Your WordPress database is storing thousands of records that will never be used again.
Post revisions. Expired transients. Spam comments. Orphaned metadata.
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Ondrej Konvicka restored a backup. His website came back up for two seconds, then crashed again.
A misconfiguration allowed WordPress to auto-update, and it was included in every backup.
The fix was to change the configuration hidden inside a backup.
Here's how he did it 馃У
Most backup plugins have the same blind spot: they need WordPress working to restore.
Locked out of wp-admin? Your backup is right there. You just can't reach the restore button.
Here's how to fix that 馃У
"There has been a critical error on this website" usually doesn't mean you've been hacked.
It means WordPress caught a fatal PHP error.
Most of the time, it's a plugin, a theme, or a PHP setting fighting with something else.
Here's how to fix it 馃У