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Решение проблем WordPress. Как избавиться от ошибки «Are You Sure You Want to Do This?»

Эта ошибка означает, что Вы загружаете не тот архив в админ панель WordPress. Вероятнее всего Вы устанавливаете полный архив шаблона (template package) вместо архива темы (theme ZIP archive).

Обратите внимание, что Вам нужно в первую очередь разархивировать полный архив шаблона на ваш компьютер. Вы найдёте архив темы внутри.

Решение 1

1. Разархивируйте архив шаблона ‘template_XXX_AAA9999BBB888CCC777.zip’ (где XXX — это номер вашего шаблона, а AAA9999BBB888CCC777 — это идентификационный номер вашего заказа) на ваш компьютер:

   

2. Перейдите в папку ‘theme’.

3. Найдите архив themeXXX.zip. В случае, если ваш шаблон использует CherryFramework, Вы также найдёте архив CherryFramework.zip (родительская тема):

   

4. Загрузите тему/темы в админ панель WordPress (во вкладке Внешний вид > Темы > Добавить новую > Загрузить тему (Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme)):

   

Тема была успешно установлена:

Решение 2

Проблема может также возникнуть, если были превышены лимит памяти PHP или максимальный размер записи для WordPress.

Наиболее простым решением в данном случае является загрузка файлов темы при помощи FTP, используя клиент FTP (FTP client) или панель управления хостингом (cPanel).

1. Для этого разархивируйте скачанный Вами ранее архив шаблона.

2. Затем, загрузите разархивированную папку в папку “wp-content/plugins/” или “wp-content/themes/” (в зависимости от типа программного обеспечения, которое Вы используете).

3. Если Вы загружаете файлы при помощи cPanel, Вам нужно загружать файлы в архиве и разархивировать их в панели управления хостингом (cPanel).

4. Вы можете ознакомиться с туториалом, который покажет, как загружать файлы на сервер при помощи Контрольной панели хостинга (cPanel): Как загрузить файлы на сервер при помощи контрольной панели хостинга.

5. Вы можете также ознакомиться с детальным туториалом, который покажет, как загружать файлы при помощи FTP: Как загружать файлы на сервер.

Решение 3

Одной из наиболее распространённых причин того, почему отображается данная ошибка, является использование сторонних плагинов (third-party plugins) на вашем сайте.

Так как даже деактивированые плагины могут быть причиной проблемы, Вам следует полностью отключить их без удаления:

1. Для этого Вам нужно войти в файлы вашего сайта используя клиент FTP ( FTP client) и переименовать папку плагинов в папке “wp-content” на “plugins.deactivated”.

2. Если ошибка больше не выводится, один из плагинов являлся причиной проблемы.

3. Переименуйте папку назад с “plugins.deactivated” на “plugins”.

4. После этого откройте страницу плагинов в вашей админ панели WordPress и активируйте плагины один за одним. Когда Вы увидите сообщение об ошибке, Вы сможете обнаружить плагин, который является причиной возникновения ошибки.

Решение 4 (редактирование лимита PHP)

Иногда ошибка возникает, когда Вы загружаете содержимое сайта, такое как изображения, видео и т. д.

Тогда Вам необходимо увеличить max_execution_time и memory_limitв файле php.ini:

1. Откройте папку вашего сайта WordPress.

2. В корневой папке вашего сайта на сервере должен быть файл php.ini.

3. Добавьте следующий код в конец файла:

   max_execution_time = 180
   max_input_time = 600
   post_max_size = 128M
   upload_max_filesize = 256M
   

4. Если в файлах вашего сайта нет файла php.ini, Вы можете создать такой файл и загрузить его на сервер.

Решение 5

1. Откройте папку с вашим сайтом WordPress.

2. Откройте файл wp-config.php, который расположен в корневой папке вашего сайта.

3. В файле wp-config.php добавьте следующую строку в конец документа:

   define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');

   Мы увеличили лимит памяти до 128M.

Если Вы всё ещё видите сообщение об ошибке, обратитесь к вашему хостинг-провайдеру. При обращении, попросите их увеличить лимит загрузки файлов.

Вы можете также ознакомиться с детальным видео-туториалом ниже:

Решение проблем WordPress. Как избавиться от ошибки «Are You Sure You Want to Do This?»

