1- Set Up Site Title, Tagline, and Timezone

First change the site title, tagline, and timezone settings. Simply head over to Settings » General page and change these settings.

The Title and the tagline are one of the essential elements that identify your website, and tell people and search engines what your website is about.
The Title works as the name of your website. It’ll appear in the title bar of the browser and is usually (depends on the theme) displayed in your site’s header.
The Tagline is a short description that explains what your site is about. Think of it as a slogan that completes the Site Title. It appears next to the Title in the browser’s title bar.
Replace the default tagline “Just another WordPress site” with your tagline.

2 – Enable User Registration

You need to decide if you are going to have a multi-author blog.
To allow this, tick off the “Anyone can register” box, and set the “New User Default Role” as “Contributor”.
If you don’t want people to register, don’t tick the “Anyone can register” box.

3 – Set WordPress Discussion/Comments Settings

Go to Settings » Discussion.
Most of the settings are self-explanatory here.

4 – WordPress Media Settings

This setting will greatly improve the way WordPress handles images.
By default, WordPress create multiple sizes for every uploaded image. This is not a good practice. This will load up your blog with unnecessary files and your blog will quickly become bloated.
Go to Settings » Media, and use the below screenshot to configure the proper settings:

Also, add a plugin which compresses images as they’re uploaded.

5 – Set the WordPress Address URL and Site Address URL

The WordPress address can be with or without the “www” bit. It’s crucial that what you choose here is the same as your preferred setting in Google Search Console.
For example, if you choose “yourdomain.com” without the “www” bit, and someone tries to navigate to “www.yourdomain.com”, it will redirect to “yourdomain.com”.
In Google Search Console, you need to make sure that you configure the preferred domain to be the same as what you configure in your WordPress admin dashboard, in this case “yourdomain.com”. Google will then display that preferred domain in the search results.
The site address URL should be different if you want your WordPress installation to be different from your website’s actual home page.

6 – Configure the Front Page Settings

The home page of your new WordPress site can be either a custom made page, or it can simply be a summary of the latest blog posts.

When you’ve just installed WordPress, you won’t have any content so this setting isn’t all that important yet. But it’s good to know that this setting exists.
Once you have your home page designed and created then you can revisit this setting and select the Front page from here.

7 – Change the Blog Permalink Structure

The permalink settings determine what the URL structure will look like for your permalinks and archives.
For example, you can choose to have the day, month and year included in the blog post URL. Or you can have a numeric value instead of the blog title in the URL.

The best option? Just the post name. No dates or numeric values. Unless you find the date to be useful for your readers, there is no benefit to have this included in the URL.
Numeric values are even worse, because they don’t mean anything. In addition, the search engines will frown upon it too.
In general, search engines like short and descriptive URLs.

8 – Set Your Timezone, Date and Time Format

In Settings » General you’ll find the options for Timezone, Date and Time Format.
Choose a city in the same timezone as you are or a UTC option if you don’t find your city. Now your posts’ time will be synchronized with your actual timezone and your posts scheduling will work as you expect.
Date and Time format settings control the way they’re displayed in your site. They usually appear as the metadata of your posts and tell the visitors when were the posts published or updated. You can choose one of the preformatted options or generate a format of your own.

9 – Install a WordPress Theme and Uninstall Unused Themes

By default, a WordPress installation comes with several free themes. One of these free themes will be the one that is activated.
Choosing a theme is an important step because a theme has a huge impact on the success of your WordPress site and blog. A theme should match your expectations in regards to look and feel. A theme should be a good reflection of your brand. In addition, a theme should be well-programmed and regularly updated.
You can either keep using a free theme, or you can decide to purchase a premium theme. It’s important to delete any themes that you’re not using, as they can make your website a lot heavier. Just like with plugins, only use what you really need. In other words, you should really just have one theme installed.

• Install and Activate Your Theme

When using an external theme, one you downloaded or purchased outside of the WordPress themes repository, you’ll need to upload it by following one of these options:

1. a. Upload through WordPress: From the WP menu go to Appearance » Themes » Add New » Upload Theme. Then, choose the [theme-name].zip file.
2. b. Upload through FTP: Unzip the [theme-name].zip file and upload the theme folder using your preferred FTP client into the wp-content/themes at your domain.

