Author: dimitrios | Simplesteps for WordPress

The Usual suspects ( how to troubleshoot WordPress )

If you are new to WP, chances are that you will have issues with your site. Do not panic, you can ask for help or google the exact problem/error you have, most of the times you will find many resources with fixes. From my experience 90% of the cases can be diagnosed easily though.

First things to try :

Disable any caching/optimization plugins, clear your browser’s cache!
Disable all your plugins or the ones you do not need to view/use your site.
Switch to one of the default WP themes ( twenty fifteen, twenty nineteen etc)

If you do these and still have the same problem, like not able to view your site or create a post, here are more advanced ways to find the problem.

htaccess

WP log

Browser’s console log

If again you cannot find the culprit it is better to hire a professional : )

tip: always work on a staging site!

Creative WordPress themes

Croccante

Qusq Lite

HEYTHERE Lite

Hexa

New free plugins I tried

Google Reviews Widget

Yes it works, not so easy to find the Google keys + Ids etc but it works, thanks!

Kadence WooCommerce Email Designer

I had to edit a client’s email template and found this gem! Amazing work, great plugin

Reading more about optimization

The more I read and watch the more I realize how much bad information about the subject is circulating. If you are using a WordPress site the least you can do is

Prepare to spend some money
Plan first your content
Optimize your ready theme
Optimize your page builder code
Prepare to spend more money on testing

Here is a great video

How to update Xampp

Easy, you just rename the old xampp directory and install the new version. PhpMyAdmin works for each one so you can import/export your databases and your files! Doh! I was really worried about this for a long time and thought I should share my ‘solution’

Sites with JS exercises

The WP Gutenberg gallery block

I think this one needs a lot of work.

Testing the Gutenberg code block

is it this one?

You can download the Woojoo theme from here. It is NOT for production, I repeat it is NOT for production.

The theme uses JointsWP 4.0 ( float grid ), I just updated WP to 5.0.1 and WC to the latest version and found no issues. Basically I added what the WooCommerce documentation recommends to make your theme compatible with WooCommerce, that is in the functions.php and a stylesheet ( woojoo.css ) for this style ( nothing special )