Troubleshooting | Tips and Tricks

All-In-One-SEO Plugin – Fix for Page Title Rewrite Feature Not Working

May 10, 2013 | Categories: Wordpress

This is a short post to show you how to solve the page title rewrite not working issue with the All in One SEO plugin (this post should come in handy if you ever come across this issue). The Issue I use the following format in the SEO plugin settings for the WordPress post and page title: Page Title: %page_title% | %blog_title% Post Title: %post_title% | %blog_title% The SEO plugin kept failing to rewrite the title according to the above settings in [...]

How to Fix the Unable to create directory Error in WordPress

Mar 9, 2013 | Categories: Wordpress

If you are seeing any of the following errors when you try to upload/import media into WordPress's media library then this tutorial is for you. It will show you how to fix this annoying error. Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/ Is its parent directory writable by the server? Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2013/02 I personally faced this issue a while back and wrote a quick fix tutorial on this subject. However, a lot has [...]

Debugging JavaScript Code with Firebug

Dec 2, 2009 | Categories: Web Development

Firebug has become an indispensable tool for doing front-end development of web applications. However, most developers are unaware of some very useful features of this tool, especially when it comes to debugging JavaScript code. I've personally seen many of my colleagues relying on alert() function to reveal the flow of execution of their complex codes. In this article we'll look into some ways that Firebug can help you debug JavaScript and boost your productivity. Breakpoints Setting a [...]

Is the RSS Feed of your WordPress Blog Working in all Major browsers?

Oct 14, 2009 | Categories: Wordpress

This morning one of my site visitors was kind enough to email me saying that the RSS Feed of my blog wasn't working on Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers. Internet Explorer is well known for its issues so I wasn't that alarmed but my hearth jumped as soon as I double checked the RSS feed on Chrome and found that it was complaining too. In this article I am going to explain what the [...]

What Would You Do If Somehow You Lost all Your Blog’s Content?

Feb 26, 2009 | Categories: Tech Tips, Wordpress

I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else but this morning my blog Tips and Tricks HQ somehow disappeared from the face of this earth! The day started as usual... I woke up in the morning went to my office and started checking my emails and found out that I received an email from SiteUpTime (SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website at regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS [...]

How to Clean/Remove Not Found Errors from Google web master tools generated from translated versions

Jan 12, 2009 | Categories: Web Development

I installed a translator plugin on one of my WordPress blogs but the plugin wasn't working properly so I disabled it but two days later I found out that my Google web master tools account was reporting about 1100 'Not Found' errors under the 'Web crawl errors' section. All the errors were from translated versions of my blog. I used the 'robots.txt' file to fix this issue. If you don't know what a 'robots.txt' file is, [...]

How to Fix ‘Unable to create directory’ error when uploading image into WordPress

Dec 31, 2008 | Categories: Web Development

This article is a little outdated. Please check the updated version of the tutorial on how to fix the unable to create directory error. This post has a textual and video instructions showing how to fix the WordPress "Unable to create directory" error when uploading/inserting image into WordPress. I started getting the "Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2008/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?" error when uploading or inserting image into a WordPress post just after [...]

How to import WordPress SQL database backup file without having ‘create new database’ privileges in phpMyAdmin

Dec 7, 2008 | Categories: Web Development, Wordpress

In this article I have explained how you can import your WordPress SQL database backup file even when you do not have the 'create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin. This is particularly useful when you are trying to import the SQL database as part of transferring your site from one host (old-host.com) to another host (new-host.com) and your new host doesn't have the 'Create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin. In your phpMyAdmin page check for the [...]

How to fix WordPress.com Stats plugin showing zero (0) visitors!

Nov 17, 2008 | Categories: Web Development

This article explains how to fix WordPres.com Stats plugin when it doesn't show any statistics for your site or shows 0 visitors. (more...)

Apache Mod Security update, How to Fix ‘Error 406′ or ‘Not Acceptable’ issue

Nov 15, 2008 | Categories: Web Development

Few weeks ago I started having "Not Acceptable! Error 406" on one of my WordPress sites when trying to save a post or a page. I kept getting the following message when trying to save a post. (more...)