During scanning stage of running the Duplicator plugin on a WordPress site, there was an error: Server Error 500.

Solution:

Modify /etc/php.ini file to increase memory:

memory_limit = 256M

from 128M

Tricks:

Even there is error during the scanning stage, Duplicator still allowed building step to proceed and showing no error.

Error 500 actually does not tell anything informative

No special message was logged in Apache web server

Config:

• PHP               5.6.30
• WordPress     4.7.4
• Duplicator     1.2.4

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After installing WP Fastest Cache plugin, whenever update any plugin, there is error – Update failed. Could not remove old plugin.

Solution:

1. Go to WPFC at the top bar
2. Delete Cache and Minified CSS/JS
3. Update the plugin that needs to be updated

Tricks:

In case after installing WP Fastest Cache for quite a while, then there is need to update any other plugin and you found error. It is difficult for us to remember it should be the WPFC goes wrong.

The performance of this plugin for page access speed for my case is even better than other caching plugin like WP 3C Total Cache

Config:

• WordPress    4.7.3
• WP Fastest Cache     0.8.6.7

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When moving some of the content to a single page design, the menu link will be addressing the div id instead of another page. But after all set up perfectly, the menu item link to the correct anchor, but missed to locate the correct position of the section, i.e. the anchor, div id.

Solution:

Using a WordPress plugin: Page Scroll to id and tuned the delay for scrolling setting

Tricks:

Better starts with a larger no. of delay and fine tune it to a smaller but large enough time delay for the page to run other scripts. In my case, heavy rendering for the Math symbol by MathJax may cause the missing position issue.

Config:

• WordPress     4.7.2
• Themify Theme Shoppe  1.0.2
• Page Scroll to id:  1.6.2

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error: “Sorry, no products matched your selection. Please choose a different combination.”
WooCommerce in WordPress shows all variations of variable product including unmatched variations thus the above error message may occur. But it used to be working fine. Perhaps, the error occurred after a WooCommerce update.

Solution:

Update php version from 5.4 to 5.6. Since php version 5.6 is not in the official repository of CentOS 7 as of Jan 2016, follow this thread on CentOS to install php56u works fine.

Tricks:

1. Click on System Status under WooCommerce plugin. There is a warning on php version under Server Environment stating that php 5.6 or above is required, … php5.4 is running.
2. As of Jan 2016, latest php version in the official repository of CentOS 7 is still the very old php5.4. Thus, 3rd party repository must be considered in order to install php5.6 on CentOS 7.
3. Some advise updating php with Webtatic’s php56w, but CentOS forum states that it is not recommended to use Webtatic repository.
4. After installing/ replacing php5.4 with php56u, some php extensions may not be compatible with the new version. And these extensions have to be updated too. E.g. Imagick has to be updated. If PECL is in place, the following command works fine:

#yum install php56u-pecl-imagick

Config:

• CentOS 7.3
• WordPress 4.7.1
• WooCommerce plugin   2.6.13

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It is quite terrifying if suddenly all the custom CSS disappear and you do not have a backup of the text of the custom CSS that is not just one or two lines, but it is filled with many lines.

Issue:

After updating theme Accelerate to the latest version as suggested by WordPress, all the custom CSS under Appearance admin menu of the child theme was gone.

Solution:

Restore to the original Virtual Machine hosting WordPress to the version just before updating the theme by Mac’s TimeMachine.

Tricks:

• It is supposed that the child theme would not be altered after updating the parent theme. However, I guess (as I’m not a WP framework expertise) that WordPress 4.7 removed the custom CSS option and instead deployed “Additional CSS” option, and put it in another area in the database rather than under the configuration of the theme.
• Before updating the theme version, there was no issue on the prior update of WordPress 4.6.1 to 4.7. But still the issue may not be caused by merely the latest theme version.
• Though TimeMachine can restore previous backup of Virtual Machine, it is more convenient to restore the snapshot of a Virtual Machine if there is a snapshot taking just before starting the theme update. In this case, how do people expect a child theme could be altered by updating the parent theme version?

Config:

• WordPress     4.7
• Theme            Accelerate 1.2.9
• Mac OS X      10.12.2

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“Error: Missing argument to \begin” when using \color command and together with \boxed command in WordPress with MathJax plugin as if they are under LaTex syntax.

Solution:

Adding {} to embrace the content under the \color command. Actually, in LaTex syntax, \color command does not need to use {} as all content after the \color is coloured according to the defined color, e.g. \color{red}. However, for MathJax, you cannot add another LaTex command immediately after \color command, and you need to add {} to embrace the content to be coloured. For example, \color{red}{\boxed{f(x)}}

Config:

• WordPress:         2.6.1
• MathJax plugin:  1.3.4

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After disabling a website through disabling the virtual server in Virtualmin, then re-enabled the virtual server, there’s error in accessing the website with error log:

AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace.

Solution:

1. Back to Virtualmin, select the problem web server
2. Choose Server Configuration -> Website Redirects
3. Delete the URL Path: ^/, and just leave /dav (if exist)

Tricks:

Most forums suggest editing .htaccess file in the root html directory, but it does not help

The main reason for such error is that the permission/ownership of public_html excluded the user of the specific virtual server, in my case, the ownership of the directory was set as “apache:apache”, and it created the problem that virtualmin could not create a file called disabled_by_virtualmin.html. Action point 3 of the Solution above can solve this issue just once, changing the ownership of the directory, public_html to “[web server user]:apache” can cure the issue for good.

Config:

• CentOS        7.2.1511
• Virtualmin    5.04

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WordPress plugin Tabby Responsive Tabs shows inappropriate border.

Solution:

1. Go to setting of another plugin – Easy Google Fonts,
2. Uncheck Force Styles Override (Optional)

Config:

• WordPress      4.6.1
• plugin: Tabby Responsive Tabs  1.2.3
• plugin: Easy Google Fonts   1.4.1

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Theme Virtue in my WordPress site shows no slider and no blogs which are supposed to appear in the front page.

Solution:

Login to Admin and go to

Appearance -> Theme Options -> Home Layout

In Homepage Layout Manager, drag “Page Content” from Disabled to Enabled and drag “Latest Blog Posts” from Enabled to Disabled

Tricks:

• Changing Static Front Page under Appearance -> Theme -> Customize does not help.
• In previous versions of theme Virtue, it seems that there is no such configuration parameter for Homepage Layout Manager

Config:

• WordPress 4.1.10
• Virtue   2.6.6

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WordPress plugin – Google Maps Widget cannot display google maps after plugin update. The alert in WordPress site administration page is:  “New Google Maps usage policy dictates that everyone using the maps should register for a free API key. Please create a key for “Google Static Maps API” and “Google Maps Embed API” using the Google Developers Console.” However, after getting API key and installed in that plugin setting, the map still could not be shown properly as before.

Solution:

Enable both New Google Static Maps API and Google Maps Embed API

Install the browser API key instead of the server API key though it is not stated clearly in the plugin

Domain setting is [example.com/*] instead of the suggested [*.example.com/*]

Tricks:

Click Help button in Google Developers Console and fill in Static Maps API and other relevant parameters did save a lot of time to find where these settings are located in the console.

Config:

WordPress  4.3.3

Google Maps Widget plugin 3.04

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