets that randomly appear and disappear can make editing a WordPress website extremely frustrating. You may notice that: This problem is usually not caused by the widget itself. The most common causes are stale cache files, JavaScript optimization, incompatible Elementor versions, third-party addon conflicts, insufficient memory, corrupted widget data, or server security rules. The … Read more
A WordPress user reported an issue where the progress counter for an email campaign displayed twice the expected number of emails. For example, a campaign created for 1,000 recipients showed 2,000 processed emails in the campaign progress. This problem can have two very different causes: Before changing the plugin code, you must determine which situation … Read more
Google Search Console may report the following AMP issue even when your page appears to contain a perfectly large image: Image size smaller than recommended size This can be especially confusing when only one or two posts are affected while hundreds of other pages created with the same WordPress and AMP configuration pass without any … Read more
WooCommerce store owners sometimes prefer not to display credit card fields directly on their website. Instead, they want customers to leave the WooCommerce checkout page temporarily, complete payment on Stripe’s secure hosted page, and then return to the store’s order confirmation page. A common question is: I do not want customers to enter card details … Read more
An outdated custom post type sitemap can remain listed in a WordPress sitemap index even after the custom post type has been removed from the website. For example, the main sitemap may continue referencing: However, opening that URL returns a 404 Not Found error because the old blog custom post type no longer exists. You … Read more
After updating the WordPress Password Protected plugin to version 2.8.4, some websites may no longer allow anonymous access to the WordPress REST API. A typical affected website may have the following configuration: Despite the setting being enabled, requests to /wp-json/ may require the visitor to be logged in or return an authentication error. Downgrading the … Read more
You install LC Lightbox Lite because its screenshots show an attractive gallery lightbox with: However, after adding a title, caption, alt text, and description to an image in the WordPress Media Library, only the title appears in the lightbox. The description remains empty. This can look like a configuration problem, but in most cases, the … Read more
Amelia provides the following action after a booking is created: Developers can use this hook to run additional code after a front-end booking is added. However, the returned booking data does not provide a clear property indicating whether Amelia created a completely new customer or matched the booking to an existing customer. For example, there … Read more