Once you have uploaded the theme click Activate (Appearance » Themes » Your uploaded theme).
Another option is to look for a theme in the WordPress Theme Directory, which has a collection of themes you’ll be able to install right from your dashboard.
Navigate to Appearance » Themes » Add New, and you’ll see the available themes from the repository. Just select the one you like and click Install.

• Remove Unused Themes

WordPress comes with its own default themes known as the Twenty-Something series. After you install and activate the theme you’re going to use, do not leave other themes occupying the space in your install folder. Delete all other themes.
Go to Appearance » Themes, click on the theme you want to remove. It’ll open a lightbox, and on the bottom right corner you’ll find the Delete link.

10 – Upload a Favicon

A favicon is an icon that represents your site across the web and devices. It’s a part of your site’s visual identity and helps people to easily and quickly recognize your website.
Since WordPress 4.3, you can add a favicon (or a Site Icon) from the WordPress dashboard.
Go to Appearance » Customize » Site Identity tab. Click on the select file button and upload the image you want to use as site icon.
According to WordPress, icons must be square, and at least 512 pixels wide and tall.

11 – Remove Sample Content

When you install WordPress on your domain, you’ll notice it comes with a sample post (the famous “Hello World!”) and a sample page created. That’s so you can already see something in your site instead of seeing it kind of empty and broken. But we never use these sample content.
Instead of leaving them there and taking a chance on forgetting they even exist when your site is ready, go and trash them right away.
To remove the sample post: go to Posts and hover on the Hello World post. You should see the Trash link. Click on it, and then go to “Trash”, hover the same post and hit Delete Permanently.

To remove the sample page: go to Pages and hover on the Sample Page page. You should see the Trash link. Click on it, and then go to “Trash”, hover the same post and hit Delete Permanently.
Lastly, visit the Comments page and then delete the default comment.

12 – Add Categories and Change the Default One

The default posts category when you install WordPress is called Uncategorized.
If you don’t set a specific category for the posts you create, they will automatically be archived under the default category.
To change the default category name go to Posts » Categories, hover on Uncategorized and click Edit.
Don’t forget to change its slug as well.
If you already have some category names in mind then create them now. That way you’ll be able to plan the editorial categories in advance, and won’t need to figure them out while writing a new post and the time to assign it to a category comes.

For that, go to Posts » Categories and add them right there. If you want, you can write a description for each one. Some themes will display that description in the archive page, and it’s also a good thing for your SEO.
After that, go to Settings » Writing page. Here you will see the default category option, you can go ahead and select the new category you created earlier.

Finally, you can go to Posts » Categories page and delete the ‘Uncategorized’ category.

13 – Change Default Widgets on Sidebar

Most themes usually come with at least one widgetized area that is usually the main sidebar displayed next to your posts. Other themes may come with more sections for widgets like the footer.
By default, WordPress places some widgets on the main sidebar: Search, Archives, Recent Comments, Recent Posts and Categories widgets.
You can decide if you are going to keep these widgets or what exactly you want to put there. For that, navigate to Appearance » Widgets and change the default settings.

14 – Create a Custom Menu

By default, most themes will take the existing pages on your site and place their links in the navigation area in your site. But this is not the prettiest way to build a navigation menu for your website.
The Menus screen found under Appearance » Menus enables a user to create custom navigation menus and place them in different locations over the site.

• Creating a Custom Menu instead of leaving the default page links in your header will let you:

• Drag, order, reorder and rename menu items.
• Create sub-menus.
• Create menu items that are not pages, like custom links, posts and categories.
• Use, afterwards, the same menu on different places, like widgets.
• Customize the menu items by playing with the Link Target, CSS Classes, Description.

15 – Change Default Admin User

Make sure you change the admin username to a unique one. Leaving the admin username may be disastrous for the security of your site.
Also change your password to a more complex one.

16 – Complete Your Profile

Make your WordPress profile match who you are.
Go to Users » Your Profile. There you’ll be able to enable/disable the Visual Editor when writing posts and pages, to select an Admin Color Scheme, to decide if you want to show or not the Toolbar when viewing your site.
You can fill in your details and decide how to show them.
Insert your first and last names, and then select a “Display name publicly as…” option.
This will apply to every place in your site where your name is displayed: author archive page, author name in posts, user name in forums, etc.
You can also add your Contact Info and a Biographical Info. Depending on the theme, these may show up in different locations.

