A large portion of my paid work involves modifying and maintaining Wordpress installations. I’ll post short tutorials or solutions to bugs here. Most of these solutions are based on threads from various forums that I found whilst solving problems myself, and I’ll link back to those. I’m posting the solutions here because for a single problem, there’s only one solution, but so many wrong or incomplete answers to wade through in Google results.
If you can possibly avoid using Windows hosting, do so. If you have to use it, there is still hope! Here are some old posts dealing with pretty permalinks on IIS. You will need to be fairly confident at changing settings in your hosting account, and using FTP to upload and change files on your …
I regularly need to add myself as an administrator to WordPress sites that someone else has installed. I’m always given database access to these sites, but no WordPress account. Why not just log in on the Admin account that’s already there? WordPress encrypts passwords in the database, so you can’t log in with the string …
I’ve got the Windows server blues… This solution is based on this WordPress.org thread. PROBLEM When you try to update WordPress or install plugins, the downloader / installer page pops up, the compressed file is downloaded to your server, but installation fails because of this error: PCLZIP_ERR_MISSING_FILE (-4) : Missing archive file ‘C:\Windows\TEMP/{whatever you were …