Before the recent MAC OS upgrade, wordpress plugin updates were working fine on my local development environment. Then I started getting messages like “upload failed server error” when attempting to update wordpress plugins from my local hosted wordpress sites. At first, I made sure the permissions were correct and that the files and directories had… Read more Mac Locahost uploads broken after Mac OS Upgrade
After changing a domain name and updating the DNS records you might find yourself baffled by the fact that the site continues to redirect to the old domain. You may be frustrated as you have seemingly tried everything. Likely, you are dealing with a WordPress site. With a WordPress website, references to the domain name… Read more Why New Domain Keeps Forwarding to Old Domain [Solution]
If you are getting a wordpress error that starts with “mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2002):” and includes “No such file or directory” and ends with “wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1490”, then here is what resolved the issue for me. In the wp-config.php file, include (or change) this line from define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); to define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘127.0.0.1’); I put it near the… Read more [SOLVED] ERROR mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No such file or directory
Knowing which PHP function call the code we are working on can give us the clues we need for de-bugging a script. Getting the calling function is easy in PHP, thanks to the debug_backtrace() function. Just put the following code wherever in your script you need to know what function is calling the part you… Read more Get The Calling Function
You may be working with a WordPress project and wish to use SVN to have a development instance, a staging instance, a local development instance and of course a production instance of the web site. This could prove to be problematic in keeping track of your data base instances. WordPress stores the root URL (http://website.com)… Read more Import WordPress Database from Staging Server to Local Development Server