Tim Nash
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot preview postYou mention that your WordPress address and site url are the https:// version, it’s worth double checking that they are and one of them is not pointing to the non www version.
While the home page is showing up, is the URL in the top of the page, the homepage URL or does it have ? and a string of content behind it?
Also are you using a plugin like:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ssl-insecure-content-fixer/
or
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-https/Finally do you have permalinks enabled so your urls look like example.com/hello-world/ or similar rather then example.com/?post_id=1
Sorry for all the questions basically trying to determine if the issue, is the preview being stripped out, or the cookie not being set correctly. One last question and it’s a very big wild card are you using HHVM (you would know if you were, so don’t worry if you never heard of it)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Internal Server ErrorIs this happening routinely or was it just a one off.
If it’s happened just once, it could well have been an issue with the server at that split second and not an issue.If it’s continued and it sounds like it has, then it maybe that your host is limiting or can’t support the amount of work it has to do when posting content.
Does the content get posted and show on the front end?A few things to do and some of these may have been discussed before:
You might want to check for plugins which do things when you post, like syndicating your post to Facebook for example and specifically disable them.
Switch on WP_DEBUG by going into your wp-config.php file and setting WP_DEBUG to true, then try posting content it may show additional error messages, which can help debugging, if you don’t understand the message don’t worry you can post it back here.
Limit revisions in the DB, by default WordPress stores lot’s of versions of your post and pages and these build up.
You can limit how many revisions are stored by going to wp-config.php and adding
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', 4);
This limits the number of revisions stored per post to 4, so only the last 4 revisions are stored. Bare in mind, if you make lots of small changes by limiting revisions you won’t be able to access old ones.It’s also worth talking to your host and they maybe able to give you some advice as well.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Creating Copy of my Site in Cpanel, CANT FIND wp-config.phpThe wp-config.php file is normally created during the install process, if you haven’t installed WordPress rather copied it over and not copied the wp-config from the dev site then it won’t be there until you do the install.
It’s also worth remembering the wp-config.php file can be one level higher then the WordPress folder so if you have public_html and inside it a folder wp with WordPress, the wp-config.php file could be in the wp folder or the public_html folder. Likewise if WordPress is just in the public_html folder then wp-config could be in it’s parent folder.
So you can either copy the file from your dev site, open it in an editor and change the database details as needed.
Run the WordPress installation, which will ask for DB details and the install will detect the WordPress tables existing and won’t overwrite them (but remember you will need to change your site_url and home_url options in wp_options or you won’t be able to login)
Alternatively you can create a new file on the server called wp-config.php and populate it by copying the content from the sample one.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress could not establish a secure connectionCouple of things worth checking, also you don’t mention if this is a new problem or if you could search before and it’s now stopped working.
In your WordPress admin, under settings there are two boxes with urls that point to where WordPress is installed and the home, make sure these are filled in and are correct.
If that’s not it, then it could be your server can’t communicate with WordPress.org this maybe due to the way your host has configured their servers.
You may need to use a proxy to make an external http request, if this was the case it’s probably something your host will have told you about and given you some settings which can then be added to your wp-config.php
/** EXAMPLE - proxy settings */ define('WP_PROXY_HOST', 'proxy.url.com'); define('WP_PROXY_PORT', '1234'); define('WP_PROXY_USERNAME', ''); define('WP_PROXY_PASSWORD', ''); define('WP_PROXY_BYPASS_HOSTS', 'localhost');Other issues, maybe related to if the host doesn’t have security bundles installed this might also cause the connection to fail. Ultimately you may need to contact your host to help you resolve such issues.
However before you do, a way to get more information is to turn on WP_DEBUG by going to your wp-config.php file and setting the WP_DEBUG to true. Then retrying to search for a new plugin. Hopefully some additional error messages will appear with more detailed information.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I add pages to my rss feed?Back when WordPress was more of a blogging platform Pages were intended to be standalone content separate from your “chronological” based posts. So it did not make sense for Pages to be in RSS feeds as they were seen as timeless (even if they did have publish date).
You didn’t mention which plugins you have tried, but the one that appears to be most recommended is https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-includes-pages/
Just note the Author has yet to announce if it works with WordPress 4.0, so you might need to test it first. However it’s unlikely that it would stop working between 3.9.2 and 4.0.
Hi Alex,
When you select multiple images at once, they get added as a gallery and are treat as 1 single item, which doesn’t show in the normal editor as you discovered.The simple solution though a little more awkward if you need to add multiple images and change them is to add them into the post one at a time.
It’s a little more work, but you get full control of the image, if you don’t need to worry about editing the image then the gallery works very well.
The other thing to just note is your theme might style gallery images slightly differently, to make them stand out as a collection of images. You may or may not want that, but it’s worth baring in mind.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: High CPU UsageCapping out CPU is normally an impressive feat, so it may well be the host is to limited for your needs however, do you get periodic spikes, or a gradual increase?
