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What To Do When You Are Locked Out of WordPress Admin (wp-admin)

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This past weekend, we had a user who was locked out of WordPress Admin panel of their site. While we had written numerous articles covering each specific issue, we realized that we should combine all of them at one place to make it easier for others. In this article, we will show you what to do when you are locked out of WordPress Admin (wp-admin), so you can regain access to your site. There are few reasons why you could be locked out of WordPress admin, so let’s take a look at each of them one by one. Hopefully through this process of elimination, you will be able to figure out the solution for your problem. Error Establishing Database Connection Are you seeing this error on your entire site? The reason why you get this error is because WordPress is unable to establish a database connection. This could happen for various reasons. It could happen if your database got corrupted for some reason. It could happen if your web hosting server is having some issues. If th...

25 Most Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them

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While WordPress is really easy to use, there are some common WordPress errors that can make you panic. The good thing is that the WordPress error you are seeing on your site is most likely been reported and resolved by someone before you. At WPBeginner, we have written tutorials on how to fix several popular WordPress errors. In this article, we will cover the 25 most common WordPress errors along with showing you how to fix all of these common WordPress errors. Important: Before trying to fix any WordPress error, make sure that you have a complete WordPress backup . You can use BackupBuddy or use this tutorial to manually create a WordPress backup . In case you are unable to resolve your issue from the steps mentioned in this article, then please contact your WordPress hosting company. Since this is a lengthy article, we have created a table of contents below for easy navigation. Table of Contents How to fix internal server error How to fix syntax error in WordPress H...

How to Choose the Best WordPress Hosting?

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How to Choose the Best WordPress Hosting? When it comes to choosing the best WordPress Hosting, I’m bound and determined to find out which company is providing the most value. There are three major components that make up a great host in my opinion, and those are 1) Performance, 2) Knowledge, Speed, and Reliability of Support, and 3) Pricing and the overall product offering. For this initial run, I compared several shared WordPress hosting companies. I plan to continue to add to this list and update it in 2016 as well so that people have a goto resource for choosing the best WordPress hosting company. Here are the hosts I’ve tested in no particular order:   Name Account Type Cost Per Month SiteGround Startup $3.95 Inmotion Hosting Power Plan $2.95 A2 Hosting Lite $3.92 Bluehost Standard Shared $2.95 GreenGeeks Standard $3.96 Site5 HostPro $8.95 MediaTemple Grid Server $20.00 DreamHost Standard Shared $7.95 ...