Download the article as PDF Debugging is an essential process in any software to figure out what and when it went wrong. WordPress has a way to enable debugging. It is normally turned off by default because it's not very professional to show errors on the site and this causes users to trust less that […]
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You're an awesome WordPress developer and wanted to use docker with WordPress and run into an error. in docker v1 to use docker compose you had to use docker-compose … but in v2 docker compose is added a docker subcommand i.e. docker compose To install Docker Compose v2 run this command as root.
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You will most likely see this error even on a fresh Ubuntu installation. It's really strange how nobody caught that. Yes, it’s frustrating, I know especially if you're very busy. it is possible to that this error is related to some python modules/libraries requests<2.29.0' and 'urllib3<2.0 according to the ticket below. They suggest downgrading but
You can create a temp file in your document root folder and after the tests you will need to delete it so you don't expose extra sever info to always curious spammers/hackers. if you get this php error you may need to check your php.ini settings to ensure that the allow_url_fopen ini setting in the
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The document root folder is the root folder of your site. For Ubuntu servers it's in /var/www/html and is owned by www-data user. For other sites that are hosted on the server it's usually one of these: The document root folder may or may not necessarily be the one where WordPress is installed because it
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We noticed that this error: No matching template found shows up with different WordPress themes. We tried cleaning up the cache, changing to other default WordPress themes but it didn't work. Solution Try installing a different theme to see if the problem will still persist. If you have access to wp-cli you can run this
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Does your code have enough memory to handle most/all errors? We have some code that catches when the sites crash with 'Allowed memory size exhausted' error in PHP. It turned out that when a code in a plugin/theme has an infinite loop or tries to consume too much memory it exhausts it all.This turned out
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Well, you shouldn’t be 🙂 Did you know or remember that WordPress has a less scary box where you can write you blog post drafts? It’s right in your WordPress Dashboard. You can use it to create drafts of your blog posts. It consists of just two boxes without any formatting and you can just
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xdebug is an awesome debugging extension and it has saved me so much time when developing and also when troubleshooting php scripts and WordPress plugins. When you’re working with xdebug in your PHP development environment and using functions like var_dump() to output some debugging data (logging is better but sometimes you have to do it),
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This tutorial assumes that you are using Apache web server and php as an apache module. The steps may differ if you have a different set up. For example nginx, php-fpm + apache, docker etc. As of this writing the old version is PHP 7.4 and the new PHP version is 8.3. You may need
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