17 – Get a Gravatar

Your name, contact info and bio are set up. But what about having a profile picture?
WordPress uses a specific type of avatar called Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar). Gravatars follow you around the web and automatically appear when you post a comment on a WordPress site or sign up on a WordPress site with your email account.
To create your Gravatar go to gravatar.com. You’ll be able to register an account based on your email, and upload an avatar to be associated with the account.

Depending on the theme, Gravatars may be displayed next to your author info in a post you wrote, on a comment you made or a forum topic you’ve responded.

18 – Add Other Authors

Navigate to Users » Add New and create the profiles for more authors. You’ll be required to fill in Username and Email.
A Password will be automatically generated for you.
In the same screen, you can decide if you want to send the new user an email notification about their account and the role he/she is going to have in your website.
Remember that the email address you set is the one that brings the person’s Gravatar, so you may want to use for your authors the email that they use for their account at gravatar.com. Or you can use another email address but then remind them to add that email to their Gravatar account.

19 – Delete Unused Default Plugins

WordPress comes with two already installed plugins: Hello Dolly and Akismet. Delete the Hello Dolly.
Sometimes when getting a WordPress installation from your hosting service, there might be other plugins installed already. Make sure you check them out and see if you really need them. If not, remove them from your site.

20 – Install Anti-Spam Plugins

Spam comments can be quite problematic. Most of them contain links to malicious websites known for distributing malware. Spam comments can affect your search rankings and your website’s reputation.
You can enable “comment moderation” in WordPress to prevent any comment appearing without approval. However, as the quantity of spam grows you will be spending considerable time moderating comments. You can avoid it by installing some useful plugins.
Akismet
Akismet is a plugin that checks your comments to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your site’s “Comments” admin screen.
It comes already installed with your WordPress installation. You’ll need an Akismet.com API key to use it which is free for personal sites. Activate the plugin and fill in your API key.
Antispam Bee
Another popular solution to fight spam. This free plugin will help you block unwanted comments on your site.

21 – Install SEO Plugins

Yoast SEO
One of the best and most complete Search Engine Optimization solutions for WordPress. The Yoast SEO plugin guides you through some of the settings needed in order to optimize your site. It’ll help you write better content that cares for keywords and readability. It’ll also generate a sitemap of your site.
Google XML Sitemaps
If you didn’t install Yoast SEO or if your SEO plugin doesn’t automatically creates a sitemap, install Google XML Sitemaps. This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your site by understanding its structure. In addition, it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post.

22 – Install Analytics Plugins

Google Analytics
Every site, as little as it can be, needs statistics. Google Analytics is a free service that tracks all sorts of insights about your website’s visitors, so you can improve wherever necessary to get better results and keep them coming back.
First, create an account at Google Analytics, and then add Google Analytics code on the website.
if you are not using a custom developed theme, then you can get a plugin that will install the code for you. These are few options:
– Google Analytics by MonsterInsights
– Google Analyticator
– Google Analytics

23 – Install Cache Plugins

Caching is the best way to optimize WordPress sites.
WordPress is a CMS that serves dynamic websites; every time a page is loaded the server needs to process it all over again. That means the page is going to consume a specific amount of server resources which will affect the load speed, and the amount of pages that can be served at any specific time.
When you use caching the server returns a “static page” for the requested URL, which uses way less resources and improves both the loading speed and the amount of pages per minute you can serve.
Unless your site runs on a server that is already using some way of caching and even then, plugins are the fastest way to get started with caching.

Some popular cache plugins are as follows:

• WP Super Cache (WP Super Cache) is the most popular option between cache plugins. It’s pretty straightforward to setup and has really good speed results (achieved by the technologies it uses to cache the pages). On the downside, the most optimized part of this can’t be used for logged in users. If you don’t need to present content to logged in users, this plugin might be the one to go with.
• W3 Total Cache (W3 Total Cache) has similar performance results than WP Super Cache but with a much more complicated setup environment but it has a lot of advanced options that will let you modify almost everything in the way it works.
• WP Rocket (WP Rocket) (Paid one) is the one of these three that has the fastest results according to several benchmarking tests. The setup is extremely easy and -probably as a consequence of being a paid one- it has a really good support team behind.

