Solution for: Error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress

On some clients' website built using WordPress, there was this error:

Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress

If you also have a WordPress website where you are seeing the error "Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress" when attempting to login, please find the solution below.

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How to add cookie consent notification and cookie policy page to WordPress website ?

European Union (EU) laws require websites to give EU visitors information about cookies used on website. In many cases, these laws also require websites to obtain consent from the visitor.

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How to add custom ads.txt to Blogger / WordPress / Other websites?

What is Ads.txt ?

Authorized Digital Sellers, or ads.txt is an IAB initiative that helps ensure that the digital ad inventory is only sold through sellers you identify as authorized. Creating your own ads.txt file gives you more control over who is allowed to sell ads on your website and helps prevent counterfeit inventory from being presented to advertisers. An ads.txt file can help buyers identify genuine inventory and help publisher receive more advertiser spend that otherwise might have gone toward counterfeit inventory.

In this post we shall see "How to add ads.txt to Blogger / WordPress / Other websites?"..

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How to stop spam subscribers on WordPress email subscribe form?

Email subscription forms are very essential for any website to let visitors subscribe to new contents. Email subscription forms will also let website owners collect emails which can be used for online marketing. However, mail subscribe forms may also attract a lot of spam subscribers. In this post, we shall see how to stop spam subscribers on WordPress email subscribe form using free plugins.

Before we discuss how to stop spam subscribers, let's discuss briefly how to include a Subscribe Form in WordPress.

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How to resolve 500 Internal Server Error on WordPress after migration?

Migrated a WordPress site from local development computer to a production server and encountering 500 Internal Server Errors when visiting posts or pages like the error message below:

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

In this post we shall see How to resolve 500 Internal Server Error on WordPress after migration?

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Useful WordPress PLugin to resolve HTTPS insecure content and mixed content warnings on WordPress

Nowadays, most recent browsers expect websites to have HTTPS in the URL, meaning SSL certificate installed on server, which makes websites which used to be accessible over simple, insecure HTTP protocol to more secured HTTPS. In one of the previous post -I posted about "How to fix partially encrypted/mixed content errors after switching from HTTP to HTTPs (SSL)". In this post, we shall discuss particularly on "How to resolve HTTPS insecure content and mixed content warnings on WordPress Websites?"

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How to create a WordPress Child Theme?

WordPress has tons of free and premium themes you can use for almost any kind of website. But there may be a need to do some customization here and there to fit your need. Customization should not be done on a base WordPress theme as the changes will be lost when the theme is updated to a new version. That is why it is always important to use a WordPress child theme instead. In this post we shall discuss about how to create a Child Theme in WordPress.

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Remove or modify Copyright From WordPress Free Theme's Child Theme Footer

Remove or modify Copyright or credit links from WordPress Theme's Child Theme Footer? The title seems a little confusing, but what I mean is if you want to remove or modify the copyright link in the footer of a child theme whose parent theme is a WordPress Theme wherein the creators allow editing or removing the credit links. Phew! Well, I specifically mentioned "allow to remove the credits" because, "free theme" doesn't mean we can always freely remove credits from themes wherever we want. And since it is the work of others, it is recommended to credit the creators though I know many people remove the credits just like that. 

Anyway, in this post we shall discuss how to remove or modify the copyright credit link from the footer of a child theme of a WordPress theme, which allows removing the credit links.

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How to Fix the HTTP File Upload Error in WordPress?

How to Fix the HTTP File Upload Error in WordPress?
Today, I encountered an HTTP error when uploading file (a pdf) to WordPress website. While editing a post or page, on clicking 'Add Media', the file seems to upload as the progress bar progresses but after a while WordPress shows HTTP error. In this post, I would like to share how I resolved or fixed the HTTP File Upload Error in WordPress.

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Issue importing WordPress database from development to live server: 1273 - Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci'

So I was trying to import a MySQL database exported from local development machine to a live server and I got the error thrown by phpMyAdmin:

#1273 - Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci'

On some systems, the error could be: Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci'

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How to fix WordPress plugin update fail - Plugin update failed ?

Alright, so I had some notifications in a WordPress website to update some plugins, which is damn easy in WordPress. Yes, just click update and finish. But no, this time, a new situation had cropped up. On clicking on 'Update' from the interface, I got the message "Update Failed: Plugin update failed". I immediately turned to Google, searched for solutions others have tried for this WordPress plugin update failed error. Here are a few things findings and solution that worked for me. 

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Useful WordPress Plugins for Admin User Interface Customization, Maintenance Mode etc.

