15 Most Annoying Things about WordPress and How to Fix Them

Like most things in life, WordPress also has it’s fair share of annoying things. Dealing with these annoyances is very easy with the right system and processes. In this article, we will show you the 15 most annoying things about WordPress and how to fix them.

1. Setting up WordPress Backup

WordPress does not come with a built-in backup system. You are supposed to create your own backups instead of relying on your WordPress hosting company.

Having a regular backup saves you the frustration when something bad happens to your website.

There are plenty of free and paid backup solutions available for WordPress. See our comparison of the 7 best WordPress backup plugins.

2. Deleting the Uncategorized Category

WordPress comes with two built in taxonomies, they are called categories and tags. By default, each new post you create is filed into a built-in category titled Uncategorized.

If you forget to assign the post to a category, then it will be filed under Uncategorized. This looks unprofessional, but you can easily fix it.

See our guide on how to change the default Uncategorized category in WordPress.

3. Changing The Username

During WordPress installation or at the time of user creation, you can choose a username for the account.

However the problem is that there’s no easy way to change the username once it’s created. This can be extremely annoying.

Thankfully, we have a tutorial that shows you the easy way to change your WordPress username.

4. Adding More Formatting Options to the Post Editor

By default, WordPress comes with two types of writing areas in the post editor. The Visual Editor, which is a WYSIWYG editor, and Text Editor which is a plain text editor.

Switching from Visual to Text and then Back to Visual editor will ruin your formatting. But you need to switch to the text editor if you want to add custom HTML formatting in WordPress.

One easy solution is to stick with the Text editor and learn some basic HTML formatting. However if you want to use Visual editor, then you can use TinyMCE advanced plugin. It extends the default WordPress Visual editor with more formatting options.

See: 14 Tips to Master the WordPress Visual Editor

5. Enabling Shortcodes for WordPress Widgets

Shortcodes allow you to add functionality into WordPress text areas without writing any code. However, shortcodes do not work in WordPress text widgets by default.

Thankfully, there’s an easy fix for that.

Simply add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.

add_filter('widget_text','do_shortcode');

If you don’t want to add the code manually, then you can install and activate the Shortcode Widget plugin. It adds a shortcode widget in your WordPress widgets, which is exactly like a text widget but allows you to add shortcodes.

6. Getting Locked Out of WordPress

Sometimes you may end up locking yourself out of the WordPress admin area. Either you forgot your password and unable to recover it, or something broke when you were adding code or a plugin.

We have created a handy guide on what to do when you are locked out of the WordPress admin area. It will help you learn how to fix this in different scenarios.

7. Deactivating All WordPress Plugins

When troubleshooting some problem on your WordPress site, you will be advised to deactivate all WordPress plugins. You can just go to plugins page and deactivate all plugins.

But what if you don’t have access to the WordPress admin area? Here is how you can deactivate all WordPress plugins using FTP.

8. Fixing Common WordPress Errors

WordPress comes with a slight learning curve, and you get to learn things as you go along. Somethings are easier to learn than others.

The most frustrating and annoying thing for beginners are the common WordPress errors.

That’s why we have compiled a list of 14 common WordPress errors and how to fix them.

9. Setting up Automatic Updates for WordPress Plugins

All good WordPress plugins are regularly updated. If you are using the best WordPress plugins on your website, then chances are that you will be installing updates quite often.

Installing updates take only a few seconds, but it can be distracting to login and find new updates. See our guide on how to automatically install updates for WordPress plugins.

10. Creating Better Image Galleries

While you can create galleries in the default WordPress installation, it’s not as useful because it lacks features like Albums, tagging, lightboxes, and more.

Thankfully there’s a plugin like Envira Gallery available which allows you to create beautiful image galleries in WordPress without compromising speed.

You can add Albums, watermarks, sell your photos, and more.

11. Delete Hello Dolly Plugin

Each WordPress site comes with two default plugins pre-installed. Hello Dolly is one of them. This plugin doesn’t receive any updates and does nothing useful for your site.

Learn more about Hello Dolly plugin and why you should delete it.

