Paul Drummond: Digital Design Blog http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog Digital design and other shiny toys Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:36:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.10 Monstrous Christmas http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2016/12/24/monstrous-christmas/ Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:36:50 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=998 Merry Christmas!

]]> WordPress login loop error – check your database permissions http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2016/06/28/wordpress-login-loop-error-check-your-database-permissions/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:31:19 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=985 A client website was hacked yesterday and all files deleted, so we asked the hosting company to restore everything from backup.

Simple.

No, not really. At first the backups were out of date and FTP access went AWOL, but we muddled through. The public site was eventually restored, but we couldn’t get into the WordPress admin. Entering our details simply redirected us to the login page again. Turns out this problem has affected quite a few sites, as a quick search for ‘wordpress login loop’ or ‘wordpress login redirect’ will prove.

I tried all the suggested things such as removing WordPress plugins, deleting .htaccess, checking file permissions, but nothing worked. Eventually the hosting company checked the file permissions for the site database. It was on read-only. A quick change to read/write and we could login again.

So, if you get the WordPress login loop error, check your database hasn’t been set to read-only.

]]> Still alive http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2016/06/27/still-alive/ Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:32:45 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=983 Still alive, just working on stuff I can’t talk about yet. Or ever. Grrr. NDA’s.

]]> Christmas 2016 card illustration http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2015/12/15/christmas-2016-card-illustration/ Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:52:16 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=980 Back despite popular request, it’s this year’s Christmas card illustration:

Junk bird illustration

]]> Unwanted call http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2015/09/10/unwanted-call/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:59:36 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=973 Some more cover work-in-progress. Definitely getting the Japanese horror movie vibe with this one:

The Cell work-in-progress

 

]]> Head for heights http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2015/06/09/head-for-heights/ Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:19:39 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=961 Some more illustration work-in-progress:

Illustration work-in-progress

]]> Realtime 3D testing http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2015/06/05/realtime-3d-testing/ Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:22:58 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=958 An early prototype of some realtime 3D visualisation built using Unity 5:

]]> Head in the clouds http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2015/05/22/head-in-the-clouds/ Fri, 22 May 2015 17:43:59 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=952 Working on a new book cover:

in-the-clouds

]]> More robots http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2015/03/27/more-robots/ Fri, 27 Mar 2015 11:59:10 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=943 More robots. I seem to be doing a lot of these lately. This is an early work-in-progress.

robot_test

]]> Pay attention at the back http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/2015/03/19/pay-attention-at-the-back/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:32:26 +0000 http://www.pauldrummond.co.uk/blog/?p=939 I do a lot of high-tech and engineering illustration, so this makes a nice change. It’s for a series of IGCSE revision guides.

Mr Exham head sketch

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