WordPress is a great blogging platform, both powerful and lightweight, but performance can be improved with plugins. Good page performance will help retain existing subscribers and encourage new readers and traffic to your site.
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Fix: Synology Diskstation, System configuration is lost
How to re-install the system configuration on a Synology NAS device and troubleshoot some of the common problems encountered afterwords
Review: Five indispensable WordPress Plugins
Five of the best WordPress plugin's available. Updated July 2016
Fix: Unable To Locate WordPress Plugin Directory / Could not create directory / Installation Failed
If you own a wordpress blog chances are at some point or another you will have seen at least one of the following error messages: 'Could not create directory. /web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/' 'Unable To Locate WordPress Plug-in Directory' 'Installation Failed' This occurs when attempting to install a new theme, plugin or update your wordpress installation with the … Continue reading Fix: Unable To Locate WordPress Plugin Directory / Could not create directory / Installation Failed
Review: WordPress
I recently installed WordPress on my webserver, to replace the standard blogging engine from Synology which was slightly lacking in the feature and presentation department. Setup was a breeze, all i had to do was extract the wordpress directory to my webfolder, configure a new SQL database, and then run the setup script. I would … Continue reading Review: WordPress
Fix: Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!
Problem: When attempting to access PHP MyAdmin on my Synology DiskStation i get the following error: Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!Solution: Enable FTP access from the management UI and then open/install FileZilla. Connect to the DiskStation using admin credentials and navigate to the //diskstation/web/phpmyadmin folder/. Locate the 'config.inc.php' file right click and … Continue reading Fix: Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!
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