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Manually Remove the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin
I installed the W3 Total Cache plugin last night and enabled about 1/2 of the features. Everything seemed fine initially so I left it alone. Today I went to write a post and noticed my site was down. Yikes! No idea how long it was down because no one bothered to tell me (thanks for […]
cytanium, Hosting, IIS, Troubleshooting, WordpressChange the WordPress Domain Name After Moving a Site
If you’ve recently changed domain names, or made a copy of the site (for testing, development, or any other purpose) then you need to update the domain setting in WordPress. If you don’t, then all links will point back to the old/original domain name and take you away from the new site. You may also […]
cytanium, Hosting, PHP, WordpressUpdate Your WordPress Database Connection String
I recently decided to create a test/development instance of a WordPress site that I run. In part of doing this I had to deal with how to backup one MySQL database and restore it to another database. After that was done, and I copied over the content files, I had to tell WordPress where to […]
cytanium, Hosting, MySQL, System Administration, WordpressWordPress: Redirect One Domain to Another
I have multiple domains pointed to certain WordPress installations that I run. Some people have setups like this and run multiple sites in their WP install. I, on the other hand though, wanted to redirect all requests for certain domains to a single domain. Basically consolidating the domains so the users all wind up on […]
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