Overview
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Learn how to prevent, address, and resolve problems with your WordPress website.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- The pros and cons of running a WordPress site
- What you should know
- How the course works
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- Next steps