12. Customizing WordPress Excerpts

By default, WordPress displays full posts on homepage, archives, and category pages. This not only creates duplicate content on your site, but it also discourages users from viewing the full post and leaving comments. See our guide on full post vs excerpt in your WordPress archive pages

By displaying excerpts on these pages, you can increase your pageviews and user engagement. See our guide on how to customize WordPress excerpts without any coding.

13. Showing Excerpts in RSS Feeds

WordPress also shows your full articles in the RSS Feed. This means users reading your posts in a feed reader will have no reason to visit your website.

You can easily change this from WordPress admin area. Go to Settings » Reading page and scroll down to ‘For each article in a feed, show’ option and select Summary. Click on the save changes button to store your settings.

14. Dealing with Comment Spam

Spam comments are one of the most annoying things. WordPress comes with built-in comment moderation to deal with spam comments. However comment spam can quickly grow, and before you know it you will be spending more time moderating comments.

First thing you need to do is start using Akismet. It will catch most spam comments and keep them away from your moderation queue.

You may also want to check out these 12 vital tips and tools to combat comment spam in WordPress.

15. Improving WordPress Search

WordPress comes with a built-in search feature, but it’s not very good. If search is important for your website, then you will need to replace the default search with something better.

Thankfully, there are some great alternatives to improve WordPress search. Check out our list of 12 WordPress search plugins to improve your site search.

We hope this article helped you fix some of the most annoying things about WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on 19 Actionable Tips to Drive Traffic to Your New WordPress Site.

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25 Most Common WordPress Errors and How to Fix Them

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

1. How to fix internal server error


2. How to fix syntax error in WordPress


3. How to fix the error establishing database connection in WordPress


4. How to fix WordPress white screen of death


5. How to fix WordPress posts returning 404 error


6. How to fix sidebar below content error in WordPress


7. How to fix white text and missing buttons in WordPress visual editor


8. How to fix WordPress memory exhausted error by increasing PHP memory limit


9. What to do when you are locked out of WordPress admin area


10. How to fix WordPress login page refreshing/redirecting issue


11. How to fix image upload issue in WordPress


12. How to fix common image issues in WordPress


13. How to fix “Are you sure you want to do this” error in WordPress


14. How to fix briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance error in WordPress


15. How to fix WordPress not sending email issue


16. How to fix WordPress RSS feed errors


17. How to fix 403 forbidden error in WordPress


18. How to fix error too many redirects issue in WordPress


19. How to fix “Upload: failed to write file to disk” error in WordPress


20. How to fix “This site ahead contains harmful programs” error in WordPress


21. How to fix missed scheduled post error in WordPress


22. How to fix fatal error: Maximum execution time exceeded in WordPress


23. How to fix Facebook incorrect thumbnail issue in WordPress


24. How to fix WordPress keeps logging out problem


25. Troubleshooting WordPress errors on your own




Let’s take a look at how to solve the most common WordPress errors (one by one).




1. How to Fix Internal Server Error









Perhaps the most confusing WordPress error that a beginner may come across is “Internal Server Error”, or sometimes “500 Internal Server Error”.




This error usually appears when there is something wrong, but the server is unable to identify where the problem is. Since the error message does not indicate where you should look for the error, it is pretty much up to you to figure this out.




We have compiled a list of solutions that you can try and one of them will help you resolve it. [Fix internal server error]




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2. How to Fix Syntax Error in WordPress









This error usually occurs when you are trying to add code snippets into WordPress and have accidentally missed something or the code has incorrect syntax. This will result into a PHP parse error and you will see a notice like:




Parse error- syntax error, unexpected $end in /public_html/site1/wp-content/themes/my-theme/functions.php on line 278




The error message would indicate the unexpected thing found in the code and the location of the script where the error occurred with line number. To fix this issue you will have to correct the syntax. Most of the time it is a missing bracket, or some unexpected character in the code. [Fix syntax error in WordPress]




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3. How to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress









This error message is clear that your website is unable to connect to the database. However solving this error can be tricky for beginners.




Usually this occurs when a user has entered or modified their database credentials (database host, database username, and database password) incorrectly. Sometimes your database server could be unresponsive, or your database may have corrupted.




