After a WordPress site move to new hosting, some images wouldn’t load and investigating the php error log revealed:
open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s)
The solutions was to edit the database using phpMyAdmin, go to the table wp_options and set the correct value for upload_path.
The WordPress plugin Mega Menu has the possibility to display a “down arrow” for a menu item where a submenu is available (i.e. the menu item has “children”). The problem was that the arrow was not displaying.
It turned out it was a collission with the theme, Cherry Framework 4. In the settings of the theme’s native menu, there is a possibility to enable “arrow markups”. When this is enabled in Cherry Framework 4, the arrows in Mega Menu is not displayed.
Solution: Go to Cherry -> Options -> Navigation -> Set Arrows Markup = off
When you disable breadcrumbs in Cherry Framework 4, it still reserves space for it in the header/title section of the page. This is a bit annoying, because it makes the title wrap when there still is space on the right side.
A simple CSS solution can fix this. By applying this, the breadcrumbs will not be visible even if they are enabled again.
.cherry-breadcrumbs .col-md-5 { /* no breadcrumbs, title in full width */
width: 100%;
}
.cherry-breadcrumbs .col-md-7 { /* no breadcrumbs, hide the breadcrumb container */
display: none;
}
Being unable to login to your WordPress site, the first step is to follow this guide.
In a client case, none of the suggested steps helped and we were still locked out. It turned out that the plugin causing the lockout (error message invalid username or password) was Invisible reCaptcha.
It is possible to enable the settings for Enable Login Form protection even though the Site and Secret Keys are empty in the Settings tab in the plugin.
After logging out, it will not be possible to login again and no error message is indicating the problem is caused by the Invisible reCaptcha plugin. This must be considered a bug.
The solution is to remove wp-content/plugins/invisiblerecaptcha using FTP, then login and reinstall the plugin and configure Site and Secret Keys.
In older WordPress installations there was a possibility to handle links. I recently installed a new WordPress 4.9 and I can’t find links (or blogroll). i.e. the Link Manager, anymore. Where is it?
From version 3.5 of WordPress, the Links section is not visible anymore if there were no links present or if it is a new installation.
If you want it back, you can download Link Manager here.
When you switch from one theme to another in WordPress you will discover that all widgets you had is gone. Is there a way to keep the widgets when switching themes?
Short answer is – no. The widgets are set specifically for the theme.
But it is often quite simple to resolve the situation. After you switch theme, go to Appearance -> Widgets and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Here you will find Inactive widgets. You can simply pull them back into your new theme’s widget position and get them back where you want them.
WordPress widgets
However, if the widgets you were using was part of the theme you switched from, they will not be available when using the new theme so in that case you need to find an alternative plugin or widget.
Normally when moving, mirating or deploying a WordPress site, I use the Akeeba Backup plugin for WordPress. This works excellent, also for sites built using SiteOrigin Pagebuilder and SiteOrigin widgets bundle.
If, for some reason, it is not possible to use Akeeba Backup and a more traditional approach is used, like transferring the files using FTP, dumping the database to a SQL file, replacing the urls in the SQL file from the old url to the new, you will run into trouble if the old and new urls have different lengths (number of characters) because Pagebuilder uses something called serialization.
However, there is a solution:
To make the footer widgets visible when using the Cherry Framework 4 template for WordPress:
Adding a form to your WordPress website is normally done by using a plugin for it, like Contact Form 7 for example. At some hosting providers, there can be a problem for the plugin to send emails to you when someone is posting through the form. To prevent spam through forms, many hosting providers disable the PHP mail function that is used in WordPress to send emails, causing for example form plugins not being able to send emails.
The solution is to set up WordPress to use SMTP, preferrably with authentication, to send the emails through a real email server. To do this you need a plugin like WP Mail SMTP. Set it up either with the hosting provider’s SMTP server or use the one you normally use for email.