Posts tagged: bug

You have just moved a site to a new server, tested locally, and everything looks fine — but when you open the domain in a browser, you see a completely different site. Clearing the cache does not help. What is happening?

The Google Language Translator plugin (by Translate AI Multilingual Solutions) can produce a frustrating side effect: after a page is translated, some text that was originally uppercase or title-cased is displayed in lowercase. The issue is not a bug in the translation itself — it is a CSS text-transform conflict triggered by how the plugin…

The Intuitive Custom Post Order plugin lets you drag and drop posts in the admin list table to set a custom sort order. The order is saved to the menu_order column. If the drag-and-drop order looks correct in the dashboard but the front end still shows a different sequence, the most common culprit is a…

A common WordPress pagination bug causes the second (and subsequent) pages to display exactly the same posts as the first page. The fix is a single missing line in your WP_Query arguments.

A custom WP_Query loop with AJAX-based sorting works correctly for one post type but produces wrong order for another. The sort arguments look right. The most common cause is a third-party plugin — specifically one that overrides the default post order at the database level.

Contact Form 7 (CF7) uses the WordPress REST API to process submissions. If CF7 works in Chrome but silently fails in Firefox, a security plugin is almost certainly blocking anonymous REST API access — and Firefox may be stricter about the resulting error response than Chrome.

A layout looks perfect on localhost but is broken on the staging or production server. The HTML source looks valid. Git is in sync. The culprit is often invisible: a content editor copied text from another website and pasted hidden HTML tags — <div> wrappers, inline styles, or empty <p> elements — directly into an…

How to fix MySQL ERROR 1118 (42000): increase innodb_log_file_size In the previous article, we looked at how to import a large database into MySQL via the command line. During that process, you might hit another error: ERROR 1118 (42000) at line 354585: The size of BLOB/TEXT data inserted in one transaction is greater than 10%…

Double country dropdown on WooCommerce checkout SelectWoo is WooCommerce’s bundled Select2 wrapper that progressively enhances <select> fields into searchable dropdowns. When a theme or plugin initialises it twice on the same element, the Country field on the Checkout page renders as two overlapping dropdowns.