W3 Total Cache Installation
Overview W3 Total Cache is one of the most useful plugins for any busy website or for those who want users to have the fastest experience possible with your site. Used by the likes of Mashable and Smashing...
WordPress
How to Add a Facebook Like Button to WordPress
Overview You can add the Facebook famous "Like" (or Recommend for a more business like term) to your posts and increase their popularity. Instructions Login to your WordPress Admin Site. You can do this directly into WordPress, or if...
How to add a new post in WordPress
Overview This article describes how to add a new post and picture into a WordPress website. This article has was written using screenshots from WordPress 3.8.1, so they may appear a little different depending on the version on...
How to add an event in WordPress using Event Manager
PLEASE NOTE: The following article is intended for use with the WordPress plugin "Events Manager". This software is third party software and Conetix does not endourse or is affiliated with the software or its provider. Conetix does not...
How to Install New WordPress Plugins in Parallels Plesk 12
Overview The following support article demonstrates how to installed new plugin WordPress via Parallels Plesk 12. This article uses the plugin “Contact Form 7 Integrations” as an example, however you should only install plugins that you require and are...
How to delete a WordPress theme in Parallels Plesk 12
Overview The following support article demonstrates how to delete an existing theme in WordPress via Parallels Plesk. WordPress comes with a number of pre-installed default themes. If they are not being utilised by the site, it is recommended...
How to change a WordPress theme in Parallels Plesk 12
Overview The following article demonstrates how to change the WordPress theme used by a subscription in Parallels Plesk 12. This article is for themes that are already installed, such as the default WordPress themes. Instructions Once logging in...
WordPress XMLRPC Vulnerability
Overview A part of the standard WordPress package, Pingbacks allow remote blogs to notify your site when they have linked to your content. Unfortunately, hackers have found a way to exploit this in order to cause a Distributed...
How to set up fail2Ban in Plesk 12 for WordPress logins
Overview Fail2Ban is a new feature in Plesk 12 that allows users to set up filters to block ip addresses to prevent things like brute force attacks. The following support articles outlines how to configure Fail2Ban for WordPress....
How to Make a Pre-Installed CMS available under a Subscription in Plesk
Overview This support article demonstrates how to make a Content Management System (CMS) available for install on a subscription within a VPS. This is handy for you are on Partner plans to be able to offer one click...
How to change a site URL in WordPress to “www”
Overview This article outlines how to set the URL for a WordPress site to www.domain-name.com , instead of domain-name.com. This requires making changes to settings via your WordPress Admin and your hosting account. For this example we will be using conetixtest.com. ...
Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension
Overview If you have moved your website recently to newer hosting or updated your PHP version to 7.0, you may see the following error: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by...
WordPress Debugging
Overview On occasions, low level WordPress debugging is required to help narrow down issues. These problems can range from errors on the page to simply seeing a white page without any content. The verbose WordPress debug logs provide...
WordPress 4.6 Upgrade – Requests Conflict
Overview Now that WordPress 4.6 has been released, they have included the Requests library as part of the changes to the HTTP API. This is a good thing in the fact that it brings greater flexibility and...
How to find why your website displays Not secure in the address bar
Overview Recent changes to both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (in early 2017) have started to push secure (HTTPS) based connections by default instead of optional. If your site is already HTTPS based, this could also indicate an issue either...
Create a WordPress Backup with Updraft Plus
Overview All customers on our Managed WordPress plans sites are able to create and download their own backups as they require them. By default, Updraft Plus will prompt to create a backup before perform any updates but it's also...
Set PHP Timezone for a Website
Overview Most PHP applications (eg WordPress) set the required date/time within the application, so that it's a user configurable option. Prior to PHP 5.4, PHP would default to the server timezone, however PHP 5.4 upwards now default to UTC...
How to enable WordPress debugging in Plesk Onyx
Overview If you are experiencing issues with a plugin or particular WordPress configuration, you can enable the detailed debug logs to capture detailed information to help determine the cause. Traditionally this required manually editing the WordPress configuration file...
How to Prevent Search Engines Indexing WordPress Development Site
Overview The following support article demonstrates how to prevent search engine robots from indexing your development site until it is ready to be made live. This is to help prevent duplicate content issues and to avoid placeholder and/or...
Why wont my paid WordPress plugin update
Overview WordPress allows you to install plugins from external systems, which are normally paid plugins with advanced functionality. As these plugins can't be directly updated via the standard system, they generally require a license key to be added to...
