wordpress – Mitch Bartlett

WordPress: Scheduled Posts Don’t Post

April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 by Mitch Bartlett

I have had a problem with WordPress websites running from Bitnami installations where scheduled posts don’t post properly. I would wake up in the morning to find all of the posts I scheduled would say “Missed schedule” next to them in the admin console. After doing some research, I discovered that cron hadn’t been configured … Read more

WordPress: How to Change Author

June 18, 2021 by Mitch Bartlett

Having trouble finding where the change the author for a post in WordPress? I will show you how. Select the “Post” section on the right pane. Expand the “Status & visibility” section. Select the “Author” drop-down menu to select another writer. If you don’t see the “Author” box, you will need to go to “Users” … Read more

How to Disable Author Pages in WordPress

July 9, 2019 by Mitch Bartlett

I am not a fan of the Author Pages in WordPress. You know, the pages that show everything a single author has published on the site? It’s great if there are more than one author, but if there is only one or two, it is useless.

How to Get WordPress Out of Maintenance Mode

July 9, 2019 by Mitch Bartlett

Sometimes WordPress gets stuck in Maintenance Mode. Visitors to the page will see a “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” when this happens.

Google Analytics Throws “Missing Permissions” Error

April 29, 2018April 27, 2018 by Mitch Bartlett

I sat here at my desk for about an hour trying to figure out why I kept getting an error whenever I tried to open my Google Analytics page. The error said:

Missing permissions

You do not have access to the account, property, or view. Contact an Analytics administrator who has the Manage Users permission.

How to Move Your WordPress Site to a New Host

November 1, 2013 by Mitch Bartlett

It can be perplexing to move a WordPress website to a new host. There are quite a few steps, and if everything isn’t done correctly you could lose data or suffer downtime. There are a couple of ways you can go about migrating your site to a new host. If you’re a pro and are familiar with MySQL, I recommend you use the first method. If you’re a bit on the novice side, use Method 2. This tutorial does assume that you know your way around FTPing into your server and doing a few things in cPanel though.

Let’s get to it.

Solve WordPress WP Super Cache Error “Page not cached by WP Super Cache. Could not get mutex lock.”

August 10, 2013 by Mitch Bartlett

I recently attempted to get a new site up and running with WordPress and the WP Super Cache plugin on Dreamhost. After configuring everything and being confident things were working just great, I started receiving errors at the bottom of the page that saidÂ “Page not cached by WP Super Cache. Could not get mutex lock.” … Read more

To Date or Not To Date Your Posts

February 12, 2019April 19, 2012 by Mitch Bartlett

Years ago, I removed all timestamps from my posts. This was because people are biased when it comes to reading a post that is old. Google indexes date information on your page too, which can cause people not to even click through to your site. Though I couldn’t tell how much of an impact this … Read more