Ask Question The same customer that was trying to upload the problematic mp4 video, also ran into “WordPress: Unexpected response from the server. The file may have been uploaded successfully. Check in the Media Library or reload the page”. They were trying to upload mp4 files that were up to 400 megs in size. WordPress … Read more
We ran into an issue where a valid mp4 video file was being rejected with “Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.” during upload into the media library. No amount of cajoling could get WordPress to accept the file. Enter “Lord of the Files” plugin. It not only increases security for uploaded … Read more
Does your WordPress WooCommerce site keep saying enter address, while address has been entered already? You’ve probably used Checkout Field Editor to disable the country input field and are now confusing WooCommerce when it’s trying to process the order The validation message “Please enter an address to continue” normally shows when you are trying to … Read more
We absolutely love where WordPress is going with Gutenberg, but on a recent project we discovered that there’s currently one glaring absence in the list of blocks: The ability to lay out a grid of content. Enter GenerateBlocks. A clean, fast, minimal set of blocks that allow you to create incredibly flexible responsive grids. Unlike … Read more
Need to clean out a product file? Old crusty sale prices sitting around from 6 years ago? Run these mysql commands to make the nothing but a faint memory: DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price’;DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price_dates_to’;DELETE FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘_sale_price_dates_from’; As with all database manipulation. Make sure … Read more
We can’t believe it’s been over 9 years since our original “Low Cost or Free Stock Photography sites“. It’s definitely time to update it. After all these years, we’re still using Deposit Photos, but we’ve added a few more low-cost image repositories. Yay Images has become indispensable to us over the last year, and we’ve … Read more
To start with. You can’t. Not directly, anyway. There is no “drop table prefix_%;”, so stop looking. This seems to be the easiest workaround that we’ve found based on information shared here. So here’s how we did it. For reference, anywhere a word or a phrase is wrapped in greater than / less than signs, … Read more
We have a customer where all of their items are variable products. As you can imagine, there ends up being requests to change sizes, colors, or other variations. Once they’ve paid for the order, the status of the order gets set to “Processing” and WooCommerce won’t let you edit that order. Thanks to Nicola Mustone’s … Read more
Does it frustrate you when it seems that more and more plugins and themes feel like their particular offering is so incredibly critical that you HAVE to have it front-and-center on your admin bar? What happens when too many plugins start vying for that precious real estate? You end up with a cluttered, wrapping admin … Read more
From WordPress.org: WordPress 5.5 is the second major release of 2020 and aims to include a navigation menus block, automatic updates for plugins and themes, a block directory, XML sitemaps, lazy loading, and update Gutenberg to the latest release version as we continue to focus in 2020 on full site editing via Gutenberg. By far, … Read more