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WordPress Troubleshooting Archive

Curated legacy WordPress archive covering themes, admin hardening, XMLRPC questions, caching, and other older troubleshooting threads.

Intro

The WordPress archive is intentionally narrow. It keeps the threads that still read like real troubleshooting cases: theme and menu behavior, admin-area hardening, XMLRPC questions, caching side effects, and older speed-test integration problems that crossed over from the tool archive.

This hub is for legacy support context, not a general WordPress tutorial library. The aim is to preserve the threads that explain what users actually ran into and how those issues were diagnosed at the time.

Strongest Curated Guides

WordPress Speed Test Integration

Legacy guide to putting the AuditMyPC speed test into WordPress pages, sidebars, and older theme layouts without broken embeds.

Selected Legacy Threads

Forget Captchas For Security

Legacy WordPress security thread about whether captchas help enough to justify the extra friction. Preserved with archive context.

Google and XMLRPC.PHP

Legacy WordPress thread about xmlrpc.php behavior and Google-related crawl or access issues. Preserved with archive context.

Protecting the wp-admin Folder

Legacy WordPress security thread about locking down the wp-admin folder. Preserved with archive context and older setup notes.

Step By Step WordPress

Legacy WordPress help thread with broad setup questions. Preserved for archive completeness with selected troubleshooting context.

Archive Context

Many of these discussions came from older WordPress releases and older plugin ecosystems. File paths, admin screens, and plugin behavior may no longer match a modern install exactly.

The pages are still useful when they explain the failure mode clearly, especially where themes, cached assets, server headers, or embedded third-party tools caused the visible problem.