WordPress is a pretty easy to use Content Management System (CMS) for blogging and for development of various kinds of websites. WordPress after installation can be used as is pretty easily but there are lots of things in the WordPress admin area that some users don’t need to see or use. Requirement to customize the admin pages might arise to hide certain things that are not required to be displayed to other users granted access to manage the website- such as Authors, Editors and Contributors etc. For example WordPress by default shows some default widgets such as WordPress news in the Dashboard area. This may not be required by some to be shown to Authors/Editors. Similarly, admins may like to hide some post meta-data as too many data can be overwhelming to some. Admins can decide what is appropriate for their users to see or not. For all such requirements, there are plugins available for customization of Admin User Interface.

Some useful WordPress Plugins for Admin User Interface Customization

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How to edit or hide "Thank you for creating with WordPress" link in WordPress admin pages?

If you are a WordPress website admin, you might have noticed that there is a link in every admin page - "Thank you for creating with WordPress"  - at the bottom. Now if you have created website using WordPress, it is okay to give a little credit. But this link is visible only to admins and not to visitors. So it is actually useless. In this post, we shall see how to change or edit the "Thank you for creating with WordPress" link in WordPress admin pages.

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How to Disable or Hide WordPress Dashboard Widgets?

If you have a WordPress website installed, you might have seen that there are some default widgets on the WordPress dashboard as shown in the screenshot above. The WordPress dashboard is the landing page right after an admin logs in. The default widgets (as of WordPress version 4.8 ) are - "At a glance", "Activity", Quick Draft" and "WordPress events and news". There may also be some other widgets available by default from plugins we installed. In this post, we will see how to disable or disable unnecessary widgets from the WordPress dashboard.

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Display YouTube videos in a gallery in WordPress website and how to get YouTube API Key

YouTube Videos Gallery in WordPress

There may come time when we need to show YouTube videos on websites. As most of us may already know, we can easily embed YouTube videos in web pages by simply copying the YouTube embed code from a particular YouTube video and put it in web page to display the YouTube video. Similarly, we can show YouTube library.

In this post, we shall discuss how to add a YouTube videos gallery in WordPress website that I did for one project recently. The requirement is to post videos on a YouTube channel and show the same to the WordPress YouTube Gallery to display.

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How to receive emails from website using contact forms?

Contact Forms are great to let website visitors contact you for any queries or for specific purpose. Contact Forms are found on most websites nowadays. When we build a website, we usually include a “Contact form" on the website for users to contact us. Once we buy a domain and hosting services from a service provider to host the website, we also usually get email address along with it. And it looks professional to have emails with the website domain name instead of using internet email such as gmail or Yahoo mail. In this post, we shall see how to setup Contact Form and how to receive emails sent from the website.

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How to hide featured image on single WordPress posts and pages content?

The 'featured image' feature in WordPress is a way to assign a separate image to be displayed as post thumbnails in post feeds such as recent content, related content, category posts, etc. But there are times when a developer may want to hide the featured image on individual posts and pages, show on some posts and not on others. In this post, we shall see how to hide featured image on WordPress single posts and/or pages content.

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Must Have Free WordPress Plugins For Any WordPress Site To Get Going

WordPress, which started as just a blogging system, has evolved to be used as full content management system (CMS). A fresh installation of WordPress is just enough to get going but eventually you would need to install plugins to extend the functionality of the WordPress. WordPress is Open-Source and there are thousands of plugins and widgets and themes available to extend the functionality of WordPress, some of which are free and some are premium ( paid).

In this post, we shall discuss some of the must-have Free WordPress plugins necessary to get going with any WordPress sites.

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WordPress: Configure Captcha for Contact Form 7 Wordpress plugin

By far, Contact Form 7 could be the most popular contact plugin for WordPress platform. If we check the plugin's page, there are lot installs and really positive reviews. If you are looking for a contact form plugin, get Contact Form 7. I am also using the same for all websites done for clients on WordPress platform. 

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
- From Contact Form 7 Page

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How useful is WordPress strong password generator, practically?

I was not using WordPress actively until today. I have a few clients I helped built websites using the WordPress CMS platform and I had to do some maintenance on them. And yes, I also had to create some new users for one of the client (non technical client is an over statement here. Never mind, why I had to do it for them. ) . Then I stumbled upon the WordPress's new "Strong password auto generator", that, as the name implies, generates a strong password for a user in WordPress. 

I googled and I came across this post on WordPress.org (Passwords in 4.3: Strong by Default) where it says:

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