Category: Wordpress Administration

Asked AI for this script to create an MU plugin that I could install with WP-CLI to redirect all 404’s to 410 – Page permanently gone.While it might seem odd to those who redirect to the homepage, I had thousands of missing pages across several hundred blogs that had been removed for various reasons. And GSC was showing all these 404’s as failed. Hence the plugin. And yes, I could of used Apache .htaccess, but this was easier I ran this as /root in its own folder Command 1 — Set the folder name first Rename wp-404-to-410 to whatever you…

This is a Step by Step for Solving This Particular Issue with NameCheap Change [account] and [IP]to your servers settings. This was for a Namecheap registered domain. You will need to adjust if using another registar. All cmds where run as root, except for those noted as being run in the Terminal under the relevant cPanel account. This assumes your cPanel account has ‘shell’ or ‘Jailed Shell’ enabled What the issue was The domain [account] was registered/hosted in DNS at Namecheap, using these authoritative nameservers: dns1.registrar-servers.com.dns2.registrar-servers.com. cPanel had generated the local DKIM key, but the public DKIM TXT record was…