Issue WordFence for WordPress scan reports the following “high” level security warnings: Unknown file in WordPress core: wp-admin/css/colors/light/php.ini (+ 94 more).This file is in a WordPress core location but is not distributed with this version of WordPress. This scan often includes files left over from a previous WordPress version, but it may also find files…

Sometimes I need to create a WordPress website clone for testing purposes. This normally goes onto a subdomain, i.e. if the main website is mysite.com, the temporary test version will be dev.mysite.com. If you simply restore the website, including the SQL database from a backup, as soon as you try to navigate to dev.mysite.com, you…

Issue Cannot import SQL database extracted from Plesk web server backup. The following error is displayed in phpMyAdmin: Static analysis:…errors were found during analysis.Unexpected character. (near “” at position…)

I manage a few WordPress websites and one of them comes with a theme that uses the WPBakery Page Builder plugin. The theme is well supported and developers regularly release updates, however, there inevitably is a delay between WPBakery updates and the theme developer updates. Until developers run their tests and release a theme update,…

Joomla website is failing Google Search Console’s Mobile Usability checks with multiple pages marked as “Page isn’t usable on mobile“. Specifically, the errors are “Clickable elements too close together” and “Text too small to read“. Visually I couldn’t identify any issues with website rendering on a mobile device. Doing a Live Test on one of…

Issue After moving a WordPress site from a development environment area to the production (which involved the domain change), the wp-admin area doesn’t load any CSS Styles or Scripts. Basically, the admin section is completely broken. The website front-end is not affected and working fine. Browser Dev Console shows 403 (Forbidden) errors loading files wp-admin/load-styles.php and wp-admin/load-styles.php.…

Issue WordPress website backups using the BackWPup plugin complete with following warnings: WARNING: File name “wp-content/pluglns/woocommerce/packages/woocommerce-blocks/build/very-very-long-file-name.js” is too long to be saved correctly In Tar archive! Resolution As the message suggests, the issue is caused by file name length exceeding the Tar archive limit. The same limitation affects Tar GZip archive format. The workaround was to change…

Issue Cannot install a WordPress theme by uploading a .zip file. The following message is shown: The link you followed has expired.Please try again. Resolution The error message above doesn’t give many clues, but this issue is caused by uploading a theme’s .zip file that is larger than the web server’s upload limit. You can…

Issue Nord VPN OpenVPN profile on Synology NAS suddenly stopped working. After trying to establish a connection, the following error pops up for a few seconds: VPNFailed to establish network connection.Authorization Required. Resolution To set up an OpenVPN profile, you must use Service Credentials instead of your normal NordVPN username and password. In this case,…

Issue Joomla 4 Extensions Updater shows the following warning at the top of the page: Update: Could not open update site #59 “Lab5 – Update Server (lab5_captcha)”, URL: https://downloadserver.lab5.ch/updates.joomla.xml?extension=plg_lab5_captcha/extension.xml  This doesn’t affect functionality, other extensions are updated with no issues. The update site in question is not showing in System > Update Sites. Resolution The site…

Issue After upgrading Joomla v3 to Joomla v4 (4.3.4), website admin cannot add any new menu items. The following error is displayed when trying to save a new menu item: Save failed with the following error: Joomla\Component\Menus\Administrator\Table\MenuTable::_getNode(1, id) failed. Existing menus are working fine, they can also be edited, it’s only new menu items that…

Issue Joomla is refusing to download an update from V3.10 to V4.3. After enabling the Joomla Next update channel, the following message is displayed: Update unavailableAn update to Joomla 4.3.4 was found, but it wasn’t possible to download that update. There are three possibilities why this happens:– Your host doesn’t support the minimum requirements for…