Troubleshoot and Repair Your WordPress Website
1h 16mIntermediate2022-04-21
Authors

Joe Casabona
Course Developer, Founder of Creator Courses
Course details
WordPress is an incredibly powerful and convenient platform CMS for anything you want, from a blog to a full-on ecommerce shop. But owning your platform also comes with a few drawbacks—mainly, if something breaks, you're on the hook to find a fix yourself. In this course, WordPress expert Joe Casabona shares his repair manual for addressing problems with your site. He starts with preventative measures you should take before trouble strikes, and explains some tried-and-true troubleshooting methods. Of course, something will eventually need fixing, and Joe addresses some of the most common WordPress issues you’re likely to run into. He also covers fixes that go beyond working with your WordPress install that require working with your server, before delving into advanced problems like caching issues, emails being recognized as spam, and memory/runtime limit complications.
Skills covered
WordPressContent Management Systems (CMS)Web DevelopmentOpen SourceOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The pros and cons of running a WordPress site
- 02 - What you should know
- 03 - How the course works
1. Getting Ahead of Problems
- 04 - Preparing your WordPress site for problems
- 05 - Find the right hosting
- 06 - Backing up your site
- 07 - Securing your site
- 08 - Automatic updates
- 09 - Testing your site with a staging server
2. Common Troubleshooting Steps
- 10 - Disabling plugins to find the problem
- 11 - Moving to a default theme
- 12 - How to use recovery mode
- 13 - Down for everyone, or just me
- 14 - Reverting updates with WP Rollback
- 15 - Testing with a different WordPress install or server
3. Common Problems and Solutions
- 16 - The dreaded white screen of death
- 17 - Stuck in maintenance mode
- 18 - Issues with file uploads
- 19 - Pretty URLs not working properly and other random 404 errors
- 20 - Using a redirect plugin for actually broken links
- 21 - Recovering lost changes with Revision History
- 22 - Why do blocks keep needing to be recovered
4. Problems That Require Working with Your Server
- 23 - General web server errors - the 400s
- 24 - General web server errors - the 500s
- 25 - How to fix the site insecure error with an SSL certificate
- 26 - How to fix mixed content errors
- 27 - Error establishing a database connection
- 28 - Unable to write to a directory, or update themes plugins
5. Advanced Problems
- 29 - Unable to deliver emails emails going to spam
- 30 - General caching issues (types of cache)
- 31 - Cannot modify header error
- 32 - Site running out of memory
- 33 - Execution limit exceeded
- 34 - Using WP-CLI to solve your WordPress problems
Conclusion
- 35 - Next steps
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