However, mostly it is incorrect database login credentials. Take a look at common solutions for this problem. [Fix error establishing database connection in WordPress]




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4. How to Fix the WordPress White Screen of Death









This error usually results into a plain white screen with no error message. This makes it the most puzzling because you have no clue where to look and what to fix.




Most of the time it is caused when a script exhausts PHP memory limit. It can also happen due to a configuration on the server. It is also possible that a user would only see white screen of death on certain sections of their site. [See how to fix WordPress white screen of death]




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5. How to Fix WordPress Posts Returning 404 Error









The symptoms of this error is that when a user visits a single post on their site they get a 404 page – not found error.




The user can browse all other sections of their site including the admin area. The most common cause of this issue is permalink settings in WordPress. To solve this issue a user would need to reconfigure their permalinks settings or manually update their rewrite rules. [Fix WordPress posts returning 404 error]




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6. How to Fix the Sidebar Below Content Error in WordPress









Another common issue beginners face is when the sidebar appears below the content when it is supposed to appear next to the content. This issue is mostly caused by WordPress themes.




Sometimes when users are adding code snippets to their site, they may accidentally forget to close an html div tag or add an extra closing div which may result into breaking the theme layout. Another common cause is using disproportionate width in CSS or not clearing float properly. [Fix sidebar appearing below content error in WordPress]




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7. How to Fix White Text and Missing Buttons in WordPress Visual Editor









Sometimes buttons from WordPress visual editor may disappear or start showing blank white spaces instead of buttons.




This problem may occur when concatenated JavaScript is not working. It may also caused by missing or corrupt TinyMCE files, or conflict with some other plugin that modifies or extends the TinyMCE shipped with WordPress. [Fix white text and missing buttons in WordPress visual editor]




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8. Fix: WordPress Memory Exhausted Error – Increase PHP Memory









Indications of this error could be a white screen of death, or an error message like this one:




Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2348617 bytes) in /home/username/public_html/site1/wp-includes/plugin.php on line xxx




This error occurs when a WordPress script or a plugin exhausts the default allocated memory size limit. [Fix WordPress memory exhausted error]




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









Sometimes you may find yourself locked out of the WordPress admin area. This could happen if you forgot your password and don’t have to access to password recovery email.




A plugin or code that incorrectly tries to make some changes into admin section can also lock you out. You may also lose access to admin area due to a hacked WordPress site. [Fix locked out of WordPress admin issue]




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10. How to Fix WordPress Login Page Refreshing and Redirecting Issue









Symptoms of this issue are that when a user attempts to login to the WordPress dashboard, they are redirected by WordPress back to the login page.




Most of the time it happens due to incorrect values for site url and home url fields in WordPress options table. It can also be caused by poorly configured permalink settings or redirects setup in the .htaccess file. [Fix WordPress login page refreshing and redirecting issue]




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11. How to Fix Image Upload Issue in WordPress









Sometimes a user would suddenly notice that all the images from their site are gone and are showing broken image placeholders. When the user tries to upload an image to a post using the media uploader, it results into an error.




All these files in the media library will appear as broken. This error occurs due to incorrect file and directory permissions in a WordPress installation. A number of factors may cause this issue. [Fix image upload issues in WordPress]




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12. How to Fix Common Image Issues in WordPress









Uploading images to a WordPress site can be confusing for someone new to WordPress. A user may be unable to find out how to align images, resize or crop them, or display them in a gallery format.




This is not an error or issue in WordPress. You just need to familiarize yourself with how WordPress handles media. [Fix common image issues in WordPress]




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13. How to Fix “Are You Sure You Want to Do This” Error in WordPress









Users may come across this error in WordPress admin area. The most common cause of this error is a plugin or theme failing to use Nonce properly.




Nonce are special security keys which may be appended to URLs when performing an admin action in WordPress. Sometimes a plugin or theme may use it incorrectly which may result into users seeing this error. [Fix are you sure you want to do this error in WordPress]




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14. How to Fix Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance Error in WordPress









Sometimes due to an unfinished or interrupted WordPress update, you might see “Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance” error in WordPress.




What happens there is that WordPress puts your site in maintenance mode during an update. If for some reason the update is interrupted, then WordPress does not get the chance to put your site out of the maintenance mode. This error would lock down your entire site and make it unavailable for admins as well as visitors. [Fix briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance error]




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15. How to Fix WordPress Not Sending Email Issue









The most common symptom of this problem is not receiving any contact form or WordPress notification emails from your site.




