Practical solutions for WordPress errors, fatal errors, admin problems, plugin conflicts, migrations, cron failures, database issues, and common website malfunctions.
If you install the Matomo Analytics for WordPress plugin, it uses the same MySQL or MariaDB database that WordPress already uses. It does not normally require you to create a second database. Matomo’s official documentation explicitly describes the WordPress version as installing Matomo on the same server and using the same database as the WordPress … Read more
WordPress Site Health may report two apparently separate critical issues: An active PHP session was detected and: The REST API encountered an error If you are using the Free Vehicle Data UK / Rapid Car Check plugin, an unnecessary session_start() call inside the plugin can be the common cause. WordPress specifically checks whether a PHP … Read more
If an animated image works inside the WordPress editor but appears completely static on the published page, the animation itself may still be intact. A common cause is that the editor and frontend are loading two different versions of the same Media Library attachment. For example: Editor:animation.webp✓ animatedFrontend:animation-768×432.webp✗ first frame only That filename difference is … Read more
When rebuilding a large form in Sense Forms, the Save button is one of the controls you use most frequently. If that button sits immediately beside the WordPress user menu in the upper-right corner of wp-admin, however, a small positioning problem can become a repetitive workflow issue. The WordPress toolbar places the current-user account menu … Read more
Maileroo works with WordPress through standard SMTP, but if your mail plugin supports provider-specific API connections for services such as Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, or Postmark, it is reasonable to expect a native Maileroo API option as well. For FluentSMTP users, this distinction currently matters. FluentSMTP can send through Maileroo using its generic Other SMTP … Read more
Building a short form with five or six fields rarely exposes problems with a form builder’s interface. The experience changes significantly when a form contains dozens of fields. If the Field List and Field Properties panels sit at the top of the editor and scroll away with the form canvas, working near the bottom of … Read more
A particularly confusing WordPress problem can occur after testing hCaptcha for WP’s Protect Content feature: you disable the protection, remove the protected URL, uninstall the plugin, clear caches, and yet the homepage still displays the full-page hCaptcha verification screen. At that point it looks as though hCaptcha has installed some hidden script elsewhere on the … Read more
If activating White Label CMS causes: to redirect repeatedly back to: while this URL still works: you already have two unusually useful diagnostic clues. The first is the response header: WordPress’s wp_redirect() function uses WordPress as the default value for the X-Redirect-By response header. That means a redirect containing this header is being generated through … Read more
If notification messages in Easy Content Manager (ECM) become unreadable when using its light interface, inspect the notification’s CSS before blaming your WordPress theme. A useful clue is this ECM class: If Chrome DevTools shows a rule such as: while the notification itself has a white or very light background, the browser is doing exactly … Read more
If Jetpack Social shows duplicate Threads, Bluesky, or other social connections and clicking Disconnect produces: the social account itself is not necessarily the problem. Jetpack Social currently sends a WordPress REST API request when you disconnect a social connection. On a self-hosted site, that request is then handled by Jetpack and passed to WordPress.com, where … Read more