24- Install Security Plugins

WordPress itself is a very secure platform. However, there’re some plugins that can help in adding some extra security to your site. And if unfortunately your site gets hacked and you need to recreate it, it’s always a good idea to have regular backups of your database nearby.

• The Wordfence (WordFence) security plugin provides free enterprise-class WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware. The plugin scans your site and alerts you quickly if your site is compromised.
• All In One WP Security (All In One WP Security) is a free, comprehensive, user-friendly, all in one WordPress security and firewall plugin. It reduces security risk by checking for vulnerabilities and by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques.

25 – Install BackUp Plugins

• WordPress Backup To DropBox – This free plugin keeps your WordPress website, its media and database backed up to Dropbox on a regular basis. You can choose a day, a time and how often you wish your backup to be performed, and where it’ll be saved within Dropbox.
• BackupBuddy – It allows you to easily schedule daily, weekly, or monthly backups. It can also automatically store your backups in Dropbox, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, Stash (their cloud service), and even email it to yourself.
• UpdraftPlus -UpdraftPlus is a free WordPress backup plugin. It allows you to create complete backup of your WordPress site and store it on the cloud or download to your computer.

26 – Install a Social Media Plugin

Whenever you publish new content, you want to make it easy for people to share. There are several social sharing plugins you can install.

• Sassy Social Share – Sassy Social Share is an easy to use social media plugin for WordPress with tons of options. It comes with support for many different social media websites, and you can add buttons in post content as well as a sticky floating social menu.
• Shared Counts – Shared Counts is a fast and easy to use social media plugin for WordPress. There are multiple button styles, and you can choose where to show the button (before or after the content or manually).
• AddtoAny – AddtoAny is a social sharing tool also available as a WordPress plugin. It offers many social media platforms, floating and standard social sharing bars, and a universal sharing menu.

27 – Setup Related Posts Plugin

The related posts plugin will help keep visitors on your website longer, by showing them related content.
As you start creating more unique content they will browse the related posts. This in turn will improve your bounce rate.
You can use Related posts for WordPress (https://wordpress.org/plugins/related-posts-for-wp/) or WordPress Related Posts (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/)

28 – Internal Link Checker

We need to make sure that links in blogs are not broken, otherwise it can impact SEO badly. There are plugins like Broken Link Checker, which can automate this process.
It scans your blog, and if it detects any type of broken links or images. It notifies you via your dashboard and email. You can then take action and correct the issue.

29 – Setup a Contact Form

The visitors of your website may want to contact you. So, make it simple for people to reach out to you.
Contact Form 7 is a free and popular WordPress plugin with more than a million downloads. You can use it to create a simple contact form.
The Contact Form 7 allows you to create fields like email addresses, names, subjects, and messages. You can even add captcha to prevent spammers from filling the form.

30 – Optimize Images

High-resolution images have a major impact on load time. They slow down page speed because of their large file size. It is advisable to reduce the image size without losing the quality. Optimizing images also boosts your SEO.
To solve this issue, Image Optimization plugins come to rescue. They compress images, thus optimizing them. To name a few of them: EWWW Image Optimizer, WP-Smush, Short Pixel Image Optimizer, Imagify.

31 – Brand Up Your Login Page

It is a good practice to put your brand on Login page. It gives a more professional look to the site.

There are many ways to do that:

1. With a plugin: Uber Login Logo or Custom Login may be good options.
2. Through custom code: Learn about it here.

32 – Modify Your Footer

Depending on the theme you choose to use, you can modify your footer.
You can add copyright date, authors, company name as well as links to your affiliate disclaimer and privacy page.

33 – Setup Google Webmasters

This is a very useful tool to see if your website has any type of crawl errors and security issues.
Google will even show you how many pages are indexed in the search engines.
Head on over to Google Webmasters and create an account.
You will be asked to verify your domain to prove you are the owner. Choose your method of verification and follow the prompts.

34 – Add RSS to Feedburner

Really Simple Syndication or RSS is way to syndicate your content. This makes it easy for people to read it in their mailboxes, feed reader or other devices.
You can use Google Reader, it’s a free service and extremely easy to setup.

35 – Create Your About Me Page

When you start blogging no one knows who you are. It’s up to you to show them, this is where the about me page comes in.
Don’t forget to add some pictures of yourself. People want to get to know you and find out if you’re trustworthy.