Within WordPress very little causes large spikes in CPU and normally these actions are very short for example
Running the Cron job (this is a method of doing background processes, WordPress uses to tidy things up and plugins hook into to do actions in the background) this is normally the biggest spike, as it is totally uncached and maybe doing a lot of work depending on the number plugins using it. Also if you have some sort of cut outs, where the tasks not being completed, it will all get backed up, meaning it will gradually get worse.
Publishing a post, when you publish a post the site has to do a fair amount of uncached work and the database is interacted with a bit more then normal, also if you have plugins calling remote services these also all need to be called.
Commenting on a post, when someone comments, the site has to process the comment, and if you have some sort of comment notification, notify all the users in the thread.
So with that in mind, you may want to look at if you have any plugins which are used in these 3 broad tasks and maybe consider disabling to see if it makes a difference.
While you host may not be able to offer advice, it might be worth chatting to them about options to improve your hosting options, it might be that your host is not setup to deal with your popular site.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Clicking on Publish, Update or Draft buttons triggering 404 pageHas something changed recently on your site, maybe recently updated to the latest version of WordPress, installed a plugin?
Likewise has your hosting company mentioned them changing anything.
Some things to troubleshoot:
Do you have a service, that is posting content elsewhere, like posting to Facebook/Twitter etc when you hit Publish, if so you may wish to temporarily disable that plugin and see if the issue occurs?If you have recently changed hosts, a lot of users historically (from quick Googling) had issues with mod_security. This is normally related to their hosting and is something that would be an issue from the start.
Within your settings page, you have a 2 URLs which say where WordPress is and where the home page is, are these correct?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Doing Commerce/Business with a WordPress.org Site/BlogYes, you can use WordPress.org site on a commercial site for free, with no additional fees associated with it. The software is Free to be used and modified in a very open license, though like all software does have a license with limitations, but these limitations do not effect you using it in a commercial environment.
However WordPress has plugins and themes, many of which are free, however some are paid for. You can choose to not to use paid plugins and simply use the thousands of free options. If you do pay for commercial plugins then these may come with limitations.
Likewise there are many services that can integrate into your site and these are covered under a separate license.
The resources linked to above have more details.
TLDR;
Yes, you can use it commercially without paying a license fee.I’m afraid I don’t think it would be easy to do, unless your current subscribers are all using one account type/ subscription. That said we can create a conversion script was not aware of any paybox customers with live sites other wise we would have thought about this sooner.
You can find out about us quite easily and a quick Google of my name Tim Nash will show anyone who I am. We also clearly state we are not CNM LTD but it is quite common for companies and particularly if they are non limited to share common words it’s also very common for companies to have site names that are not the same name as the company 😉
I would hope no one wastes their money and since you already have a membership plugin (I presume it works 😉 ) it would seem silly of you to buy ours unless it was so you could use some of the additional features.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Membership website with wordpress?Looking at the comments from people attempting to integrate 1shoppingcart with other products I suspect the answer is not without difficulty, I will take a closer look at it this evening and see if its something that is a) feasible to do and b) if other users would be interested in integration with it.
I tend to only visit wordpress.org once every couple of days so you might be better of contacting or asking for features on our forums they are free and open so even if you haven’t made or even thinking about a purchase you can come and ask questions.
http://www.newmedias.co.uk/wordpress-membership/features/
But briefly:- Pay Per Post – allow users to pay for one of pages or posts instead of or as well as membership site
- Post Delay – prevent users from accessing all your content at once even with the right access levels via post delay
- RSS Tokens – Allow users the choice of HTTP Authentication or RSS tokens to read members only posts in RSS reader
- third part integration so on return from payment processing you can inform autoresponders affiliate systems etc
Are literally of the top of my head free support plus our community of purchasers are driving Your Members a quick look on the forum you will see feature requests and on the whole us delivering them as quickly as possible which reminds me support is free to all and we are trying to be as open as possible so we don’t hide the support forum warts and all.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Membership management plug-inI’m sorry I didn’t find this earlier we are offering all paybox and Gootix customers a large discount if you want to get in touch with me then please do it sales@venture-skills.co.uk if you used (or tried to use) Evilbox you will love Your Members.
To iamthechosenone please I know it seemed like a good idea but people have been genuinely burned if you are the owner of wp-member then please leave the poor guys burned by paybox alone they don’t need to be stung twice and unless you are willing to match our offer your plugin is going to cost them yet more money particularly to get support which they may well need just to fix their WordPress installs from Paybox. Up until now I have just teased you but please do not cause any real harm.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: membership site pluginThanks Ellen for the hat tip,
oh look its iamthechosenone 😉While obviously we think Your Members is probably the best wordpress membership plugin. You could also look at wp-commerce members function and fastmembership which is also wordpress based.