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A fresh WordPress install has well over a thousand files. Uploading them one at a time is like moving house by carrying each teaspoon separately. Your FTP client will open connections, ask permission, close connections and repeat, and the server may eventually tell you it has had enough. That “enough” is a real message: a…
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You upload a few hundred files, refresh your site and see nothing. No error, no message, just a blank white page. Welcome to the White Screen of Death, which WordPress shows when PHP hits a fatal error and has been told to keep quiet about it. After a transfer, the usual causes are boring. A…
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If your WordPress site has a diary, it is wp-config.php. It stores the database name, the database user, the database password and the secret keys that protect logins. It is also the file people most often send around by email, upload to public repositories and paste into support chats. Please do not. Anyone with that…