36 – Create A Privacy Page

The privacy page allows people know what you are going to do with their data. A privacy page is important to add to your WordPress blog.
It is now more important after the European Union’s GDPR law.
There are several plugins you can use to create a terms of service and privacy page, for example you can use this free plugin. After you create the pages, delete the plugin as you won’t need it anymore.
Don’t forget to write a blog disclaimer for your blog, so you can be protected legally.

37 – Install Login Limit Plugin

Another great thing you can do for your WordPress blog is to install the Limit Login Plugin. This plugin will block hackers from continually attempting to login to your site.
It will lock out anyone who is unsuccessful of logging into your account after a certain number of times.

38 – Create A Child Theme

Before you start making any real changes to your WordPress blog, be sure you create a child theme. A child theme will protect your WordPress blog from losing any of the CSS styles you add to it.
Some examples of the child theme creator plugins are: One Click Child Theme and the Child Theme Creator.

39 – Start Building Your Email List

Anyone who’s been online for awhile will tell you that their biggest regret is that they didn’t build their email list right away.
Don’t wait until you start getting traffic. If you start creating great content, you will eventually start getting visitors and you want to give them the option of signing up to your email list.
Some of the Email list plugins are GetResponse, ConvertKit and MailChimp.

40 – Change Or Delete Post Revisions

By default WordPress is setup to keep all your post revisions. It is a good practice to delete these revisions.
You can use plugins like, Better Delete Revision or Revision Control.

41 – Let The Search Engines Know Your Blog Is Live

Keep the search engine visibility off while you are Installing the WordPress, however when you are ready to publish then turn it back on to let the Google Bots know your content is ready to be crawled.

Head on over to your Settings » Reading and uncheck the box when you’re ready to go live.

42 – Populate WordPress Ping List

Whenever you publish a new post or update existing posts, WordPress automatically notify the site of your ping list which helps search engines pick up and index your posts faster.
Some important ping sites are as below:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

Login to your WordPress dashboard. Go to Writing under settings tab and scroll down to update services and add all the above ping list.

43 – Disable Directory Browsing

WordPress blog by default has the Directory Browsing enabled. Directory browsing allows you to see folders and subfolders for your website.
If Directory Browsing is enabled hackers can find a way to your blog by browsing your directory looking for a way to sneak in through a plugin or theme which you have installed.
While some web hosting companies disables Directory Browsing by default. Your web hosting might keep this option up to you.
To test it, enter the below link into your browser. Be sure to use your domain name.
https://Yourdomainname.com/wp-includes/
If you see a list of directory files then you need to disable Directory browsing.
To disable directory browsing all you need is to edit your “.htaccess” file and add the below line code

Options -Indexes
Take a copy of your .htaccess file before you edit it

44 – Test your website on Mobile screens and various other screen sizes

For good user experience and good SEO score, it is important that your WordPress website is mobile responsive and work well on all the screen sizes.
Test your website on real mobile phone and other devices as much as possible.
Also please use screen simulator to cover wide range of screen sizes. For example, you can download a screen simulator extension “Screen Resolution Tester” from chrome web store and run your website on various screen sizes.

45 – Enable CDN for your Website

CDN helps you in storing your content on country specific servers. This speeds up loading time for your website.
You can try to activate CloudFlare for your website. It is one of the best CDN available today.

If you name the market leaders among the Content Management Systems (CMS), WordPress occupies the foremost position, accounting for over 30 percent of the world’s websites.

It’s also one among the favorites of the business owners and website developers due to its easy-peasy usage and straightforward customization.

But if you are not an expert WordPress developer and try your hands on it, you might come across some mild or grave WordPress errors which hinder the running of your website.

Do not panic if you ever come across such a thing. There are chances that what has startled you today might have been stumbled upon by someone else too in the past.

And the good news is, you can easily get a great fix to almost any WordPress Error that you commit due to its vast online community that is always ready to assist you.