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Do you keep getting the “Are you sure you want to do this” error message while working on your WordPress site? You’re probably wondering what’s causing it and if there’s a way to get rid of it. This warning can be very frustrating, as it doesn’t really tell you what the problem is. Plus, it prevents you from performing basic tasks on your site, such as editing blog posts.

The “Are you sure you want to do this” error can happen for several reasons. You may have installed a faulty plugin or theme, or you might be experiencing a security issue. Fortunately, you can determine the exact cause and fix the error in a few simple steps.

In this post, we’ll look at the main causes of the “Are you sure you want to do this” error in WordPress and show you how to fix it using four methods. Let’s get started!

What the “Are You Sure You Want to Do This” Error Is

The “Are you sure you want to do this” issue usually crops up while you’re performing certain tasks on your WordPress site. For instance, you may be trying to publish a post or customize your theme when the error message appears, preventing you from completing the job.

WordPress uses security tokens, called nonces, to verify that you have the proper permissions to perform a particular action on the site. These nonces help protect your site against hacking attacks. Therefore, when the “Are you sure you want to do this” error message pops up on your screen, it means that WordPress was unable to recognize you as the rightful owner or user of your site.

Various factors can trigger this verification failure. Next, we’ll take a look at the leading causes.

Potential Causes of the “Are You Sure You Want to Do This” Error

The “Are you sure you want to do this” error message doesn’t pinpoint exactly what the problem is. However, we can narrow down the issue to a few causes.

Below are four common reasons you may be seeing this error:

1. You’ve selected an incorrect file when uploading a plugin or theme.
2. You’re using a plugin or theme with incorrect code.
3. You need to increase your PHP memory limit.
4. You’re facing a security issue due to corrupted files.

The most likely scenario is a faulty theme or plugin on your site. To figure out what is causing the issue, however, you’ll need to do some troubleshooting.

How to Fix the “Are You Sure You Want to Do This” Error in WordPress (4 Methods)

Now, let’s go through the four main methods for fixing this common WordPress error. Before proceeding, you may want to perform a backup of your site just in case something goes wrong and you need to restore an earlier version.

1. Check Your Plugins

As we mentioned earlier, the “Are you sure you want to do this” error could be caused by a faulty plugin on your site. To find out if this is the case, you can deactivate your plugins and reactivate them one by one.

Note that for this step, you’ll need to access your site’s root directory using a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) client such as FileZilla or by logging in to your web hosting account and using the file manager.

If you have a DreamHost account, you can navigate to WordPress > Managed WordPress in the sidebar, find your domain, and select Manage.

On the next page, click on the Manage Files button in the Details section. In the file manager, open the folder with your domain name.

In your site’s root directory, locate and open the wp-content folder. To deactivate your plugins, you can find the plugins folder and rename it to “plugins_test”.

Return to your WordPress site. If the error message doesn’t reappear, you know that a plugin caused the issue.

The next step is to find out which one is the culprit. First, navigate back to your site’s root directory and rename the plugins_test folder back to “plugins”.

Next, go to the Plugins page in your WordPress dashboard. Activate the first plugin, and then check to see if the error is still present. Continue activating them one by one and testing your site until you find the plugin causing the error. Then you can replace it, or reach out to its developer for help.

2. Switch to a Default WordPress Theme

If deactivating your plugins doesn’t resolve the issue, it’s time to see if your current theme may be to blame. We’ll do this by switching to the default WordPress theme.

Once again, you’ll need to access your site’s root directory. To switch to the default WordPress theme, you can open the wp-content folder, locate the themes folder, and then rename it to “themes_test”.

After renaming the folder, your site will automatically revert to the default WordPress theme. To see if this solves the problem, return to your site and carry out the same tasks that caused it before.

If the “Are you sure you want to do this” message doesn’t come up, your previous theme must have been at fault. As with your plugins, this means you may need to update or replace your theme (or get in touch with its developer for assistance).

3. Increase Your PHP Memory Limit

If disabling your plugins and switching themes didn’t do the trick, the issue might be your WordPress PHP memory limit. If your current limit is set too low, it can interrupt certain processes.

There are various ways to go about this. If you’re a DreamHost user, you can increase your PHP memory limit by editing your phrc file. For other WordPress users, you can go through your php.ini or wp-config.php file.

