If someone types in an address or follows a link that no longer exists, it will remove the “slug” from the domain name and do a search within your blog for similar posts, then redirects them to the first match.
If it cannot find anything, it will redirect to your custom 404 page.
Two of my fave plugins have caused an absolute nightmare to my servers today.. sorry for anyone who visited :(
BackupWordpress, was going over-board and backing up multiple times a day (not even an option in the settings) and doing all my blogs and sites, subdomains, etc.. basically getting carried away.
Bluehost Suspended my sites, when I [...]
When trying to view my posts in Wordpress on this site, I get an error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/public_html/ etc. in edit-post-rows.php
I also get the same error when I try to look at my Plugin Directory
Fatal error: Allowed memory [...]
Wow, I just enabled TweetMyBlog and within a minute, all of my domains hosted on one particular server @ Bluehost died with the server message "Suspended" for too much CPU data usage.
I called Bluehost immediately and they said.. did you recently do something to your Wordpress blog? I didn’t think the two were related but [...]
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