Here is a list of some of the most frequent WordPress website errors that people come across, with their easiest fixes:

1. 502 Bad Gateway Errors

WordPress’ ‘502 Bad gateway’ error can be caused due to many reasons such as:

• A server taking too long to process a user’s request
• Attack of immense website traffic
• Ineffectively coded WordPress plugin or theme

And to fix this common error you just take any or some of the measures:

• Reload the website
• Update WordPress theme or Plugin
• Clear The Cache
• Find Errors in hosting server

2. 503 Service Unavailable Error

This kind of error is normally caused due to a non-responsive PHP script. Sometimes, either WordPress theme, a plugin or a custom code snippet could be unresponsive, leading to a 503 error on your website.

Besides, an extreme load on the server could also lead to this error.

Though it gets fixed on its own after just a few minutes, you may need to troubleshoot your website and fix it.

3. 504 Gateway Timeout Error

When you request something to your server and it does not connect with the upstream server after being processed through a firewall or a proxy, it generally causes a 504 error.

This error can appear in a number of forms such as HTTP 504, Gateway Timeout 504 error, or simply 504 error.

And to fix it, here are some steps that you can follow:

• Reload your website
• Turn off the VPN
• Turn Off The Firewall
• Disable The Network Proxy
• Change The DNS Servers

4. 403 Forbidden Error

The ‘403 Forbidden Error’ in WordPress is caused when the server does not allow you to access a specific page and generally displays some message such as:

403 Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access ‘/’ on this server

To correct the error 403, you need to check the file permissions and resolve any incorrect file permissions, correct badly coded security plugins and check the server configurations as well.

5. 404 Error

Error 404 is the most common error you would encounter on a WordPress website. And the most common cause which leads to this error is permalink setting issues.

To resolve this, you need to reconfigure the permalink settings or update the rewrite rules.

6. Error 413- Request Entity Too Large

If you upload too large files in the media library, some theme or plugin files for which your server is not configured appropriately, it would stop you in the process. Besides, it displays Error 413, stating that the requested entity is too large to be uploaded.

To resolve the trouble, you may need to:

• Increase the file upload size limit from the Functions File
• Increase the file upload size limit from .htaccess File
• Upload your file manually via FTP

7. Error 429- Too Many Requests

This error is more of a preventive measure to protect the server. It is caused when either a user, a bot or a script makes lots of requests to the server.

And if you do not configure it properly, it may prevent the APIs and the search engines from crawling the website.

However, there’s an easy fix to this. You just need to find the code, service, or plugin which might be misbehaving and correct the same.

8. Password Reset Key Error

Due to the password reset key error, the login page of your website would keep refreshing and it does not allow saving the password reset key.

The error is caused due to low WordPress hosting account disc space and to fix it, just delete some non-required files from the website.

9. Missing A Temporary Folder Error

This kind of error is often caused when WordPress fails to access the folder where PHP stores the temporary files. And this may also lead to hurdles in uploading the media, plugins, and installing the theme etc.

And there’s an easy fix to this. Just define a temporary WordPress folder for the use or you can also ask the WordPress hosting provider to fix it.

10. WordPress Syntax Error

When you add a code snippet into your WordPress and happen to miss anything, it often leads to PHP parse error or a syntax error and may execute a statement on the website such as:

Parse error- syntax error, unexpected end in /public_html/site1/wp-content/themes

The error message generally indicates something unexpected which is found in the code. And to fix it, you need to correct the syntax, some missing bracket, or remove an unexpected character from the code.

11. WordPress Internal Server Error:

The internal server error, also known as ‘500 Internal Server Error’ is caused due to some server troubles which the server is not able to detect. Confusing right?

Well, while you do not know the exact pathway to follow to get rid of the error, here are some solutions to which you could offer a shot:

• Check the .htaccess file which could be corrupted
• Increase the memory limit in PHP
• Deactivate all the plugins
• Re-upload the core files
• Get help from your website hosting provider

12. WordPress Secure Connection Error:

You get an ‘update management system’ with the WordPress which ensures checking the updates on WordPress.org. While your website lacks a connection with the WordPress.org website due to any reasons, it can lead to a secure connection error.

To tackle this trouble, you may need to check a number of other issues such as:

• Hosting and server issues
• Localhost Secure Connection error

13. WordPress Login Page Redirect or Refresh Issues:

If you try to login the WordPress dashboard and it gets redirected back to the same page, your website is certainly facing an issue.

