Title: grell67's Replies | WordPress.org --- # grell67 [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WordPress could not establish a secure connection to WordPress.org.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-could-not-establish-a-secure-connection-to-wordpress-org-13/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-could-not-establish-a-secure-connection-to-wordpress-org-13/#post-18510195) * Thank you, * I have checked the site health and it mentions the following: * Communicating with the WordPress servers is used to check for new versions, and to both install and update WordPress core, themes or plugins. * Error Your site is unable to reach WordPress.org at 198.143.164.251, and returned the error: cURL error 6: getaddrinfo() thread failed to start * There is also another issue: * The REST API is one way that WordPress and other applications communicate with the server. For example, the block editor screen relies on the REST API to display and save your posts and pages. * When testing the REST API, an error was encountered: * REST API Endpoint: [https://languagecaster.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post?context=edit](https://languagecaster.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post?context=edit) REST API Response: (http_request_failed) cURL error 6: getaddrinfo() thread failed to start * Thank you * Damian * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry] Theme player is showing but not playing after migration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-player-is-showing-but-not-playing-after-migration/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [1 year, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-player-is-showing-but-not-playing-after-migration/#post-18170732) * When I disabled the powerpress settings I received a message from the theme’s player: * ‘The player couldn’t recognise and retrieve audio data’ * Is there something I need to update for the Theme player to work in addition to the Blubrry one? It used to before the migration. * Damian * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Encoding issues (strange characters appearing)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/#post-17934121) * Thank you again * I added the code (above) but no change yet. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Encoding issues (strange characters appearing)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/#post-17933421) * Hello and thanks for the response. * Yes, we did add the following to the wp-config.php – does it matter where we add this on the page? (Sorry again for the ridiculous questions!) * Damian * ```wp-block-code /** Database charset to use in creating database tables.define( 'DB_CHARSET', 'utf8' );/* The database collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */ ``` * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Encoding issues (strange characters appearing)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/#post-17932755) * Thank you for responding and apologies for not getting back before now. * > Have a look under Tools > Site Health > Info > Database to see what has been > read out there. > There must be an entry for the charset there, it is in every project for me. > If you don’t have it, the question would be which WordPress version are you > using? * I did (finally!) check under Site Health > Info and saw nothing under charset– should there be something written there? If so, what and how would I be able to add something? Sorry for my lack of understanding! * We are using the most up to date version of WordPress (6.6.1). We asked our hosting team (A2) but they were not able to help us apart from suggesting a re-install of an earlier save. * Thanks * Damian * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Encoding issues (strange characters appearing)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/#post-17865688) * Hello again, * I wonder if anyone has any other ideas as we still have the same issue. If we do something simple like choosing a different font – would that help? We are using the default in our theme (Megaphone). * Thanks * Damian * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Encoding issues (strange characters appearing)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/#post-17848569) * Hello and thanks for the reply. 1. We have looked at site health and it appears okay – there was no record of anything to do with charset or collation. The only thing that was highlighted was the following which we don’t think is related: A PHP session was created by a `session_start()` function call. This interferes with REST API and loopback requests. The session should be closed by `session_write_close()` before making any HTTP requests. 2. We then added code to wp-config.php: below: Software>Select PHP version> selected – mysqli and mysqind 27. From mysqind, nd_mysqli, and nd_pdo_mysql * Neither of these helped unfortunately. * Damian * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Encoding issues (strange characters appearing)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issues-strange-characters-appearing/#post-17842655) * Thanks for getting back to us. * This page (in Portuguese) is still full of unusual characters: [https://languagecaster.com/?page_id=1158](https://languagecaster.com/?page_id=1158) * And this post is an example of many posts that have quotation marks or accents [https://languagecaster.com/football-language-to-be-at-it/](https://languagecaster.com/football-language-to-be-at-it/) - Example: “We are all looking forward to Harrogate on Saturday. We need ** to be at it** and set the tempo.” (Gillingham boss Neil Harris before the big game: ([Gillingham FC, August 2023](https://www.gillinghamfootballclub.com/news/2023/september/harris--we-need-to-be-at-it/)) - Example: “Teams who come here know they will be in for a tough game and we want opponents thinking that – but if they are, we have to make sure that **we’re on it** from the first minute.” ([Barrow.com November 2020](https://www.barrowafc.com/news/2020/november/201120-david-dunn-wants-barrow-at-it-from-first-whistle-against-forest-green-rovers/)) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Football Pool] Women’s World Cup 23](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/womens-world-cup-23/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/womens-world-cup-23/#post-16923643) * Thank you! * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[wpForo Forum] Widget question](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-question-16/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-question-16/#post-15101476) * Hello again, * wpFororecent topics widget * I am sorry I am not sure how to add a screen shot here! The footer is at the end of this page: [](https://languagecaster.com/) * Damian * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Football Pool] 2019 Women’s World Cup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2019-womens-world-cup/) * [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2019-womens-world-cup/#post-11588422) * Hi Antoine, * Thank you for this and of course for the plug-in. * Best wishes * Damian * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Football Pool] 2019 Women’s World Cup](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2019-womens-world-cup/) * [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2019-womens-world-cup/#post-11574327) * Hello, * Thank you to those who have added the files for the Women’s World Cup and of course for the plug-in itself. However, I am having trouble importing this file and receive messages such as this: * > Imported csv file should contain 18 columns (header contains 213 columns). > See help page for the correct format. * I have looked at previous csv files (e.g. 2014 World Cup) and adapted the file above to match it but I still receive the same message. * Any help? * Thank you * Damian - This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/). * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Football Pool] User registration is currently not allowed.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-registration-is-currently-not-allowed-14/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-registration-is-currently-not-allowed-14/#post-10369372) * Thank you so much – completely forgot to check that! Brilliant – all working now. * Thank you * Damian * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Football Pool] Removing non-playing users from predictions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-non-playing-users-from-predictions/) * Thread Starter [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-non-playing-users-from-predictions/#post-8204308) * Thank you! * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [Can’t delete links in blogroll](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-delete-links-in-blogroll/) * [grell67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grell67/) * (@grell67) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-delete-links-in-blogroll/#post-735920) * It’s happening on my site too. Upgraded to 2.5 and can’t delete anything from the blogroll. 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