WordPress Toolkit: Broken Instance
Overview Scanning for WordPress instances within the WordPress Toolkit can sometimes result in a broken instance being detected over your working instance. While there are many reasons for this, we will be covering the most common reason the for the WordPress Toolkit finding...
Allow W3 Total Cache to pages with Google Analytics and Facebook Click ID Tags
Overview Conetix uses and recommends the use of W3 Total Cache for WordPress sites to ensure the highest possible website response times. W3 Total Cache (W3TC) does this by generating a static HTML version of the site and...
Plesk Onyx – WordPress Toolkit Password Reset
Overview This article describes how to reset the password of an existing WordPress admin user for a site using the WordPress toolkit in Plesk. This can be handy if you've forgotten your password, or the email address used for...
Plesk Onyx: Allow header based authentication for WooCommerce
Overview The WooCommerce REST API allows external systems to connect into your WooCommerce store from external software. This can be used to syncronise products, conduct inventory control, Point of Sale (POS) integration and store testing (such as Robot...
WordPress: How to Install the Classic Editor Plugin
Overview With the release of WordPress 5.0, the updated Gutenberg editor will be installed by default and all existing WordPress installations which update to 5.0 will also receive this new editor. While there are a number of fantastic...
Plesk WordPress Toolkit: WordPress Login Button not appearing
Overview This article will help you link your WordPress site through the Plesk WordPress Toolkit so that you can login to WordPress directly from Plesk. If your site is already configured, you should see the WordPress Toolkit options...
Shared Hosting: WordPress Toolkit Login button doesn’t appear
Overview To take advantage of the WordPress Toolkit within Plesk, you first need to ensure the system knows you have a WordPress site. Where the site has already been configured, you should see this toolbar: If you don’t see the...
Plesk VPS: WordPress Login Button not Appearing
Overview This article will describe how to fix a common issue that occurs in Plesk where the WordPress Login button does not appear under the Subscription. If the site is configured correctly, you should see the following under your...
Reset your WordPress Password
Overview Passwords for WordPress Users are Encrypted making it impossible to recover them if they have been forgotten. However, there is a simple password reset procedure where you will be require to use your email address for verification....
Creating a reCAPTCHA API Key
Overview This article aims to guide you through generating a reCAPTCHA key for your contact form. Instructions Using your Google Account Log into google.com/recaptcha Login to the admin console with the button in the top right labeld “Admin Console”...
Fixing a compromised WordPress website
Overview If you’ve had a security incident where your website has had a security vulnerability exploited, it’s important that you ensure that you not only fix the security vulnerability but you fix any changes made as well. It’s...
WordPress Toolkit -enable/disable maintenance mode
Overview When a WordPress website enters maintenance mode, the website’s content is hidden from visitors without being changed or otherwise affected. Visitors accessing your website while it’s in maintenance mode see the maintenance screen instead of the website...
Installing WordPress in Plesk
Overview This article will take you through the steps of installing WordPress in Plesk. Instructions Login into Plesk via the Conetix Control Panel or by signing in to your VPS directly. Navigate to the domain or subdomain you...
Installing and Configuring WordFence
Overview This article aims to guide you through Installing and configuring WordFence with Conetix recommended settings. WordFence adds an additional layer of security for your website to help keep it secure through features such as brute force detection...
Configure and use the One Click Login to WordPress via Plesk
Overview This article details the process of setting up and using the One Click Login to WordPress through Plesk. Instructions 1. Navigate to the relevant Subscription in Plesk. 2. Open the WordPress Toolkit by selecting WordPress in the...
Creating a Google Maps API Key
Overview This article will guide you through the process of creating a Google Maps API key for embedded maps on your website. Many plugins and themes offer this functionality however an API key is always required and should...
Customising the WordPress Toolkit Maintenance Page
Overview This article will take you through the process of modifying the Plesk WordPress Toolkit maintenance page. At times you may wish to display a custom message when your site enters maintenance for a long period of time....
Remove WordPress installation from Quarantine
Overview This support article describes how to remove a Website’s WordPress Installation from quarantine, specifically within the WordPress Toolkit in Plesk. This should only be done if you are certain that the site is not infected, or in...
WordPress Site Health
Overview In version 5.2, WordPress added the Site Health feature to assist in diagnosing potential issues with your site. While this has been a welcome edition to WordPress, some of the warnings and errors need further information for...
Insecure Password warning: Managed WordPress
Overview Conetix offers Managed WordPress Hosting as part of our hosting services and this features a number of additional items such as managed updates, managed backups and increased security. As part of this increased security, we take a...