To resolve this, here are some of the steps that can be followed:

• Clear the cookies which can resolve the login troubles
• Change your theme back to default
• Deactivate all the plugins
• Update your site’s URL
• Delete the .htaccess File

14. WordPress ‘Another Update In Process’ Error

If you initiate an update when another one is already in process, you would see an error. Due to this, WordPress sets up and update lock option which usually disappears after a little while.

However, you can fix the issue manually too by using a plugin or using phpMyAdmin which directly runs a query in the WordPress database.

15. WordPress ‘Error Establishing Database Connection’

As obvious, your website is not able to establish a connection with the database and this is normally caused due to:

• A user modifying the database credentials
• Unresponsive database server
• Corrupted database

As a solution, you can check issues with the WP-Config file or check your Web Host for errors.

16. WordPress ‘Memory Exhausted’ Error

The error is caused when the allocated memory size is exhausted due to a WordPress plugin or a script.

Due to this, it may display an error code such as:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2348617 bytes) in /home4/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php

However, you do not need to worry about this. Just increase the PHP Memory limit in WordPress and your website would start working as good as it did previously.

17. Missing Buttons and White Text Errors

If you find some buttons from the WordPress visual editor missing and there shows only blank white spaces, this can be caused when the concatenated JavaScript stops working or missing TinyMCE files.

This normally one of the minor errors and could be fixed either by clearing the browser cache, replacing TinyMCE Scripts, fixing the wp-config.

18. WordPress ‘Locked Out Of Admin Panel’ Error

You may get locked out of the admin panel when:

• You forget your password and also forget the access to the recovery mail
• A code or plugin tries to make some change in the admin section
• Your website gets hacked

19. Image Upload Errors in WordPress:

If all the images in your website have gone missing and you just see a broken image placeholder, this is normally due to inappropriate directory and file upload permission while installing the WordPress.

So was your site working fine enough previously and encountered the trouble suddenly?

This could be a case when your hosting provider updates the same and this leads to a change in file permissions.

Besides, if your website is on a shared hosting and a user installs some unreliable plugin or theme, the script can always cause a change in file permission.

20. WordPress ‘Mail Not Sending’ Error

This kind of error is usually caused when your WordPress website uses shared hosting and the hosting providers either disable or limit the email sending functionality to prevent any kind of server abuse.

In case you experience any such things, you can use the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) to send your emails.

While there are hordes of SMTP available to assist you, Gmail and MailGun are the most preferred and highly reliable ones.

21. RSS Feed Error In WordPress

RSS feed errors are mostly caused due to a poor RSS format, including a missing line break or an extra tab which breaks the RSS feed and displays the error in a specific format.

And again, you can either fix the WordPress RSS feed errors with the help of plugins or by the manual method.

22. Content Error In WordPress

Content errors may be myriad in types and are mostly caused due to improper HTTPs/SSL settings on the WordPress website.

And while the content errors do not affect the functionality of the website, they may affect the user experience or SEO efforts towards it.

To resolve the content errors, get to know the resources which load insecurely and ensure to get their URLs fixed. There are a number of plugins available for this or this can also be done manually.

23. ‘Failed To Open Stream’ WordPress Error

If the WordPress is not able to load some file declared in the website code, it normally comes up with ‘Failed to Open Stream’ WordPress error.

Due to this, either the website keeps on loading without any message or displays some message of grave error on the screen.

This kind of error occurs due to reasons such as the non-existence of any such file or directory, failed operation, or denied permission etc.

24. WordPress ‘Fails To Stay Logged In Error’:

In order to validate a session of login, WordPress normally sets some WordPress URL cookie in your browser settings. And if you access the WordPress from some distinct URL, It would fail to authenticate the session.

The simplest of fixes to this very common trouble is to ensure having a similar URL in the WordPress Address fields and your Site Address.

In other words, you either choose a URL with or without ‘www’ in both the fields.

25. Facebook Issues On WordPress

Facebook may not be able to guess the correct thumbnail image and there could be a number of reasons to this.

For instance, when there are lots of images with the og:image tag where all the other images are larger than your featured image.

To fix such an issue, you can perform any of the following actions:

• Upload the thumbnail image manually
• Inform Facebook explicitly to use your chosen thumbnail
• Use the Facebook Debug Tool

Besides all these, there could be some other minor WordPress issues too. If you too face any of these or some others, let us know about how these were resolved and the methods you used.

Your queries and feedbacks are always welcome on our website.