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  • WordPress Admin area doesn’t load CSS Styles and Scripts

    Issue After moving a WordPress site from a development environment area to the production (which involved the domain change), the wp-admin area doesn’t load any CSS Styles or Scripts. Basically, the admin section is completely broken. The website front-end is not affected and working fine. Browser Dev Console shows 403 (Forbidden) errors loading files wp-admin/load-styles.php and wp-admin/load-styles.php.…

  • WordPress Backup (BackWPup) warning – File name is too long to be saved correctly…

    Issue WordPress website backups using the BackWPup plugin complete with following warnings: WARNING: File name “wp-content/pluglns/woocommerce/packages/woocommerce-blocks/build/very-very-long-file-name.js” is too long to be saved correctly In Tar archive! Resolution As the message suggests, the issue is caused by file name length exceeding the Tar archive limit. The same limitation affects Tar GZip archive format. The workaround was to change…

  • Can’t install WordPress Theme – The link you followed has expired

    Issue Cannot install a WordPress theme by uploading a .zip file. The following message is shown: The link you followed has expired.Please try again. Resolution The error message above doesn’t give many clues, but this issue is caused by uploading a theme’s .zip file that is larger than the web server’s upload limit. You can…

  • Temporary disable MFA for a single user in Microsoft Office 365

    The benefits of MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) are pretty obvious and this should be enabled everywhere and every time. However, as an admin, you sometimes have to log in as a user to troubleshoot certain issues, and in those cases, if the user is not around, MFA can be causing certain issues. Often recommended way to…

  • Configure DMARC for Microsoft Office 365 Custom Domains

    DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) works with SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) to authenticate mail senders. This is just one additional tool in the never-ending fight against phishing and spoofing. DMARC also instructs receiving servers on how to proceed when incoming emails fail SPF or DKIM validation. Before you…

  • Restore deleted Microsoft / Office 365 Shared Mailbox

    If you restore an Office 365 Shared Mailbox via the Microsoft 365 Admin Center > Users > Deleted Users, it will restore the associated user account in Blocked state with ExRemoved… address, but the Shared Mailbox itself will still be nowhere to be found. The proper way to restore deleted Shared Mailbox is via PowerShell:…

  • Nord VPN on Synology NAS stopped working – Authorization Required

    Issue Nord VPN OpenVPN profile on Synology NAS suddenly stopped working. After trying to establish a connection, the following error pops up for a few seconds: VPNFailed to establish network connection.Authorization Required. Resolution To set up an OpenVPN profile, you must use Service Credentials instead of your normal NordVPN username and password. In this case,…

  • Joomla 4 Update: Could not open update site…

    Issue Joomla 4 Extensions Updater shows the following warning at the top of the page: Update: Could not open update site #59 “Lab5 – Update Server (lab5_captcha)”, URL: https://downloadserver.lab5.ch/updates.joomla.xml?extension=plg_lab5_captcha/extension.xml  This doesn’t affect functionality, other extensions are updated with no issues. The update site in question is not showing in System > Update Sites. Resolution The site…

  • Joomla 4 does not save new menus: Save failed with the following error … MenuTable::_getNode(1, id) failed.

    Issue After upgrading Joomla v3 to Joomla v4 (4.3.4), website admin cannot add any new menu items. The following error is displayed when trying to save a new menu item: Save failed with the following error: Joomla\Component\Menus\Administrator\Table\MenuTable::_getNode(1, id) failed. Existing menus are working fine, they can also be edited, it’s only new menu items that…

  • Cannot update Joomla v3 to v4 (Update Unavailable)

    Issue Joomla is refusing to download an update from V3.10 to V4.3. After enabling the Joomla Next update channel, the following message is displayed: Update unavailableAn update to Joomla 4.3.4 was found, but it wasn’t possible to download that update. There are three possibilities why this happens:– Your host doesn’t support the minimum requirements for…

  • Can’t update UniFi Cloud Key Software

    Issue Admins cannot update Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Key software (from 6.x to 7.x) via UniFi Controller Settings Web GUI. The update is detected and UI shows that Cloud Key is updating, but in the end, nothing happens… Resolution The issue was resolved by initiating the update from the Cloud Key local configuration admin panel which can…

  • Synology NAS HyperBackup – Only the owner of this backup task…

    Issue Synology DS916+ NAS is backing up data to a remote Synology NAS via HyperBackup NAS-to-NAS backup task. The destination Synology NAS device failed and was replaced by a similar Synology DiskStation unit while keeping the same hard drives and data. After the replacement the HyperBackup tasks fail with the following error: Only the owner…