Practical solutions for WordPress errors, fatal errors, admin problems, plugin conflicts, migrations, cron failures, database issues, and common website malfunctions.
A WordPress user recently reported that a plugin worked correctly until the website was upgraded to WordPress 7. After the upgrade, activating or using the plugin caused a PHP fatal error. In some cases, the entire website crashed. In others, only form submissions stopped working. This type of problem does not necessarily mean that WordPress … Read more
A WordPress website owner purchased a large hosting package because the original plan was to store and serve several video files directly from the website. Unfortunately, video playback and website performance were much slower than expected. The owner already had access to a faster reseller hosting package from the same hosting company and wanted to … Read more
A WooCommerce website may unexpectedly accumulate hundreds of thousands of records in the following database table: Many of these records may contain values similar to: Once the table becomes large, queries involving it may take several seconds to complete. This can slow down the WordPress dashboard, coupon validation, cart requests, checkout processing, scheduled jobs, or … Read more
A WooCommerce store may allow customers to apply one product filter successfully but display a 403 Access Denied error as soon as they select another filter. For example: The same problem can occur when combining category, color, size, price, brand, or other product attributes. Because the first filter works, the filter interface and product query … Read more
WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce includes an option to automatically calculate a bundle’s regular and sale prices from the products inside it. However, some store owners encounter a serious synchronization problem: Manually resaving a few bundles is inconvenient. Doing it for tens of thousands of bundles is not realistic. This guide explains why the problem … Read more
Changing a product’s Yoast primary category can also change its permalink when the category is included in the WooCommerce product URL. For example, the original product URL might be: After changing the primary category, WooCommerce may generate: The expected behavior is for the old URL to return a permanent 301 redirect to the new URL. … Read more
Renaming an Advanced Custom Fields field can cause previously entered category text to suddenly disappear from WordPress and Elementor. This often happens after creating an ACF WYSIWYG field for category archive content, adding detailed SEO text to multiple categories, and then changing the field’s Field Name to make it reusable or better organized. After saving … Read more
A WooCommerce store owner recently reported that their shipping zones had stopped applying correctly. The business was based in England and had configured a £40 delivery charge for Scotland. However, an order placed for delivery to Edinburgh received free shipping instead of the expected £40 charge. The shipping settings appeared to be correct, and the … Read more
A WooCommerce store owner may discover an unexpected customer photo inside the WordPress or WooCommerce customer details screen. This can be especially concerning when: The immediate assumption may be that WooCommerce accessed Facebook, Gmail, or another social account without permission. In most cases, however, WooCommerce did not retrieve the photo directly from Facebook. The image … Read more
When installing Wordfence Security on a WordPress website, the license activation process may fail with the following message: The error can occur with both newly requested free licenses and existing Premium licenses. Requesting the license repeatedly with different email addresses does not necessarily solve it because the email address is often not the actual cause. … Read more