By default, the limit is set to 256M. However, you can add a line of code to the file to increase the limit. For example:

memory_limit = 300M

You can choose whatever value you wish. Save the file, and then reload the WordPress page displaying the error to see if this has resolved the problem.

4. Replace All Your Core WordPress Files With Fresh Copies

If the above three methods didn’t fix the error, it’s possible that some of your WordPress files became corrupted due to a recent malware or hacking attack. To confirm this, you can replace all of the WordPress core files with fresh copies.

Again, we recommend that you perform a backup of your site first. When you’re done, you’ll need to access your site via an FTP client. While you can also use the file manager in your web hosting account for this method, it will be quicker to replace your site’s files using an FTP client.

In the root directory, locate and download the wp-config.php file.

Next, you can delete all WordPress files and folders in the root directory except for the wp-content folder, which contains your plugins, themes, and media. Then download the latest version of WordPress to your computer and extract the .zip file.

Locate and copy the wp-config.php file you downloaded, and paste it in the extracted WordPress file.

The final step is to upload the WordPress files on your computer to your site. These new files will replace the ones that we deleted in the root directory.

If you’re using FileZilla, select every item in the WordPress file on your computer except the wp-content folder, and then right-click and select Upload.

The uploading process may take a few minutes. Once it is complete, you can return to your WordPress site, and the error message should be gone.

Additional Troubleshooting Tutorials

Do you want to learn how to resolve other website issues? We’ve put together several tutorials to help you troubleshoot some of the most common WordPress errors:

• How to Fix Common WordPress Errors
• How to Troubleshoot the WordPress White Screen of Death
• How to Fix the 500 Internal Server Error in WordPress
• How to Fix Syntax Errors in WordPress
• How to Fix the WordPress Not Sending Email Issue
• How to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress
• How to Fix WordPress Error 404 Not Found
• How to Fix White Text and Missing Buttons in WordPress Visual Editor
• How to Fix the Sidebar Below Content Error in WordPress
• What to Do When You’re Locked Out of the WordPress Admin Area
• How to Fix the WordPress Memory Exhausted Error By Increasing Your Site’s PHP Memory Limit
• How to Fix the “Upload: Failed to Write File to Disk” Error in WordPress

Meanwhile, if you want more information about setting up and running a WordPress site, check out our WordPress Tutorials. There, you’ll find a collection of guides designed to help you navigate the WordPress dashboard like an expert.

Banish This WordPress Error Message

The “Are you sure you want to do this” error may prevent you from performing basic WordPress tasks. While a faulty theme or plugin commonly causes it, it can also arise if you’ve reached your PHP memory limit or your site’s facing a security issue.

To resolve the “Are you sure you want to do this” error, you can try these four solutions:

1. Deactivate your plugins and reactivate them one at a time.
2. Revert to the default WordPress theme.
3. Increase your PHP memory limit.
4. Replace all WordPress core files with fresh copies.

Troubleshooting WordPress issues can be time-consuming. If you want to spend less time dealing with WordPress errors, you might want to consider switching to DreamPress. Our managed WordPress hosting plans come with full technical support for site owners, as well as daily backups to help keep your content safe.

Updated on January 6, 2023

“Are you sure want to do this” WordPress Error

From time to time, you may encounter various errors in WordPress such as – WordPress HTTP Image Upload Error, 503 Service Unavailable Error, Parse Error: Syntax Error Unexpected, “This Account Has Been Suspended”, WordPress Not Sending Email, Sorry, This File Type Is Not Permitted For Security Reasons or Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress. These common errors are useful because they tell you exactly what the problem is.

On the other hand, there are unnecessary mistakes such as “Are you sure you want to do this” and “WordPress keeps logging out” errors. The most frustrating thing about this particular error is that it mean you made a small mistake or, worse, that your WordPress site has been hacked or infected with a malware. Yes, you are right, WordPress security has a lot to do with this error.

Usually such errors pop up when you are trying to complete an action specific to WordPress Permissions and WordPress cannot verify that access for you. Here the WordPress nounces comes into play, they are used to validate your actions as an owner of your account and check if you have required privileges and roles assigned.

