WordPress
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Set Up Cloudflare Turnstile on Your WordPress Contact Form
If your WordPress contact form is drowning in gibberish submissions — random Cyrillic text, crypto spam, or "SEO services" pitches — reCAPTCHA is the usual fix…
Contact Form 7 Not Sending Emails? Here's the Real Fix
Someone fills out your contact form, gets the green “Thank you for your message” confirmation, and then... nothing shows up in your inbox. Not in s…
Fix 'There Has Been a Critical Error' in WordPress
You update a plugin, refresh the page, and instead of your site you get one flat sentence: "There has been a critical error on this website." No stack trace, n…
Fix WordPress admin-ajax.php Errors (403/400/500)
If your WordPress dashboard has started throwing blank saves, a spinning "Loading..." that never finishes, or a red error banner mentioning admin-ajax.php, you…
Fix WordPress Application Passwords Returning 401
You generate a WordPress Application Password, plug it into Postman, a mobile app, or a Zapier/Make integration, and the very first request comes back 401 Unau…
Fix WordPress Block Editor Not Loading or Showing Blank
You open a post or page to edit it, and instead of the usual block editor with your content and the block inserter, you get a blank white panel, a spinning loa…
Fix WordPress REST API CORS Errors Blocking Your Frontend
You built a separate frontend — React, Next.js, Vue, whatever — and it's pulling content from your WordPress site through /wp-json/wp/v2/posts. Works fine when…
WooCommerce Order Stuck on Pending Payment? Fix Missing Webhooks
The customer's bank statement shows the charge. Stripe or PayPal shows the payment as successful. But in WooCommerce, the order just sits there in Pending paym…
Fix WordPress "The Loopback Request to Your Site Failed"
You open Tools > Site Health in wp-admin and see a red flag: "The loopback request to your site failed." Plugin updates hang, scheduled posts don't publish …
Fix WordPress "open_basedir Restriction in Effect" Errors
You open your error log — or worse, your homepage — and see a wall of red text like Warning: require_once(): open_basedir restriction in effect. Fi…