After migrating a WordPress site to a new domain (renaming the root folder) I found that my new site kept forwarding to the development domain. As I was unable get into the admin screen of WordPress to change the base URL of the site I had to alter it directly in the database.

The path to the base URL of the site is:

Server: yourServer.com > Database: Database_name > Table: wp_options

In the options table you’ll find a value named ‘URL’, change this to the new domain name and you should be good to go.

Just spent the last hour trying to figure out why a simple php form was breaking WordPress. The answer was a variable name clash. I used a variable called ‘name’ in my form which seems to be linked the WP tag tags (!).

To get things working I renamed ‘name’ to ‘signUpName’.

Whilst scrabbling around for answers I did come across a good article about a security vulnerability when using the PHP_Self command, it’s well worth a read before you build your next form.