If WordPress isn’t able to verify the security tokens, the error displays. In case your site is subject to a XSS attack, DDOS attack or Brute force attack on WordPress, such error can pop up anytime. It could also occur if your theme is infect with malware or any other kind of WordPress vulnerabilities that might be present in your site.

These require a thorough scan and perform WordPress malware removal or cleanup. You can use our WordPress scanner to scan your site for any malware of vulnerabilities that might be present.

For other causes of the error, you can try the troubleshooting steps and fixes below.

Too many factors can lead to such kind of errors. That’s why WordPress is unable to provide information to point you in the right direction to fix it.

In this article, we will show you how to fix “Are you sure you want to do this WordPress Error” as well as WordPress keeps logging out problem also known as WordPress session timeout issue.

What is “Are you sure you want to do this WordPress Error”?

“Are you sure you want to do this?” is an error that usually appears when nonce verification fails, and the main elements most likely to cause this error are plugins and themes not using this feature properly.

Nonces are unique keys that add a layer of security to protect WordPress URLs, forms, and Ajax calls from abuse. They make sure that the script comes from your website and not from an external source like a hacker trying to access your website.

In practical terms, you will see that error on several occasions, either by uploading a new theme, trying to install a plugin, making changes to theme settings and plugins or even uploading images and saving changes to an entry.

When you see this error you will also see a link that says “Please try again”, but by clicking on the link for a hundred times, you will always see the same error unless you do something to solve it.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” error can happen while you’re trying to accomplish a wide variety of tasks such as:

• Publishing post or page
• Inserting an image into a post or page
• Customizing WP theme
• Creating tags or categories
• Uploading a theme or plugin
• Updating WordPress core or plugins and themes
• …any other administrator tasks

Common Reasons

Here are some of the most common reasons when this error can occur.

• You selected an incorrect file when trying to upload a theme or plugin
• An improperly coded theme or plugin
• You reached your PHP memory limit
• A security issue

Before exploring troubleshooting steps and fixes, it’s important to explore the possibility that there’ isn’t any security issue since this would be a serious problem that would require special attention in order to protect your site.

How to fix Are you sure you want to do this error in WordPress?

Most often, this error is caused by a plugin or theme installed on your site. To search for the plugin or theme causing the problem, you must disable all your plugins.

There are several other possible culprits and solutions.

Check the plugins

Even deactivating a plugin can cause this problem, so if you really want to know if the culprit is a plugin, you should actually delete it physically.

Now, if you do not want to delete the plugin, access your physical WordPress installation via FTP or cPanel (or the file manager of your hosting) and completely rename the plugins folder, which you already know is in /wp-content/plugins/. You can change it to /wp-content/pluginsOFF/ for example.

Once this is done, WordPress deactivates all the plugins, and if you access the plugins screen of your WordPress you will see a warning that there is no such folder because it is true, it does not exist, at least not with the name it should.

Now, with all the really inactive plugins, it’s when you should try to do the same thing you did when you saw the ” Are you sure you want to do this?”

If the error does not appear, then you already know that one of the plugins was responsible, so it’s time to discover the culprit.

Rename the plugins folder to its original name and start activating one by one, and after activating each test to see if the error occurs. When you leave, you already know that the culprit is the one you just activated.

Check the themes

If you have not found the error by testing plugins, then the next possible culprit may be the active issue.

First of all, make a backup copy of your active theme on your computer and make sure you have installed the last default WordPress theme.

Then physically delete the active theme by FTP or cPanel, deleting the theme folder. What WordPress will do will be to return to the default WordPress theme, which you must have installed.

Now, again, try to reproduce the action that showed the error. If you don’t see it anymore, it’s that the culprit was the subject and you have to download a clean copy or, in the worst case, use another one that doesn’t get you in trouble.

Note: sometimes you may be lucky that it is a very silly mistake, but also typical of some themes, whose folder includes spaces in its name. In this case, rename the theme folder from, for example, /wp-content/themes/my theme folder/  to /wp-content/themes/my-theme-folder/.

Edit the PHP.INI file

If all of the above fails, we fear that now we have to go to heavy artillery and modify the php.ini file, which contains the main PHP configurations of your web hosting.

The main problem is that php.ini is not a WordPress installation file so it can be located in a folder that your hosting provider does not access.

If you do not see it, you will have to talk to your provider, and they will tell you how you can access it, or that they are the ones who make the changes for you.

