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WordPress 5.8 Update Could Not Be Verified

22 July 2021
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Security, Wordpress

While working on a WordPress site we were prompted to update to 5.8, but the manually pushing the button to update keep failing. The process would start, but would run into errors and stop. We tried just manually moving the directories “wp-admin” and “wp-includes” from a downloaded zip of the latest version, but this didn’t help. We ended up fixing everything by removing a few plugins we had installed and were not using. Once this was done the update button worked fine. On screen the update got to the end and read “updating database…” and hung there, but going back to the Dashboard everything was fine. The site was updated to 5.8 and running fine.

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WordPress 5.6.2 Update to 5.7 Failed – Solved

10 March 2021
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Divi Theme, Uncategorized, Wordpress, XAMPP

We do love the ease of WordPress except when it goes wrong. While working on a new site we got the 5.7 update notification, and we hit the button to update. Well it didn’t go like planned. We had try to update manually, and not something we have done often. It went pretty easy, and we didn’t disable the plugins before starting. We were able to get back into the site when we finished; however, the page content for all the pages didn’t show. We were left with a shell. We started with this article from WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/support/article/updating-wordpress/

  • We backed up the two directories “wp-admin” and “wp-includes” into a temporary folder we called “archive”.
  • Downloaded the latest package from WordPress.
  • Extracted the zip.
  • Moved the extracted “wp-admin” and “wp-includes” into our site directory.

We didn’t have move any other files or disable any plugins and we were back in action, or so we thought. We restored the site with an Akeeba backup, but the update failed again.

Our final solution was to take a copy we posted for customer review on HostGator that was able to run the update and restored this to our XXAMP development machine. Not a perfect solution, but we are building once again. There are a number of variables that are different between the hosting and the PHP versions being one of them. It looks like PHP 7.3 worked better than 7.2.

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wp-admin “redirect_to” old wrong URL after migration

5 March 2021
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Divi Theme, Uncategorized, Wordpress

We recently used Akeeba Backup to migrate a WordPress site for testing purposes; however, whenever we after enter our credentials into the new URL’s admin area we got redirected the old URL admin area. This was frustrating because we didn’t notice at first and started experimenting on the good site. A search lead us to the following post that resolved our issue.

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/121084/login-to-wp-admin-redirect-to-points-to-wrong-url-after-migration

It is a similar issue to when you manually migrate a WordPress site. We resolved the issue by going into PHPmyAdmin and the “Options” table. Sure enough the “home” and “siteURL” were set to the old site. Usually Akeeba does a great job updating this options.

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DIVI Theme 2 Map Modules Not Working

9 January 2020
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Divi Theme

We recently started a new site using a purchased Child Theme for Elegant Theme’s DIVI theme, but when needed two map modules on the same page the map module wasn’t working. Not working in the sense the module won’t “find” the second maps addresses. It was putting the starting location way out in the ocean.

We discovered the “Row” setting were “Global“, and once the “Global” was removed the second map was now working normally. This did take way more time then it should have to fix, but that is how it goes sometimes.

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Godaddy Managed WordPress SSL Installation

6 January 2020
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Godaddy Web Hosting, Managed Wordpress, Wordpress

We recently completed a Godaddy Managed WordPress site using the Elegant Themes DIVI builder. The site launched but we found that the site wasn’t ranking high in Google. The SEO strategy seemed good; however, simply adding a SSL may help.

Being short on time we decided to let Godaddy install the SSL. The manual method of installing a SSL with Godaddy can be rough. The next day we checked the site and noticed a some of the images were not showing up. We went into to site to investigate and got a warning that that the database was upgraded and we needed to click this button to okay it. Once that was done the images still were not showing up. In the media manager we got the same database upgrade warning. Once we clicked this warning the images in the media library showed up.

We did have to go back to each page that lost the images connection and just re-link them in the page builder. The image source for some images didn’t get the “https” and only had the “http“.

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Gantry WordPress Post Titles Not Linking

24 May 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Gantry, Wordpress

We switched our theme to Gantry and were very pleased; however, the blog post titles were no longer linking to the post. I quick search got me to Gantry’s site and an explanation on how to fix.

http://docs.gantry.org/gantry5/configure/content

In the WordPress Dashboard go into Gantry Theme area on the left sidebar. At the top of the page click on “Content”.

Then scroll down to “Post Title”. Check “Link Title”.

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Gantry 5 Hydrogen WordPress Module Position Not Showing

23 April 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Gantry, PHP, Wordpress

We were working with Gantry 5 Hydrogen theme in WAMP and couldn’t get the module positions to show in the Widget area. We added the Module Position to the template; however, when we went into the Widgets area that position didn’t show. We have done this feat before, but for some reason not working this time.

It was solved when we moved the site to the new hosting. It was a PHP issue. Localhost we were running 5.5 and on the server is 7.1.

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Solved – WordPress – Fatal error: Allowed memory size of

24 January 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: PHP, Wordpress

We had a Godaddy domain IP address change and afterwards we unable to access sites we had in a sub-domain. After the IP issue was resolved the sites still didn’t come up. The page read

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2348617 bytes) in

This article solved our issue.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/fix-wordpress-memory-exhausted-error-increase-php-memory/

We just had to add the following line to the “wp-config.php” file.

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');
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