Category: Miscellaneous

Cloudflare handles 301 redirects super easy on the top layer. Lately we encountered unique problem of removing amp pages and doing 301 direct of all canonical URLs. We received proper canonical tag warnings in google because of this and hurt our rankings. Cloudflare did it on the fly. No requirement to use plugins that overload…

Enabling bot fight mode may hurt your SEO and ability to get new links, also discovery if crawled by unknown bots. Be careful how you use it. In my case i found it hurt my organic rankings after enabling it for a year. You are better off disabling this option in cloudflare. If you are…

If you have lightsail instance, it is super easy to connect to mariadb (or mysql) installed with bitnami. First take the password by cating Then connect The above command could be deprecated, use with mariadb You dont need phpmyadmin. This is the rightway to avoid error cannot connect to socket.

If you see wordpress URLs exposes ip address of your server despite being in cloudflare, go modify wp-config.php to make these setting In most cases, this should resolve the problem. Make sure you go to WordPress > General settings > and check the domain name has https not http. You also have to save again…

Google could penalize your sitealgorithmically, if they see any site issues with hosting. Cloudflare, and other plugin such as Wp-rocket or Wordfence could just be suspects. Investigate thoroughly. Cloudflare is used by everyone, much data flows through their proxy. It could have counter effect. Possible the assigned ip has history of blacklist. Investigate property if…

All you need to do is just edit theme file and place this one line code. You dont need heavy plugins to do this job. Edit single.php and page.php, place it.

I have been struggling with the missing intermediate/root chain certificates when i tried third party ssl certificate. Check Installation First check the installed cert. Use these tools to check your certificate https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html To fix this problem, i would suggest The chained certs must be according to correct order of certifying authority. Make sure you point…

If you are using Google sheets, you might want to remove the content within brackets. It is very easy to do it using regular expressions. Fore example if you have content such I am Johnnymac[133] and you want to remove the bracket and numbers within. Do these in your google sheet. Edit > find and…