In any case, what should be done would be to modify the following values:

PHP

1. post_max_size=20M
2. upload_max_filesize=16M
3. max_execution_time = 100

To something superior, like:

PHP

1. post_max_size=100M
2. upload_max_filesize=128M
3. max_execution_time = 300

Once the changes have been made, you will have to restart the Apache server, or if you are in a shared hosting contact your hosting provider to do so.

Check the security

Click on Update old security keys under the Issues section, then review how often you would like a reminder to update your security keys. This step is optional, but it’s also helpful because it increases your site’s security.

You can choose from the following times:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 1 year

Once you have made your selection in the drop down box, go ahead and click the Regenerate Security Keys button to update your site’s security tokens automatically.

Disable all your plugins

If the previous solution did not work, you can try to disable all your plugins. Incompatibility can be the cause of the failure.

If you have access to the administration of your site, first disable the plugin, especially the most suspicious ones (those that you have just installed, configured, or updated).

Go to plugin> Installed plugins.

Disable a plugin

Then reactivate them one by one and see what happens. If the error reappears as soon as you have reactivated a specific extension, you have found the culprit.

If your dashboard is inaccessible, use your FTP and rename the plugins folder (call it for example plugins_test ). The latter is in the wp-content folder.

The path is: wp-content> plugins

The plugins folder on an FTP

But be careful, do not stop there. Once the folder is renamed, try to display your site again.

As the plugins folder has changed names, WordPress will automatically disable all plugins.

Then rename it correctly and return to the Administration Extensions page.

Everything will be disabled, and you will even have notifications that will mention it to you.

You can now reactivate your extensions one by one to find the problematic one.

Change your theme

It still does not work? Try to replace your theme with the Twenty Seventeen theme, present by default on each new installation (with the next version of WP, the 5.0., A new default theme will appear: Twenty Nineteen).

On your Dashboard, go to Appearance> Themes. Install and activate the theme.

Twenty Nineteen WordPress Theme

If you cannot find it because you deleted it, click Add Theme.

Add a WordPress theme

You should find it at the top of the next page, on the themes tab highlighted.

Replace the wp-admin and wp-includes folders

Is the error still and always there?

If you answered “yes” , some of the core WordPress files may have been corrupted.

Try to replace the wp-admin and wp-includes folders. For this, download the latest version of WordPress and unzip the archive.

On your FTP, rename folders wp-admin and wp-includes in wp-admin_old/wp-includes_old (it’s faster than deleting them), and send the new.

Uninstall WordPress

Then you need to download a new copy of WordPress on your computer. You can download it from the WordPress.org website as a zip file.

Go ahead and extract the zip file to your computer and download the files from the ‘wordpress’ folder to your web server via FTP.

Once you have downloaded all the files, rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.

Now, you need to edit the new wp-config file to enter your WordPress database and your table information. You can view the old wp-config.php file that you downloaded previously to enter all the information.

You must add all sections except ” Authentication Unique Keys and Salts “. Delete all lines beginning with define in this section.

/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.

*

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}

* You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.

*

* @since 2.6.0

*/

define('AUTH_KEY',         '`+7nTNb<AwtbLA$L-Q7amn;~|wH)ljXv2~TpbP?mLA+M`8H|n1`/Lz-GmAQL{4fB');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  '/gkAjhhJe`iwO)V-p=J<cN_ +6D{YhrM|=E#C7gD}]c2w~OJ} y}eY^,HWn&-j:a'); define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'PtDl2V|01oIXDpq^K,IH-8|rhT +T(ZMpuLq>UD?|W)b3gMfG~g[zr8N6}m%MZ|L');

define('NONCE_KEY',        ']Zj5i*hHlsUWKg2|>YF,X+xpd-_`I[nFmA6ZLw~;EW7g0.s5EaZCAJ=j]./5z^X~');

define('AUTH_SALT',        'e*l:hUsddFIxm1E7y-n#<a0|u- #+SsS@-#$vNz}EY4rY~-x|0_6=Q!TR=MMxUL?'); define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'n]^c9nY>_}3,4)J]S sM6-MI3aB#Qk<Re^j#Lu_|x^*BhO.54aZQTtzJeCo5DWAg'); define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'Ba3kd1&J$~~`(|uJ0:v;w+DJ3xW}.B#R9J*r|.+V}*sTuK &8db-Mn+[boHW3{[/'); define('NONCE_SALT', 'nBv-U1qfkCZxS|13%hYdHz*s1^){.KSZWm1A^${`r!d5;EqrH:>1Xx`pwt6?**i}');

Now, save and upload your wp-config.php file to your website.

