Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could turn your blog site into an online store too? Well, you could avail this opportunity by just using the WooCommerce plugin on your WordPress site. Its affinity in working with WordPress makes it the best option to choose if in any case, you are thinking of starting your online store. WooCommerce is good with transactions, shopping carts, etc. Everything you need to have in order to start your online store, WooCommerce provides you with all of that.
Nevertheless, every online website comes across errors, every now and then. So, it becomes our prime responsibility to acknowledge how to handle those common errors. Generally, the error or issues occurs due to the general technical difficulties that either occur on the WordPress site or WooCommerce Plugin.
Below is the list of tips with common errors that you might come across on WooCommerce.
How to avoid “Email Notification Errors” on WooCommerce?
Sometimes, what happens is you might not get notified about the actions that are being carried out on your eCommerce site and on the other hand there could be a possibility that your customer is not notified about their transactions. So, follow the following steps to avoid this issue:
– Sign in to your “WordPress Dashboard”.
– On the side you will see the WooCommerce option, select that and a sidebar will appear.
– Now, click on the ‘Settings’ option from that list.
– Now a window will appear, and you will have to select the ‘Emails’ option (you will see it in the top bar).
– Find and go to the ‘Email Sender Option’.
– Lastly, fill up the “From” address and “From” name tabs.
How to avoid “PHP fatal error” on WooCommerce?
This error occurs either if the provided memory is worn out or the execution time increases the provided maximum execution time. These two are the main causes of this error and there are different steps to be followed to resolve these two errors respectively.
Steps to follow to resolve memory worn out Error:
To resolve this issue you just have to increase the memory’s limit PHP memory size limit. There are very simple steps to follow to resolve this issue
– Try and get access to the ‘wp-config.php’ file at the backend files of your website using FTP.
– As soon as you get access to it, select it and choose the ‘View/Edit’ option.
– Then put this line to the code: (‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’,’256M’).
Steps to follow to resolve exceeded execution time:
– Get access to your website’s backend files using FTP.
– Find the “.htaccess file”.
– Select this file and choose the “View/Edit” option.
– Then put this line to the code: ‘php_value_max_execution_time300’.
If still the error persists, then you better call the host of your website.
How to fix the “Remote image” Error on WooCommerce?
This error largely happens once you are using importation images from another link or URL. This causes obstruction of the requests in your central server from your online WooCommerce Store.
The simple resolution that could help with this error is to physically transfer the images to your ‘wp-content/upload directory. When you are done with this, you are good to go on to run these images freely. Lastly, if the error still persists you better contact your domain’s host and ask them to extend your server’s ‘max-input-time’.
How to fix 404 configuration error on WooCommerce?
First of all, check your URL, there might be a problem with redirecting because of the changed URL. So check the link from which you were trying to open the site. Secondly, there is a file called ‘.htaccess file’. This file is associated with the website’s hyperlink structure. The error in this file could also lead to the wrong redirection of the URL. Therefore this could be resolved if we regenerate a new .htaccess file and if that also does not solve the problem paste the following code to reformat the file.
BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
How to fix 500 internal server Errors on WooCommerce?
Whenever this error occurs there are only, two things that could have been caused is that is either there is some issue with the .htaccess file or the memory of your site is full. Basically .htaccess file helps in forming a medium of communication between the server and the website and is also accustomed to improving your site’s security.
– To check if this file is inflicting the ‘Internal server error’, then you have to incapacitate this file. This file is situated in the website’s backend, get access to that, and then you have to just disable it.
– You could simply do it by changing the file’s name and then later adding the error-free file back in the system.
– Lastly, check if your website’s memory has reached its limit, in that case, you have to increase the memory limit.
How to fix plugin error of WooCommerce?
As we have already discussed that WoCommerce is the plugin that helps to convert your WordPress site into an online eCommerce store. So, quite often this plugin might have bugs or errors, so make sure you always install an updated version of the WooCommerce. These bugs in the plugin could cause the corruption of the file present or even the missing of the files. They could also hinder the smooth function of your website, which could further lead to more errors.
In conclusion, make sure you have an updated version of WordPress and WooCommerce installed in your systems. Take care of the compatibility of the themes that you will be using. Lastly, do a regular check on the plugins and most importantly, enable “WP_DEBUG” to have an error-free atmosphere on your website.