This issue is usually caused because most shared hosting providers disable or limit the module used for sending emails to prevent their servers from abuse. [Fix WordPress not sending email issue]




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16. How to Fix WordPress RSS Feed Errors









Most WordPress RSS feed errors are caused by poor formatting. You may see errors like these:




XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://example.com/feed
Line Number 2, Column 1:




Depending on what browser you are using, your RSS feed error message may vary. You can also see this error message when visiting your feed in a browser.




Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/username/example.com/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/functions.php:433) in /home/username/example.com/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1228




WordPress outputs RSS feeds in XML which is a strict markup language. A missing line break or an extra tab can break your RSS feed. [Fix WordPress RSS feed errors]




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17. How to Fix 403 Forbidden Error in WordPress









403 Forbidden error code is shown when your server permissions don’t allow access to a specific page. This is why the error is usually accompanied by the text:




403 Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access ‘/’ on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.




There are different scenarios when you can see this error. Incorrect file permissions, poorly coded security plugins, or server configuration are the most common culprits. [Fix 403 Forbidden error in WordPress]




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18. How to Fix Error Too Many Redirects Issue in WordPress









This error usually occurs due to a misconfigured redirection issue. As you know that WordPress has SEO friendly URL Structure which uses the redirect function. Several other popular WordPress plugins also use the redirect functionality as well.




Due to a misconfiguration in any of these redirection tools, your site may end up redirecting users to a URL that is actually redirecting them back to the referring URL. In that case the user’s browser is trapped between two pages causing a redirect loop. [Fix too many redirects issue in WordPress]




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19. How to Fix “Upload: Failed to Write File to Disk” Error in WordPress









This error can occur due to a number of reasons. However, the most common one is incorrect folder permissions.




Each file and folder on your website has a set of permissions. Your web server controls access to the files based on these permissions. Incorrect permissions to a folder can take away your ability to write files on server. This means your web server cannot create or add new files to that particular folder. [Fix Upload: Failed to write file to disk error]




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20. How to Fix “This site ahead contains harmful programs” Error in WordPress









Google marks a website with this warning if they find any suspicious code that could be a malware or trojan. Sometimes the reason for this is that your website is hacked and is now used to distribute malicious code.




Another common reason for this error is showing ads from low quality advertising networks. These networks may sometime display ads linking to websites distributing malicious code. [Fix site ahead contains harmful programs error in WordPress]




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21. How to Fix the Missed Schedule Post Error in WordPress









WordPress has this wonderful feature that allows you to schedule posts to be automatically published at a specified time. Most bloggers rely on the future to manage their publishing schedule.




However, sometimes WordPress can miss scheduled posts due to a number of reasons. If this has happened to you more than a few times then you need to address this issue. [Fix missed schedule post error in WordPress]




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22. How to Fix Fatal Error: Maximum Execution Time Exceeded in WordPress









WordPress is coded mainly in PHP programming language. To protect web servers from abuse, there is a time limit set for how long a PHP script can run.




Some WordPress hosting providers have set this value to a higher level while others may have set it to a lower level. When a script reaches the maximum execution time limit, it results into maximum execution time exceeded error. [Fix maximum execution time exceeded error in WordPress]




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23. How to Fix Facebook Incorrect Thumbnail Issue in WordPress









There are many reasons that can prevent Facebook from correctly guessing the right thumbnail image. One of the most common reason is having multiple images set in the og:image tag where your featured image is smaller than rest of the images.




Facebook uses Open Graph (og) tags, and plugins like Yoast SEO automatically adds them to your site to prevent missing thumbnail issue. [Fix Facebook incorrect thumbnail issue in WordPress]




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24. How to Fix WordPress Keeps Logging Out Problem









WordPress sets a cookie in your browser to authenticate a login session. This cookie is set for the WordPress URL stored in your settings section. If you are accessing from a URL that does not match the one in your WordPress settings, then WordPress will not be able to authenticate your session. [Fix WordPress keeps logging out problem]




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25. Troubleshooting WordPress Errors on Your Own




We have covered some of the most common WordPress errors in this article. However, the real power of WordPress comes from thousands of plugins and themes that you can use on your site. Any plugin or theme installed on your site can cause errors.




