Posts Tagged ‘website repair’
Busy day in the life of a WordPress website support specialist
After nearly 15 years working with WordPress, and more than 13 years supporting other people’s websites, I end up doing a lot of really cool stuff. So I just thought I’d mention what my workday was like today. So today I… Attended my weekly business networking meeting Moved two sites to new hosting after major cleanups…
Read MoreHow can I recover my WordPress site from an old backup?
On the r/Wordpress subreddit someone asked Help needed. I need to install an old backupI have a jetbackup file from 2017 that I took from my old site. I was trying to bring it back up. I built [a test server on Amazon.] I can start the restore but I get a lot of errors.…
Read MoreNote to self: fixing “weird” Unicode characters like ‘Â’ and ‘’’ in a WordPress SQL database
This post is based in part on a more detailed post from Jeff Starr at Digging Into WordPress. I’m posting it here so I can easily find the recipe I most often need. Definitely visit Jeff’s post for a full explanation. 99.999% of WordPress users are unlikely to need to import from an older archived…
Read MoreDigging deep to find an SQL error in a WordPress site migration
We were approached to help a remote client recover their website after their in-house servers crashed. They had all the files and a recent database backup, which is great! We routinely reload websites from files and databases, so we didn’t see any problem walking the client through the steps over Zoom. But what could have…
Read MoreExpert cleaners can fix that. Like when I leave a pen in the laundry. Or when someone breaks your website…
I can’t say how cleaners feel about cleaning ink-stained shirts to be honest, but we love fixing websites. Broken or misbehaving or just plain old websites are like the world’s best puzzle. I’ve been washing and drying my own clothes for a very long time. But I can still make rookie mistakes. Like this weekend when…
Read MoreBut what if the malware is on your browser not your website?
Here at RealBasics we care a lot about keeping websites secure and sustainable. But occasionally a client will say there’s something funny going on. For instance that their website is showing advertisements or popups — something we never build into client’s business websites.* This occasionally happens to computer security researcher Dr. Neil Krawetz, who did…
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