Tag: WordPress

WordPress powers around 33% of the whole internet (that’s 1 in 3 websites running on this overgrown blog platform), and that percentage includes this website as well. Since I host this and a number of other websites, I occasionally run into issues with the weirder quirks of WordPress, and try to document them on this blog as well.

To some extent WordPress is an example of my age-long quest not to specialize too much and not to become too laser-focused on what I do in my daily work. And since my daily work revolves around Azure, SharePoint and .NET, it’s refreshing (and challenging) to work with something totally different. Examples of that are WordPress, Google Analytics and Ads, Usability Analytics and the occasional accounting/bookkeeping gig I still do.

But long story short, this category contains my articles about how to fix stuff running on WordPress.

Y2K20 - a new era of bugs

WordPress media uploads failing after year/month change? Easy fix :)

Oh, WordPress just keeps on giving! 😂 So it’s another year, and it’s time for some Y2k20-issues! I was too young to fix any Y2K-issues myself, so I guess it’s just fitting something breaks now. This article explains one possible fix to a situation, where your pictures in WordPress fail to show up. Symptoms So this was a fairly random WordPress-issue I encountered. It goes something like this: Suddenly each and every uploaded picture on your WordPress site fails to display. It’s available and editable…Continue reading WordPress media uploads failing after year/month change? Easy fix :)

WordPress updates...

WordPress blog article edit mode: No Tags or Categories visible?

This post describes a couple of useful solutions or workarounds for an awkward situation, where you can’t manage the metadata of your articles on WordPress. This hampers greatly your ability to organize your posts – and if you’re using WordPress like I’m using, also lowers the visibility of your new articles (I’m using the tags as hashtags when sharing to social channels)! We don’t want that. But what’s actually causing it? Description of the issue So you know that little panel on the right hand…Continue reading WordPress blog article edit mode: No Tags or Categories visible?

“500 Internal Server Error” after updating a WordPress site to PHP 7.3

Now for something totally different – for a change, I got to fix an issue with my own blog, so I had the chance to delve into PHP and WordPress configurations… :) PHP is an ever-evolving language – even if it might not always feel that way. The old workhorse has been powering most of the internet for a couple of decades, and weirdly enough, doesn’t really show signs of going anywhere. A huge part of the success story has been the fact that WordPress,…Continue reading “500 Internal Server Error” after updating a WordPress site to PHP 7.3

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Thanks for an amazing 2018!

Year 2018 is drawing to an end, and it’s a good time for some reflection on what an interesting year it’s been! Personally, quite a few things have happened in the last 12 months – I moved to Canada, started a new/old job, became a father, spoke at awesome events, met a lot of cool people – just tons of awesome stuff. But personal things aside, 2018 has been an interesting and rewarding time to be writing this blog! 2018 was the year when the…Continue reading Thanks for an amazing 2018!