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WordPress Server Load hampering your visitors and causing slow page loads?  With M3Server.com’s fully managed WordPress virtual server, we take care of that problem for you.  Often times the WordPress Server Load is simply just server related.  Period.

Properly tuning a server takes patience to provide you the best WordPress Hosting experience possible.  We analyze each service provided by the server and performance tune it to your site’s characteristics.   Our free tuning service includes benchmark tests of before, during, and after the tuning process is complete.  We can show you real results of these tests.

Once we have the server load reduced and your WordPress hosting has improved, we can then work with you to improve your site with use of plugins and other performance improvements.

To reduce your WordPress Server Load, get started today and visit M3Server.com’s WordPress Hosting service!  Get your own WordPress virtual server and start serving your pages even faster.

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You added, upgraded, removed, activated or other wise modified a WordPress plugin and now you can’t reach your WordPress admin login page!  Or, even worse, your entire site has a blank page or other 500 error.

Did you backup your database first before working on your site?   Its best to restore IF you have a CURRENT backup, but if not, you can try this fix action.

If you forget to deactivate plugins before a WordPress upgrade/update, your site could break or leave you with a blank page when viewing your WordPress admin login page.

The repair action is to go to the wp_option table in your WordPress database, and find the row with option_name ‘active_plugins’.

To get started, follow the general guide below:

Login via your Secure phpMyAdmin URL with the user name and password of your database.

Find your database name on the left hand side and click it.
Now, find the table named: wp_option

Next, locate the row:
active_plugins

Click on the “pencil” edit icon to edit this row.

The section of interest is the large white text box.  It generally has a few lines of code.

Copy this data and paste it in a plain text editor, just for save keeping.

Then delete the rows of code in this box and click save.

This should deactivate all plugins.  Retry your WordPress admin login now.

As always, we can’t state this strongly enough.  Before embarking on any WordPress management, updates, upgrades, plugin installs, etc, always, and we mean always backup/export your database.A

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To prevent unauthorized scanning of backup files, scripts, etc.  Add this to your WordPress htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule \.php~$ – [forbidden,last]

The second line above should go right under the first line as shown.

This will prevent index.php~ from displaying in URLs increasing security on your WordPress site.

As always, make a local backup of your files before editing so that you can make easy corrections of things don’t work out as planned.

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By default on m3server.com servers, we have these start pages listed in order of precedence:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi index.php

Meaning, index.html will be called before index.php.

If you have two pages with names listed above, the order of precedence will determine which the server automatically serves to the web user.

The directory index page is what the server displays if the client doesn’t specify a page.  For example:

http://www.m3server.com/

Notice the index page wasn’t specified.

http://www.m3server.com/index.php

Notice the index page is specified.

If you wanted your directory index page to be a specific page for the time being, or permanently changed you do so via the power of your .htaccess file.

Enter this at the top of your .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.html

The change is instant.  If results aren’t desirable, just revert your .htaccess file back to the original setting.

Say for example that your current directory index page is index.php and you wanted to divert people away from that page without changing that page’s content, like for constructing a new page or a seasonal message.  The DirectoryIndex command will be your method of routing visitors to the index.html page, or whatever page you note in the .htaccess command of DirectoryIndex.

Enjoy!

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How to send / receive email using a mail client?  While all mail clients will have different setup screens, the options can be summed up using the settings below.

Note:  Replace my_domain.com with your real domain name.

Notice:  Don’t use smtp.mydomain.com or mail.domain.com, use only the domain.com portion.

IMAP/POP3 – what is the difference?  IMAP service holds all of your files/folders on the server and pushes them to the various clients you may use.  So, if you delete a message on your iPhone, the message will also be deleted from your desktop mail client as well.  POP3 downloads everything to your device.  If you use multiple devices you should definitely use IMAP.

Incoming mail server IMAP/POP3

my_domain.com

Do not select SSL/SECURE.  The user name is just your user name, not the email address.

Outgoing mail server SMTP

my_domain.com

Do not select SSL/SECURE but do enable “my server requires authentication”.

Use the same user name and password as you did for the IMAP/POP3 service.

Happy e-mailing,

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