It could become really hard for beginners to find out what is causing the problem on their site and how they can fix it.




We have compiled complete step by step guide on troubleshooting WordPress errors for beginners. It will help you learn how to diagnose WordPress issues and how to fix them like a pro.




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That’s all, we hope that this guide helped you find and fix the WordPress error that you were encountering.




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20 Grammar Mistakes and How to Fix Them

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Headlines that Suck and What You Can Learn from Them

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The href="http://www.poynter.org/archived/20596/welcome-to-eyetrack-iii/" target="_blank">Poynter Institute, Eyetools Inc. and the Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media used eye tracking equipment to study the way people read webpages and came up with some interesting information to help website owners and bloggers everywhere. The study, called href="http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/24963/eyetrack-iii-what-news-websites-look-like-through-readers-eyes/" target="_blank">Eyetrack III, studied 46 people for an hour as they read online. They found that a headline that is dominant will draw the eye and even more so if they are located in the upper left corner of the page.

In addition, a headline that has specific wording, such as some of the examples Jerry Low provides in his article titled href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/inbound-marketing/headlines-writing-guides/" target="_blank">Write Headlines Like Brian Clark, Neil Patel, and Jon Morrow: 35 Headline Samples From The A-List Bloggers, will grab a reader’s attention.

One of the best ways to learn what you should do when writing a headline is by looking at headline fails. By studying what doesn’t work, you’ll learn what not to do when writing your own headlines.

What Makes a Headline Suck?

There are some very specific things that make headlines suck. Sometimes, you just don’t realize something sucks until you read it and realize how bad it is, though.

Too Short

You’ve probably heard the advice to “K.I.S.S.” (Keep It Simple, Sweetie), but even good things can be taken too far. Although a headline shouldn’t be three lines long, it also shouldn’t be so short that the reader only has an extremely broad sense of the topic. You want the reader to know exactly what your article is about when she starts to read it.

Let’s use this article as an example. My headline is “Headlines that Suck and What You Can Learn from Them”. Hopefully you know you’re going to learn about what not to do in a headline and get some instruction in writing better ones.

What if I’d used a different headline that wasn’t as clear? What if I went with:

“That Sucks!”

While that might grab your attention for a second, you would have no idea what my article was about. I could be writing about anything

Too Long

On the opposite end of the spectrum is the headline that is far too long. Like a crazy run-on sentence, it keeps going and going and going.

href="http://gothamist.com/2013/05/18/is_this_the_longest_ny_post_headlin.php" target="_blank">Gothamist points to a New York Post headline as possibly one of the longest ever. On May 18th, 2013, Josh Saul’s column went up with the following headline:

Gospel singer suing McDonald’s after she allegedly bit into piece of glass while eating chicken sandwich, which she claims ruined her voice

Wow! That wouldn’t even make a good sentence, much less a headline. This headline could be fixed by focusing on the key points:

Gospel Singer Suing McDonald’s for “Ruining her Voice”

Here is another href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2543487/posts" target="_blank">headline that sucks because it is far too long:

Woman in sumo wrestler suit assaulted her ex-girlfriend in gay pub after she waved at man dressed as a Snickers bar

Okay, I kind of understand why the reporter wanted to use all that in an attempt to grab the reader’s interest, but it was just too much. Instead, better to write something shorter like this:

Woman Assaults Ex-Girlfriend; Snickers Bar Involved

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Top 10 Most Visited Websites and How You Can Benefit from Them

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If you could utilize the ten websites with the most traffic on the Internet, how would that benefit your business? In a report compiled by href="http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/online-time/" target="_blank">Go Gulf Web Technologies from sources such as Nielson, Pew Internet and ComScoreDataMine.com, the most visited web properties were identified. According to info contained in the report:

“US Internet user on average spends 32 hours on internet per month. This is double than the time spent by Global Internet user i.e. 16 hours per month.”

If you could harness just a little bit of that time and filter those people to your website, what kind of impact would it have on your business?

Promotional Benefits of Social Media

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