While I’ve never encountered the specific issue of the Add Media button not working, I’ve dealt with my fair share of broken functionality. The “CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS” fix as described in the article is a great temporary solution. However, since this forces the scripts to load separately, website performance and speed will suffer. You’ll need to do some troubleshooting to permanently solve the problem.
Over the last several decades there have been anywhere between 400,000 to 600,000 new businesses formed each year. Most new business owners are rightfully concerned about providing their service or product to customers. Marketing and advertising may not be high on their radar, but it should be. Unless your business is in a niche market, it will be difficult to get any exposure without a concerted effort towards advertising. In today’s age, if your business doesn’t have a website, you’ll be at a huge disadvantage. There are many free and cheap solutions for having a website built. However, as the...
I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! After months of periodic troubleshooting, I finally solved my gzip compression mystery. The strange part is that it worked fine on all my websites for the root domain/homepage. However, any other page besides the homepage would result in no compression. It was a painstakingly tedious process of elimination. Usually, I can find an answer to a technical problem by scouring Google. And while I did come across a few other folks who described the same issue I was having, there were no solutions. Before I dive into my own solution, I’ll explain what GZIP...
In Part 1 of Eliminating Contact Form Failures I showed you how to set up and configure Contact Form 7. I also detailed how you can drastically reduce spam by using Google’s ReCaptcha service. In this concluding post, I’ll go over how you can save your contact form messages and have those messages sent through SMTP instead of PHP. Saving contact form responses Even if you have properly configured your server or hosting environment, it is impossible to guarantee a 100% success rate of contact form submissions. The one thing that can be done is to have submissions saved to...
You finally have your business website up and running and have made sure your contact information is easily accessible. Typically, you would have your phone number, email address, and perhaps physical address listed so that visitors can connect with you directly. You probably had a contact form set up and tested too. Everything seems great until one of those visitors calls or emails you and says they sent a message through the form but did not receive a reply. Or they filled out the form and immediately after had an error message pop up indicating a failure in sending the...