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"Error Establishing a Database Connection" in WordPress, Causes and Solution. In this article we shall look how to resolve the "Error Establishing a Database Connection".... 404 Not Found The requested page does not exist.WHAT IT MEANSThe server could not find that address.IF IT IS... 500 Internal Server Error The server encountered something it could not handle.WHAT IT MEANSA general failure. The specific... 503 Service Unavailable The server cannot handle the request at present.WHAT IT MEANSTemporary unavailability. Different... 508 Resource Limit Is Reached Your account hit a plan allowance.WHAT IT MEANSNot a fault. Your account reached its CPU, memory,... A Database Checklist Everything that matters.SETUPOne database per application One user per database, with all... A Plugin or Extension Broke Everything Recovering without a full restore.THE SYMPTOMThe site was working, you installed or updated... A Practical Database Task Reference Common jobs and where they are covered.TAKING A BACKUPcPanel > Backup > Partial Backups, or... A Summary: Running Software on Your Hosting Everything that matters, briefly.BEFORE INSTALLINGCheck requirements against your plan Check the... Adding a Contact Form to Your WordPress Site Publishing your email address invites spam. A contact form is safer and easier for visitors.... Adding Custom Code Safely Functions and snippets.WHERE CODE GOESA child theme's functions file, or a code snippets... Adding Users and Understanding WordPress Roles Give every person their own account and the smallest role that lets them do their job. Sharing... Adjusting PHP Settings with MultiPHP INI Editor This tool changes PHP limits per domain without editing files by hand.BASIC MODEIn cPanel open... After Ordering: A First-Week Checklist Work through this in the first week and most later problems do not happen.DAY ONESave the welcome... Alternatives to Cron Jobs Other ways to schedule work.EXTERNAL CRON SERVICESServices that request a URL on a... Another update is currently in progress WordPress thinks an update is running.WHAT IT MEANSA lock left behind by an interrupted... Are you sure you want to do this? A WordPress security check failed.WHAT IT MEANSA nonce, the token WordPress uses to verify that a... Auditing Content with Queries Understanding what your site actually contains.USEFUL AUDITSHow many published posts, pages and... Auditing Your Plugins The regular review.HOW OFTENTwice a year, and before any major change.WHAT TO DOList every active... Avoiding Plugin Overlap Two plugins doing one job.WHERE IT HAPPENSCaching: two caching plugins conflict badlySEO: two SEO... Backing Up a WordPress Site Completely Everything a WordPress site needs.WHAT MUST BE INCLUDEDThe database, which holds posts, pages,... Backing Up an Online Store A shop's database changes constantly, which changes what a backup needs to be.WHY IT IS... Backing Up with a WordPress Plugin The usual approach for WordPress sites.WHAT TO LOOK FORScheduled automatic backups Remote... Backup Applications and Tools Software specifically for protecting your site.WHAT TO LOOK FORScheduled automatic backupsRemote... Backups Are Not Version Control Two different tools for two different problems.WHAT BACKUPS DOLet you return to a previous state... Backups Stopped Running and Nobody Noticed The silent failure.HOW IT HAPPENSCron was never configured, so the schedule never ran The remote... Blank White Page Nothing displays at all.WHAT IT MEANSPHP stopped and errors are not being displayed, which is... Blocking Bad Traffic at the Application Level Reducing load from requests you do not want.IDENTIFYING ITThe access log. Extracting and counting... Blocking Brute-Force Attacks on wp-login.php Automated bots hammer /wp-login.php and /xmlrpc.php on every WordPress site on the internet. Even... Blocking Unwanted IP Addresses with IP Blocker IP Blocker stops specific addresses or ranges from reaching your sites at all.BLOCKING AN... Booking and Appointment Scripts Taking appointments online.WHAT THEY NEEDAvailability management Time zone handling, if you serve... Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance The site is stuck in maintenance mode.WHAT IT MEANSWordPress creates a file called .maintenance... Building Pages That Work on Phones Mobile layout.THE STARTING POINTMost of your visitors are on phones.Design for that first, not as... Building Your First Business Website What to build, and what to leave out.WHAT YOU ACTUALLY NEEDA homepage saying what you do, for... Caching on a VPS Multiple layers, each solving a different problem.OPCODE CACHINGOPcache stores compiled PHP so it... Cannot modify header information in wp-config or functions Whitespace before or after the PHP tags.WHAT IT MEANSOutput was sent before WordPress could set... Changing Credentials After a Compromise What to change.WHAT TO CHANGEHosting account password Site administrator passwords, all of them... Changing Your cPanel Password Your cPanel password protects every file, database and mailbox on your account. Change it... Changing Your PHP Version How to do it safely.BEFORE ANYTHINGTake a full backup.CHECK COMPATIBILITYConfirm your... Changing Your PHP Version for WordPress Newer