WordPress is possibly the most powerful website creation and content management platform in the world. However, it can be vulnerable to glitches and bugs like all open source systems. This post looks at some of the most common issues reported by WordPress s and easy fixes.
Slow Loading Time
If the site’s loading time is too long, the site is likely experiencing a surge in traffic, which your hosting provider is struggling to cope with. Other reasons include a PHP that needs updating or the lack of a content delivery network.
To speed up your WordPress site, check if there might be a hosting provider better capable of managing the traffic to your site. If you’re consistently struggling with low speed, it might be time to change your provider.
WP Rocket and other caching plug-ins can speed up the loading times. Switching to PHP 7 from 5.6 can improve your speed by almost a third.
Usually, a CDN server will be closer to your site’s visitors than the original one.
Last but not least, HTTPS is much faster and more secure than plain old HTTP.
My Email Didn’t Come
This is one of the most common issues with WordPress. If your recipients aren’t getting your emails, check if your server has been configurated to use the PHP mail feature correctly. As spam tools become more advanced, many WordPress emails end up in spam even with this function. Instead of the mail feature, use Simple Mail Transfer. This will guarantee your WordPress emails will be delivered every time.
oEmbed Function Not Working
After Meta made changes to its API policy, WordPress s who wanted to retrieve data from the social medium’s Graph API had to a specific app and use a token to their ID. Instead of the previous Oembeds, use Smash Balloon’s plug-ins for Instagram and Meta.
Getting Stuck in Maintenance Mode
When you update a theme or a plug-in, like WordPress IDX plugins, your website automatically goes into maintenance mode. The site gets stuck in this mode in the event of a power cut during this time, and no visitor can access it.
Look for the .maintenance file in the root folder and delete it. This will work in most cases. If it doesn’t, it might be that a certain theme or plug-in is causing the site to freeze in this mode. Find the problematic element and reinstall or disable it.
White Screen of Death
Almost every WordPress is familiar with this. It is a blank white screen, which tends to appear when some pages have reached their PHP memory limit. To resolve the issue, disable your plug-ins and themes one by one until you find the problematic element.
Connection Timed Out
This happens when your website’s data processing capacity has been exceeded. VPS is a feasible alternative to shared hosting if you need to use plug-ins that use up a lot of resources.
Exhausted Memory Alert
If you get an exhausted memory alert, a plug-in or script is not working properly. The faulty element is depleting the site’s default memory. To fix this issue, your PHP memory limit should be at least 256 MB. You can increase it using a code in the root folder’s wp-config.php file.
No Database
If the connection between your database and your WordPress site falls through, the accuracy of your database’s credentials: name, host, and . If they are accurate, it’s likely your database broke down. This can be checked in the wp- section. The issue is resolved by entering a certain line of code in the wp-config file.
Final Thoughts
As you can see, most WordPress problems are easy to fix. All you need to know are a few lines of code. Write them down in a notebook or save them in a file and where you put the notebook or file. The right type of hosting and hosting plan will do away with most of the above issues.