That’s it, you have updated your WordPress installation successfully. You can now continue and try to reproduce the error on your website.

WordPress Keeps logging out Issue [FIX]

Have you ever found yourself in the position where WordPress prevents you from logging in, following an unplanned disconnection? Probably yes, like the number of other WordPress users.

Recently, one of the readers of the site has encountered this problem of repetitive disconnection. He followed all generally recommended troubleshooting tips, such as:

• Disable the plugin
• Empty the cache
• Clear browser cookies
• Even restore WordPress from backups.

None of these solutions worked, and each new attempt ends in a disconnection.

If you too are facing this problem of wordpress keeps you logging out, here is a solution that should help you put it away from bad memories. We will be sharing with you how to fix a WordPress keeps logging out problem.

Why does WordPress insist on logging out?

In order to understand why WordPress keeps logging out  also known as WordPress session timeout issue. you need to understand how the WordPress login process works.

WordPress sets a cookie in your browser to authenticate a login session. This cookie is created with the WordPress URL stored in the Settings section of your site. If you want to access your WordPress site from a URL that does not match the one saved in your Admin console settings, WordPress will not be able to authenticate your session.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the WordPress URL and the site address are two different URLs (one is www, the other is not).

Repair the untimely log out

A simple solution to this connection problem is to make sure that you have the same URL in your website address and in the WordPress web address, in the settings of your admin console. This means that you must choose a URL with www or without www and indicate it in both fields.

• Log in to your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings
• Correct WordPress URL settings

If you cannot access the administration area, you can update these fields by editing the wp-config.php file.

Log in to your site using an FTP program or file manager from your webhost, locate the wp-config.php file in the root directory of your site, and download this file to your desktop. That being done, open it with a text editor such as notepad. Add above the last line of the file.

require_once (ABSPATH. 'wp-settings.php');

the code below is everything!

define ( 'WP_HOME', 'http: // mysite.com');

define ( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http: // mysite.com');

If you prefer to use the www in the URL, use the following code

define ( 'WP_HOME', 'http: // www.mysite.com');

define ( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http: //www.mysite.com');

Do not forget to replace mysite.com by the name of your domain.

Other Tips To Fix This Issue.

If you have ever seen this error, how have you solved it? Did any of these tricks serve you or have you used another one?

In most cases, this error occurs when we try to upload a theme, a plugin, or a media (photo, video, and more) to our WordPress. We will solve it in two steps: first, we will identify the problem and then we will put a solution.

Step 1: We identify the problem with phpinfo ()

What we will do is create a php file at the root of our theme so that it shows us the information about the php settings of the web. It’s as simple as creating an info.php file for example, and writing these lines inside:

<? php

phpinfo ();

?>

Now if we save it and go to mydomain.com/info.php we will get all the information about php. What interests us are two configurations specifically: post_max_size and upload_max_size.

We can search for them with the command Ctrl + F in the browser. What we will surely discover is that the current value (the first column) is less than the weight of the file we wanted to upload and that is why it gives us an error. Let’s see how to fix it.

Step 2: We modify the htaccess

Now we will go to the root of our web page and modify the .htaccess file. The procedure is as simple as adding these two lines to the end of the document:

php_value upload_max_filesize 20M

php_value post_max_size 20M

In this way, we will assign an upload limit of 20MB, which for most cases, is more than enough for any media we want to upload.

Now we can retest, and the file that we couldn’t upload before should be uploaded without a problem.

Warning: Sometimes, this method will not work since some hosting providers do not allow you to control certain php values ​​from .htaccess. In this case, you should simply ask your hosting to increase these two values.

Why this solution works?

Technically speaking, www is a subdomain in itself. This means that URLs with www and without www actually represent two different domains. By updating the URLs with the same address, you solve the problem.

In addition, it is important to note that the incorrect settings in the Site Web Address and WordPress Web Address fields may also cause redirection problems in WordPress.

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