PHP versions are faster and more secure. Older ones are eventually retired and stop... Changing Your Theme Safely Switching without breaking things.WHAT CHANGESAppearance Widget areas and menus, which may not... Checking a Theme Before You Commit Due diligence.WHAT TO CHECKLast updated date Active installations Recent reviews, particularly... Checking Cron Jobs and Scheduled Tasks Where persistence hides.WHY THIS MATTERSAttackers use scheduled tasks to reinstate themselves... Checking Whether Your Cron Job Is Working Verification.WHY VERIFYA cron job that is not running produces no error. Things simply do not... Checking Whether Your Site Is Indexed The first thing to verify.THE QUICK CHECKSearch for your exact domain name.If your site does not... Checking Your PHP Version Finding out what you are running.IN CPANELThe PHP selector shows the current version for your... Checking Your Service Usage from the Client Area You do not need to open cPanel to see where you stand.WHEREServices > My Services > click... Checkout Errors and Failures When customers cannot complete a purchase.FIRST, REPRODUCE ITBuy something yourself, as a guest,... Choosing a Hosting Plan at Checkout Four things decide which plan fits.HOW MANY WEBSITESEntry plans typically allow one. If you run... Choosing a Stack for Your Project Matching the technology to the hosting.WHAT RUNS EASILY ON SHARED HOSTINGPHP applications of any... Choosing a WordPress Theme What matters in the decision.WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERSSpeed Whether it is maintained Whether it works... Choosing and Storing Strong Passwords Most account compromises begin with a guessed, reused or stolen password rather than a clever... Choosing Between Hosting Plans Which one suits.WHAT DISTINGUISHES THEMDisk space Bandwidth The number of websites you can host... Choosing Good URLs Addresses that work.WHAT A GOOD URL LOOKS LIKEShort Readable Describing the page Using words... Choosing Shop Software What to build on.WOOCOMMERCEA WordPress plugin. The most common option on shared hosting.Suits:... Choosing the Right Application for Your Project WordPress is not the answer to everything.WHAT TO ASK FIRSTWhat does the site actually need to do... Choosing the Right Permalink Structure Permalinks are the URL format for your content. Set this once, early — changing it later breaks... Choosing the Right PHP Version PHP runs most websites on our servers, and the version matters for both speed and... Choosing VPS Specifications Sizing a server for what you actually run.START FROM THE WORKLOADA single WordPress site with... Choosing What You Actually Need Avoiding buying the wrong thing.FOR A SIMPLE WEBSITEShared Hosting and a domain name. That is all... Choosing WooCommerce Extensions Wisely Every extension is code running on every page load.BEFORE INSTALLING ANYTHINGAsk whether the shop... Church, School and Organisation Websites Common requirements for community organisations.WHAT THEY USUALLY NEEDInformation: about,... Cleaning Up a Bloated WordPress Database Over time the database fills with data no visitor ever sees, which slows queries and inflates... Cleaning Up Database Bloat Reclaiming size and speed.WHERE BLOAT ACCUMULATESPost revisions, one per edit, indefinitely... Cleaning Up WordPress Revisions and Transients The two largest sources of bloat.REVISIONSWordPress stores a copy of a post every time it is... Cleaning Up Your Database Removing accumulated waste.WHAT ACCUMULATESPost revisions, sometimes dozens per page Spam and... Cloudflare and Visitor IP Addresses Why your logs show the wrong address.THE PROBLEMWhen traffic is proxied, our server sees... Cloudflare APO for WordPress Caching dynamic pages properly.WHAT IT ISA paid Cloudflare feature that caches WordPress HTML at... Cloudflare Pages and Static Hosting Hosting a site at Cloudflare itself.WHAT IT ISHosting for static sites, built from a repository... Common Developer Mistakes on Shared Hosting The ones that cause real problems.EDITING FILES DIRECTLY ON PRODUCTIONChanges exist nowhere else... Common Problems With These Sites What goes wrong.MEMBERS CANNOT ACCESS CONTENT THEY PAID FORCheck their subscription status Check... Comparing Content Management Systems An honest comparison.WORDPRESSLargest ecosystem, most plugins, most developers, easiest to find... Compressing and Extracting Archives Working with zip files.WHY COMPRESSTransferring one large file is far faster than thousands of... Configuring Your Website to Send Email Properly Mail sent by your website is judged by the same rules as mail you type.THE PROBLEM WITH DEFAULT... Connecting Your Email Platform to WordPress Getting the two working together.WHAT THE INTEGRATION PROVIDESSignup forms that add subscribers... Containers and Whether You Need Them Docker and similar, on a VPS.WHAT THEY DOPackage an application with its dependencies so it runs... Controlling Directory Listings with Index Manager If a folder has no index file, the server may display a list of everything inside it. Visitors... Creating a Child Theme Practical steps.CHECK FIRSTMany themes provide a child theme ready to download.Use it rather than... Creating a Staging Copy of Your WordPress Site A staging site is a private copy where you can