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WordPress and DigitalOcean – theme install failed. Unable to create directory
After performing a recent website migration to a DigitalOcean Droplet I experienced a weird error... I'd just finished the cloning and everything looked to have gone smoothly. Everything was in it's place, all loading and functioning correctly, and with the wizardry...
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Maintaining your WordPress site
Do you find it hard to stay on top of your website requirements; Wordpress updates, theme updates, plugin updates, spam, etc etc? Have you ever run a little update, and then realised something went wrong. Maybe it's a plugin conflict? Maybe a hosting issue? Maybe your...
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Divi Text Module loses formatting
Over the last wee while we've come across a small issue with Divi and some hosting providers that can create a massive headache.The issue is that, after saving a page, all of the line breaks are removed from Text Modules (the and HTML tags are stripped out).The result...
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WordPress 4.4 and the Woothemes Xero plugin
If you use Woocommerce on your Wordpress website, there's a chance you're also using the (very good) Woothemes Xero Plugin. Unfortunately, if you've already upgraded to Wordpress 4.4 you will be receiving a new error message when you try to generate invoices. "Fatal...
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Protect Your WordPress Website | WordPress Security
With Wordpress being such a popular option amongst website creators (they claim to 'power' 23% of all websites!) it can also be a popular target for hackers. And by 'hackers' I mean 'vandals, trouble-makers, and people with nothing better to do than attempt to destroy...
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Easy CSS with CSS Hero
If you're an amateur website developer and you need to move things around on your Wordpress website it can be a challenge. If you're not too familiar with CSS then the 'code' side of things (which you were probably trying to avoid when you chose Wordpress as your...
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