@Oxy ty for editing my post
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“Training” an AI usually means generating the model, but I don’t think that’s something you usually do with LLMs given how ridiculously big the models are. It also involves feeding in specific training data and tuning parameters to get the desired result, which requires some quite specific knowledge to do.
With LLMs, you can feed in context data and instructions that should make the LLM behave in a specific way, like using a specific tone of voice and dictating what it should or shouldn’t do. Doing so doesn’t require a masters degree in computer science, but still requires practice to do well.
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Just installed WordPress on a site for the first time in about 4 years or so as someone without webdev knowledge wants a blog, why is this software so broken?
No plugins, no theme and it just does not work. WPS hide login plugin does not work at all (Gave up on that), permalinks seems to break everything, logged myself out somehow by clicking a save button and now I can’t log back in, all “Save Changes” does is try to call a non-existent /wp-json/ path and fail. cPanel 404 error pages everywhere (I thought WP had error pages?), emails only send about half the time for some reason, and the navigation bar is totally broken even though I did not touch it.
I thought this was supposed to be user friendly?
EDIT: Just reinstalled it, and now it won’t accept my FTP account even though FileZilla has no issues with it
EDIT2: Forgot to mention this, but setting WP_DEBUG to true does not generate any logs anywhere that I can find, even though the web interface is throwing errors left and right. How?
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And that’s why I gave up on self hosting wordpress years ago.
It’s a painful experience
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First year of college done! Was quite an interesting experience 
I’m jumping right into the deep end too - planning on studying abroad in Tokyo next year for the whole year 
(Oh, and I got good grades this year. So I get to keep my honors scholarship. Yay!)
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Congratulations
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Sounds like that the rewrite rules were never setup properly.
This in my experience was more of a cPanel issue rather than a WordPress issue. After all, if you don’t configure SMTP, WordPress will just use mail().
Did you also set WP_DEBUG_LOG as well?
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I replaced the .htaccess file multiple times, no change, even with default permalink settings.
Most likely. There were three that started with WP_DEBUG that I set.
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So, I decided to bring my BlUbuntuBook with me to work today to work on one of my projects. Near the end of my workday, about an hour from me leaving, one of my co-workers knocked the laptop on the table and it landed on the floor, busting my screen in 4 different spots. This made the screen completely useless.
Now that co-worker has a weekend to either get me a new screen or get me $75. Until then, I’ll just have to connect my laptop to my bedroom TV and work from there. 
I have to thank Oxy for the OxyPolitics. Half of the stuff in those news posts are never reported on my local news station.
Yesterday, I worked 7 hours straight after leaving my job for the day on a project. 7 hours, non-stop. I’m estimating I’m going to need 4 more non-stop hours.
One of my favorite GitHubbers had to change a name in their project and re-release it. They made the thing 4x better before they re-released it. I’m glad the project exists for older machines.
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Are you still interested in getting the problem solved?
If yes, can you please go to the Dashboard then Tools → Site Health, and paste the information from the “Info” tab?
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I’ve reinstalled it again and will probably take another go at it in a few days, if it’s still having issues I’ll share!
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I get a lot of crazy customers coming to my shop, today a customer comes in and asks for a usb-c cable for his tablet
I look at the tablet and can see its a micro usb connector so I give him a usb-c to micro usb cable and he looks at it and says no I need a usb cable
I guess he means usb-a so I give him a usb-a to micro usb cable and again he says no I want a usb to usb-c cable
I explain that the tablet is not usb-c its micro usb but the customer insist that I give him what he wants and starts ranting so I sell him the usb-a to usb-c cable for £5 just to get him out of the shop
About 40 mins later he returns with his tablet and cable both the cable and the charging port are smashed, he then starts shouting at me for selling the wrong cable and says I now owe him £200 for a new tablet
I try to explain again to him that I told him it was the wrong cable but he is not listening so I play back the CCTV footage with audio to prove it and finally he shuts up
I offer to fix his charging port for £50 but he just storms out 
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I remember this was what I did
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );
@ini_set( 'display_errors', 0);
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Ah the joys of customers. Reminds me of my days with an insurance provider where I said we couldn’t fix a guys boilerz because he cancelled his insurance 4 months prior lol
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Turns out the issue had almost nothing to do with WP and everything to do with my ignorance regarding Linux filesystems.
WP was installed within a subdirectory using command line tools. To give you an idea of the system:
/ (0)
└── /home (1)
└── /controllerdomain.tld (2)
└── /domain.tld (3)
└── /wordpress (4)
0 and 1 are owned by root, 2+ should be owned by the user (0 is system root, 2 is domain root)
Problem was, when I installed WP using the CLI, 4 got changed from being owned by the domain user, to being owned by root. This caused WP to lose filesystem access (Hence its request for FTP creds), and an unrelated FTP bug/error thing allowed me to still have access to files in 4 via FileZilla (Which was a vulnerability in that system that got fixed).
I still don’t know why WP rejected my FTP credentials before (Since at the time the credentials did give access to the root-owned files), and still mad that WP did not throw any errors that filesystem access was blocked when error logging was turned on.
Did not do a major test of things yet, but I re-installed WP again, and was able to edit the site footer and delete plugins without any additional setup or debugging, so I’m going to consider this piece solved.
Thank you to everyone that replied to my original post!
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Did you run the WP CLI as root by any chance? That would explain this behavior.
I have made similar mistakes too. Now I just make sure to always run command line stuff as the file owner instead of root.
That is, unless you try to get fancy with security and try to make it so that the source code is owned by root so it cannot be overwritten with PHP. But that’s a different can of worms.
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