test updates, new plugins or design changes... Creating a Staging Site on Your Hosting Testing on the server before production.WITH SOFTACULOUSFor WordPress, Softaculous >... Creating a Standard Onboarding Process Doing the same things in the same order for every client removes most future support.YOUR... Creating and Managing Cron Jobs A cron job runs a command automatically on a schedule.CREATING ONEIn cPanel open Cron Jobs under... Creating and Managing Navigation Menus Menus control your site's navigation. How you edit them depends on your theme. Classic themes Go... Creating Pages and Posts in WordPress Pages are for permanent content such as About or Contact. Posts are dated entries that appear in... Cron job not running or producing errors Scheduled tasks failing.FIRST, CONFIRM IT IS SETcPanel > Cron Jobs. Check the entry exists and... Cron Jobs After a Migration What gets lost.WHAT HAPPENSCron jobs do not travel with website files.Unless you took a full... Cron Jobs for Other Applications Beyond WordPress.WHAT APPLICATIONS TYPICALLY NEEDA single scheduled command run at a regular... Cron Jobs on Shared Hosting A cron job runs a command automatically on a schedule.CREATING ONEcPanel > Cron Jobs. Choose... Cron Jobs: Everything That Matters, Briefly The whole category in one page.THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT ON OUR SERVERSHTTP wp-cron is blocked... Cron Scripts and Scheduled Tasks Running things automatically.CREATING ONEcPanel > Cron Jobs. Set the interval and the command,... Customising Without Touching Code Options for non-developers.THE CUSTOMISERAppearance, Customise. Live preview of changes.Colours,... Customising Your Shop Without Breaking It How to make changes that survive updates.USE A CHILD THEMEIf you edit theme files directly, the... Database Errors After an Update When an update leaves things inconsistent.WHAT HAPPENSMany updates change the database structure... Database Maintenance Routine What to do and how often.MONTHLYCheck the database size in cPanel > MySQL Databases Clear... Database Terminology Explained The words you will encounter.TABLE: a collection of rows of one kindROW or RECORD: one itemCOLUMN... Databases: Everything That Matters, Briefly The whole category in one page.WHAT A DATABASE ISThe half of your site holding content, settings,... Deactivating and Deleting Plugins Removing what you do not need.DEACTIVATE VERSUS DELETEDeactivating stops it running. The files... Debugging Techniques on Hosting Finding the cause when something fails.ENABLE ERROR LOGGINGNever display errors on a production... Destination folder already exists Installing something that is partly there.WHAT IT MEANSWordPress tried to create a plugin or... Diagnosing 500 Errors The server reporting that something failed.THE FIRST PLACE TO LOOKcPanel > Metrics >... Diagnosing a Plugin Conflict Finding the culprit.THE SYMPTOMSomething stops working, usually after installing or updating a... Diagnosing a Slow Server Finding the actual bottleneck.START BY MEASURINGIs the server slow, or is the application slow?... Diagnosing a White Screen No error, no content, nothing.WHAT IT MEANSPHP stopped and errors are not being displayed, which... Diagnosing Issues After a Migration The site worked before the move.THE COMMON CAUSESDatabase credentials not updated, or the cPanel... Diagnosing Redirect Loops The browser reports too many redirects and the page never loads.THE CAUSETwo or more things are... Disabling the WordPress Theme and Plugin File Editor The built-in editor under Appearance and Plugins lets anyone with administrator access write PHP... Disabling XML-RPC on WordPress xmlrpc.php allows remote applications to talk to WordPress. It is also routinely abused for... Documenting Your Plugins Keeping a record.WHAT TO RECORDEvery plugin What it does Why it is there Whether it is paid, and... Editing Files from the Command Line Making changes without a file manager.THE EDITORSnano is simple. Controls are shown at the bottom... Editing Files Safely Making changes without breaking things.THE RULECopy before you edit. Always.Name the copy... Emails from my website are not being delivered Application mail failing.THE MOST COMMON CAUSEThe application uses PHP's mail function by... Embedding Video in Your Website Adding it to a page.HOW IT WORKSThe platform provides embed code.You paste it into your page.FOR... Enabling and Using SSH Access SSH gives you command-line access to your account, useful for WP-CLI, Composer, Git and large... Enabling Debug Logging Getting errors recorded rather than hidden.WHYA live site should not display errors, because they... Enabling Free SSL and Forcing HTTPS on WordPress Every domain hosted with us is entitled to a free AutoSSL certificate. Once it is issued you... Enabling Two-Factor Authentication on WordPress Two-factor authentication (2FA) requires a one-time code from your phone in addition to your... Enabling WP_DEBUG and Finding Your Error Logs When something breaks, the log tells you exactly what failed. Guessing is slower. WordPress debug... ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS The browser gave up after being redirected in a circle.THE CAUSETwo or more redirect mechanisms... Error establishing a database connection The application could not reach its database.WHAT IT MEANSThe credentials are wrong, the user... Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted The script used more memory than permitted.WHAT IT MEANSPHP reached its memory limit and... Finding Mixed Content on Your Site Locating exactly what is insecure.THE BROWSER CONSOLEOpen the page, press F12, and read the... Finding PHP Errors Where the information is.THE ERROR LOGcPanel, Errors. Or the error log file in your account.That... Finding Which Database Belongs to Which Site Untangling a multi-site account.THE RELIABLE METHODRead each site's configuration file.WordPress:... Fixing "Allowed Memory Size Exhausted" PHP ran out of memory mid-request. It appears as a white screen, a partially rendered page, or an... Fixing "Another Update Is Currently in Progress" WordPress sets a database lock while updating core and clears it when finished. An interrupted... Fixing "Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance" WordPress creates a file named .maintenance in the root while it updates, and deletes it when... Fixing "Error Establishing a Database Connection" WordPress cannot reach or authenticate to its database. There are four realistic causes. 1. Wrong... Fixing "Sorry, This File Type Is Not Permitted for Security Reasons" WordPress only allows a fixed list of file types in the media library. Option 1 — use an allowed... Fixing "Too Many Redirects" (ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS) The browser is being bounced between two addresses in a loop. There are four common sources. 1.... Fixing 404 Errors on Every Page Except the Homepage If the homepage loads but every other page returns "Page not found", the rewrite rules are... Fixing 502 and 504 Gateway Timeout Errors The web server waited too long for PHP to respond. The request was too slow, not necessarily... Fixing a 500 Internal Server Error A 500 error is the web server reporting that something failed without saying what. Work through... Fixing Image Upload Errors in WordPress "Unable to create directory", "The uploaded file could not be moved" and HTTP errors during... Fixing Mixed Content in WordPress The standard procedure.TAKE A BACKUP FIRSTA database search and replace cannot be undone.THE... Fixing Mixed Content Warnings A broken padlock on an HTTPS site means some resources are still being requested over plain... Fixing Mixed Content Warnings After Switching to HTTPS A "Not secure" warning or a broken padlock on an HTTPS site usually means some images, scripts or... Fixing the WordPress Login Page Refresh Loop You enter correct credentials, the page reloads, and you are back at the login form with no... Fixing the WordPress Site URL in the Database When you cannot reach the admin.WHEN YOU NEED THISAfter a migration, where the site redirects to... Fixing the WordPress White Screen of Death A completely blank page with no error message almost always means a PHP fatal error with error... Fixing WordPress Not Sending Email (SMTP Setup) By default WordPress sends mail with PHP's mail() function. Messages sent that way are frequently... Forcing HTTPS on Your Website Once a certificate is issued, all traffic should be forced to HTTPS so nobody lands on the... Forums and Community Software Running a discussion community.THE OPTIONSphpBB: free, mature, widely used, straightforward to... Free Versus Paid Plugins The comparison.FREE PLUGINS FROM THE DIRECTORYReviewed before listing Community support... Free Versus Paid Themes The honest comparison.FREE THEMES FROM THE OFFICIAL DIRECTORYReviewed before listing Usually... Freeing Up Disk Space on Your Hosting Account A full account breaks uploads, email delivery and database writes. Here is where the space... Getting SSH Access on Your Hosting Account Command line access to your hosting.AVAILABILITYSSH access is available on many plans. Check your... Getting Support from Us as a Reseller You are our customer. Your clients are yours. Escalating well gets faster answers.WHEN TO... Getting Your First Website Online Four steps take a new account from empty to live.1. POINT YOUR DOMAINSet your domain's... Giving a Developer Access Safely Handing over your main cPanel login gives one person total control of every site, mailbox and... Giving Clients Access Appropriately Who can do what.WHAT TO GIVE THEMTheir cPanel login, always. It is their account and their... Handling Support Requests from Your Clients Your clients contact you, not us. Deciding in advance what you cover keeps that manageable.WHAT... Helping Clients with WordPress Problems Most reseller clients run WordPress, and most of their problems are the same few.WHITE... Hiding Sensitive Files from Public Access Anything inside public_html is reachable by anyone who guesses the URL, whether or not you linked... Hosting a Static Site The simplest case.WHAT YOU NEEDHosting that serves files. Any plan.HOW TO PUBLISHUpload the files... How Many Plugins Is Too Many An honest answer.THE HONEST ANSWERThere is no fixed number. Quality matters more than count.Five... How to Back Up Your WordPress Site A WordPress site is two things: the files in public_html and the database. A usable backup... 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