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Redirect to HTTPS not working in WordPress

Posted by Alex On May 21, 2021

This is not an obvious problem, because for some pages the redirect to HTTPS works, but for some it does not. I ran into this problem on WordPress quite by accident. Therefore, if you are a webmaster with WordPress sites, then I would recommend that you check your sites too. Redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS is quite simple, you need...

How to find out all DNS records of sites behind CloudFlare

Posted by Alex On April 24, 2021

How to list all DNS records for a domain Using the dig command, you can display all types of DNS records for the specified domain at once, but it does not work in all cases: dig zalinux.ru ANY To query all types of DNS records, but limiting the number of displayed sections only by the response section, add the “+noall...

Permanent message “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On April 18, 2021

When updating plugins, themes or WordPress engine, the site is automatically closed for users and instead they see the message “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute”. This is normal and the site reopens immediately after the update is complete. But if the updates were interrupted, for example, due to your unstable Internet connection, then the website...

What does “Programmable Search Engine revenue sharing changes start April 30th, 2021” mean?

Posted by Alex On April 2, 2021

The other day I received this letter from AdSense: Programmable Search Engine revenue sharing changes start April 30th, 2021 Beginning April 30th, 2021, we will discontinue revenue sharing on the following search engines: • The public URL - a link provided for a Google hosted public page for your engine that hosts both the search box and the search results • The Google hosted layout,...

Search engine ad: why nothing was found and why it doesn’t show ads

Posted by Alex On April 1, 2021

The ability to set up custom Google searches on your site has been available for at least a decade. Including displaying ads. But now there is a special block in AdSense called “Search engine”. What is the profitability of search pages Approximately 1 person out of 100 visitors to the site will search for something on it. About 1 out...

What is suip.biz website? Analogs and mirrors suip.biz

Posted by Alex On February 23, 2021

Site suIP.biz SuIP.biz (short for “super IP”) started out as a service with several pages for various actions with IP addresses: compilation of IP ranges of countries, cities, Internet providers getting information about IP and IPv6 address (location, ISP, whois) showing the user his IP Subsequently, the site acquired calculators and converters for IP and IPv6 addresses: IP Subnet Calculator...

Are sticky (floating) AdSense blocks allowed

Posted by Alex On April 17, 2020

There is confusion around this issue, for several reasons: AdSense sticky blocks are allowed but not always and not for anybody AdSense Ad Policies are extensive and scattered across documents On the AdSense support forum, different opinions are expressed, including opposing opinions on this issue Who is allowed to use AdSense floating blocks Sticky location blocks are allowed on Ad...

How to find out the publication date of any article

Posted by Alex On April 13, 2020

The world is changing rapidly, the information published 5 years ago is rarely valuable at the present time, because everything has changed too much: the mentioned store no longer exists, and a huge shopping mall was built in its place; the procedure for obtaining a visa has changed; the proposed service has lost relevance along with the disappearance of a...

Multi-button mouse for increased productivity

Posted by Alex On March 6, 2020

Most of us hold onto this appliance most of the day. I mean a computer mouse. This is my mouse from 2011-2012 to January 2016 (I had to replace it due to problems with the left mouse button, we fought to the last and I even set the right button to work as LMB): Here is my mouse from January...

WordPress: A critical error occurred on the site – impossible to enter the control panel (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On February 21, 2020

After updating the plugins in WordPress on my VPS server, the site stopped opening. And it was even impossible to open the control panel – a message was displayed during all attempts (you can see a screenshot in the header of this article): A critical error occurred on the site. Please check the incoming admin mail for further instructions. Learn...