I am trying to run a backup of the site on localhost and am getting this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected character 0x00, expected end of file, located at address/public_html/wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-block-pattern -categories-controller.php line 225 I tried the following: 1. ...

I am setting up a development environment for a project. So it already has a live site and a staging site. I also want to add a local development environment so that I can first check changes I make locally on the staging site and then push them to the live site. But now I just crashed the staging site. My process is to push the repo from the live site to gitlab and from gitlab to my local machine. I made a change to test this, pushing from local to gitlab and then from...

Which is better, cPanel hosting or WordPress hosting?

wordpress does not work, cannot update, site health check shows this error: "Your installation of WordPress prompts for FTP credentials to perform updates. (Your site is performing updates over FTP due to file ownership. ta.....

Loaded XAMPP on a laptop with Windows 10, then loaded WordPress.org. visited /localhost/fixitwp and saw "Hello World", then quit the same day. The next day Firefox can't find "localhost". What's stopping me? Do I need to reinstall everything? Thank you for your help.

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_register_block_style_variations_from_theme_json_partials() in C:\xampp\htdocs\ project2\wp-includes\class-wp-theme-json-re...

I'm using XAMPP as my localhost for developing my website.XAMPP is having some problems initializing MySQL, which has been happening globally for a few weeks now. There is no simple generic solution for this error, but apparently reinstalling XAMPP is possible, so I did so. Before reinstalling, I created two backup folders, one for "htdocs" and one for "mysql/data", so that I wouldn't lose my site. But...

I would like to change the current theme to a new theme. I already have a live preview of my favorite theme. So what happens if I activate the theme? Will I lose the previous theme? Can I revert to the previous theme? Is the content lost? I assume the content will be retained and just rearrange the content to best match the new theme and look - right? My current theme is Modular, and I know it's outdated and may soon be unsupported.

 Cpanel's backup. I put that site backup on xampp localhost. Now, when I put the active theme folder in Themes > wp-content, the theme folder shows some serious errors and the screen says that your site has a serious error. Why is this happening?