Troubleshoot and Repair Your WordPress Website

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Free Online Course: Troubleshoot and Repair Your WordPress Website provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Troubleshoot and Repair Your WordPress Website is taught by Joe Casabona.

Overview
  • Learn how to prevent, address, and resolve problems with your WordPress website.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • The pros and cons of running a WordPress site
    • What you should know
    • How the course works
    1. Getting Ahead of Problems
    • Preparing your WordPress site for problems
    • Find the right hosting
    • Backing up your site
    • Securing your site
    • Automatic updates
    • Testing your site with a staging server
    2. Common Troubleshooting Steps
    • Disabling plugins to find the problem
    • Moving to a default theme
    • How to use recovery mode
    • Down for everyone, or just me?
    • Reverting updates with WP Rollback
    • Testing with a different WordPress install or server
    3. Common Problems and Solutions
    • The dreaded white screen of death
    • Stuck in maintenance mode
    • Issues with file uploads
    • Pretty URLs not working properly and other random 404 errors
    • Using a redirect plugin for actually broken links
    • Recovering lost changes with Revision History
    • Why do blocks keep needing to be recovered?
    4. Problems That Require Working with Your Server
    • General web server errors: the 400s
    • General web server errors: the 500s
    • How to fix the "site insecure" error with an SSL certificate
    • How to fix mixed content errors
    • Error establishing a database connection
    • Unable to write to a directory, or update themes/plugins
    5. Advanced Problems
    • Unable to deliver emails/emails going to spam
    • General caching issues (types of cache)
    • Cannot modify header error
    • Site running out of memory
    • Execution limit exceeded
    • Using WP-CLI to solve your WordPress problems
    Conclusion
    • Next steps