Troubleshooting
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 Troubleshooting
Fixes for the errors that take a WordPress site down.
Troubleshooting
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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How to Fix Orphaned Content in WordPress
Orphaned content means two completely different things — pages nothing links to, and database rows whose parent is gone. Work out which one you have before you fix anything, because the two repairs share nothing.
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How to Fix Canonical URL in WordPress
A canonical tag is a hint about which duplicate is the master copy, not an instruction. Most canonical problems in WordPress are really URL problems that the tag was asked to paper over.
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How to Fix Plugin Conflicts in WordPress
Every active plugin runs in the same PHP process, the same hook system and the same page of JavaScript. Conflicts are collisions in that shared space, and the collision type tells you which fix will hold.
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WordPress wp-admin Not Working? Diagnose It in Order
"wp-admin is broken" is four unrelated faults wearing the same URL. The symptom you see — blank, redirect, 403 or 404 — tells you which one you have before you change anything.
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WooCommerce Product Data Tabs Not Working: Find the Missing Tab
Half of these reports are not faults at all. WooCommerce hides a tab that has nothing to display, so the first question is never why the tab broke but whether it had any reason to appear.
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Import Historical Data WooCommerce Not Working? Fix the Analytics Backfill
WooCommerce Analytics does not read your orders. It reads a set of lookup tables built from them, and the historical import is what fills those tables — which is why a stalled import and wrong report figures are the same problem seen from two angles.
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WooCommerce Database Update Not Working: Find the Stalled Queue
The database update is a background queue, not a button that does work while you watch it. Nearly every stuck update is a scheduled action that never got processed, and the fix is upstream of WooCommerce entirely.
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