Troubleshooting
WordPress Malware Removal: Scan, Clean, Verify
Removing malware is the easy half. The half people skip is proving it is gone, and every scanner type is blind to something the others catch.
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WordPress Troubleshooting
Fixes for the errors that take a WordPress site down.
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Cloudflare and WordPress: What It Fixes and What It Breaks
Putting a proxy in front of WordPress solves real problems and introduces a specific set of new ones — redirect loops, mixed content, cached logged-in pages and a visitor IP that is no longer the visitor.
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WooCommerce Filter Not Working
Filters fail in three distinct ways: nothing happens, everything disappears, or the results are wrong. Each points at a different layer — the query, the attribute data, or a cache serving a filtered page to everybody.
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WooCommerce Free Shipping Not Working
Free shipping is a method inside a zone, gated by a requirement. When it does not appear, the customer's address matched a different zone, the minimum was calculated on a different total, or a cached session is holding an old rate.
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WooCommerce Endpoints Not Working: Account and Checkout 404s
Endpoints like /my-account/orders/ are not real pages — they are rewrite rules on top of one page. When they 404 or render blank, the cause is the rewrite table, a missing shortcode or block, or a page assignment.
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WordPress Not Working in Chrome, Safari or on a Mac
When a site works everywhere except one browser, the site is usually fine. Prove where the fault lives with four tests, then fix the extension, the cache, the certificate or the CSS that only that browser cares about.
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How to Fix Mixed Content Warnings in WordPress
Mixed content means an HTTPS page is pulling something over HTTP. The padlock disappears, scripts get blocked outright, and the fix is to correct the stored URLs rather than to rewrite them on every request.
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WordPress Disable Theme From Database: The Last Resort
Two rows in wp_options decide which theme is active. Editing them works, but it is the third thing to try — not the first — and never without a backup.
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WordPress Page Not Scrolling Down? Find the Scroll Lock
A page that will not scroll is almost never a WordPress fault. Something left a scroll lock switched on, and the cure is to find what opened it rather than to force the page open with CSS.
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WordPress Page Content Not Showing in Editor: What Broke
If the page renders publicly but the editor is empty, your content is safe and the editor is what failed. That distinction decides the entire diagnosis, and it takes one browser tab to establish.
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WordPress Site Logo Not Changing? Start With the URL
Open the logo's image URL on its own before you touch a single setting. That one check splits the problem cleanly into a caching fault and an override fault, and they have nothing in common.
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WordPress Site Title Not Changing? Find the Override
At least four different things display something that looks like your site title, and Settings, General only controls one of them. Work out which one you are staring at and the fix takes a minute.
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