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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Help Needed Inserting Video on PageOk, I checked again, I forgot I had a plugin on Firefox that automatically disables auto-playing videos.
What I’m seeing is on Firefox and Edge the videos will auto-play, Chrome doesn’t, and our good friend IE tries to download them. I checked the page source and I still saw the autoplay=”” on the <video> tag.
I added a quick video to my site and I could not get it to auto-play (unless I turned on auto-play). Also I didn’t have the autoplay=”” on mine. I think this is a problem with how certain web browsers handle an empty defined attribute.
On the other side of things maybe this is a bug that was addressed in an update. What version of WordPress are you using? Also do you have any media plug-ins on your site?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Updating WordPressI’ve updated mine a couple of times and haven’t had an issue with any customization. It’ll also depend on what you’ve customized, but be sure to check any plugins that your site might have for compatibility.
Also if you can, be sure to backup your website so if an issue occurs you can roll-back. There’s quite a few options here and it depends on the access you have to the machine. If you have a host, you can see if they have a backup service.
Also check the master list for known issues to see if there will be a conflict and how to resolve them:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-5-4-master-list/- This reply was modified 6 years ago by engineeringsnipits.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Recovering a SiteDo you have access to the computer/server that it is running on? Or does the host provide an SSH shell or FTP into it?
If so you can reset the password either through the database or one of the other methods in the WordPress Resetting your password guide:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Help Needed Inserting Video on PageInterestingly enough, the videos didn’t auto play for me on Firefox or Chrome, but only the second video tries to play on Edge. As for Internet Explorer, it tries to download the second video.
Looking at the HTML the first video the source is all within the <video> html tag, but the second is within and <iframe> tag and the <video> tag within the iframe has an autoplay=””
In either case, you could try editing the block as HTML and adding an autoplay=”false” element to the <video> tag.
Here’s a link to all of the elements that the <video> tag supports:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/videoForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with embedded linksWhen I check your website in Chrome with the developer console enabled, I get errors like this:
Failed to set referrer policy: The value ” is not one of ‘no-referrer’, ‘no-referrer-when-downgrade’, ‘origin’, ‘origin-when-cross-origin’, ‘same-origin’, ‘strict-origin’, ‘strict-origin-when-cross-origin’, or ‘unsafe-url’. The referrer policy has been left unchanged.Checking the forums there appears to be a post from a couple of years ago regarding this error that other posts reference:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failed-to-set-referrer-policy-error/Hope this helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Setting AllowOverride to All breaks loginFinally got it working by following the reccomendations on Stack OverFlow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13149418/the-requested-url-about-was-not-found-on-this-serverIn my Permalink settings I had to use the custom option and add a /index.php/ at the beginning.
So now the Permalink structure looks like:
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/Also with this setup my “Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.” error is gone when I try to update posts.
Not sure why the /index.php/ is necessary though.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Setting AllowOverride to All breaks loginWanted to give an update to this issue. I decided to revisit this now that it has been a few moths and I’ve updated my OS, components, and WordPress version.
I’m now using php 7.3.16, Ubuntu 18.04.4, Apache 2.4.29, mysql 5.7.29, and WordPress 5.4.
Now the silent failures are gone when I set AllowOverride All. Now I just get 404 errors when I try to navigate away from my home page and the following error when I try to edit and save pages:
Updating failed. The response is not a valid JSON response.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Setting AllowOverride to All breaks loginJust tried it, gives me the same issue as AllowOverride All. I must have a conflicting configuration somewhere, I just don’t know where.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Setting AllowOverride to All breaks loginI haven’t been using custom permalinks yet, just been trying to get the built in ones to work. The permalinks work and I no longer receive 404 errors when I set
AllowOverrideto All. However, when I do this I get silent failure on trying to log back in and it also gives me silent failure if I try to change the permalink structure to something else.