SiteGround already has a great guide for this process, but it assumes a bit of familiarity with their SiteTools dashboard. If you’d like a ‘whole-process’ guide, hopefully this page can provide that for you. After logging in to your SiteGround account, click your initials in the top-right corner, and click Manage Users. From the Users […]
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Clearing Caches
If your website loads, but just looks miserable (plain white background, not your fonts, etc), or is not showing edits you recently made on the site – it is probably an issue with an outdated cache in your website or on your web host. My experience with caches is primarily in WordPress sites, so this […]
Part of a collection on cache clearing Below How to clear LiteSpeed Cache How to clear WP Super Cache How to clear LiteSpeed Cache From the Admin bar of your WordPress site, click the LiteSpeed icon, and then click the Purge All button How to clear WP Super Cache From the Admin bar of your […]
Part of a collection on cache clearing WordPress sites using an Avada theme have at least a built-in cache with their theme, and other caching plugins may also be installed. Below How to clear Avada’s cache How to clear Avada’s cache First, click Avada and then Options from the left-side nav: Then select Performance from […]
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WordPress JS/CSS files 404’d
The site was reporting many JS/CSS files as 404 (this was with the MMR plugin, but I’m pretty sure that was coincidental). Switching to a twenty* theme with 0 plugins enabled didn’t result in any change, so it seemed like a caching issue. There was a normal install of WP Super Cache, as well as […]
This is a TL;DR of me trying to responsibly struggle against WordPress prompting for FTP credentials. This is my best compromise of security and usability when I want to support some in-browser updates and uploads, while also not sudo ing everything when working on the server.
Sometimes a report from Lighthouse will indicate you should preload a resource. Adding this (and replacing the href, and making sure you use the correct as= value) to your theme’s functions.php file will preload a resource. Note that in the case of fonts, the cross-origin attribute is required, even if the file is not actually […]
This may be an edge case that no one else has issues with, but here is my setup: cPanel SiteGround hosting Primary primary.tld site lives in the public_html/ folder, and many staging sites live in public_html/staging/. DNS points newdomain.staging.tld to SG IP address SG cPanel configured with subdomain pointing to specific folder inside staging/ The […]
Check if the version you want is easily accessible from the WP plugin directory Find the plugin Click Advanced View Scroll to the bottom, and see if the version you want is available If the version you want isn’t available, you can build it from the SVN repo Install a command line svn client like […]