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Sebastian Moran is a WordPress performance expert and technical liaison for MainWP.

How to Remove ShortPixel Image Optimizer Plugin Data on Your WordPress Site

Published on July 14, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
How to Remove ShortPixel Image Optimizer Plugin Data on Your WordPress Site
If you’re using the ShortPixel Image Optimizer plugin and want to switch to a different plugin, you should first delete all of the data that ShortPixel is currently using. This will help ensure your new plugin works correctly without conflicting with the old data. To quickly delete all of the ShortPixel data, you will need to be in wp-admin of the site with the ShortPixel plugin still active; Settings > ShortPixel > Tools Original images before optimization are stored in Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce vs PrestaShop: Exploring the Best E-commerce Solutions for Your Business

Published on July 6, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
WooCommerce vs PrestaShop: Exploring the Best E-commerce Solutions for Your Business
WooCommerce and PrestaShop are two of the most popular e-commerce platforms. Both platforms offer a wide range of features and functionality, making them suitable for businesses of all sizes. However, some critical differences between the platforms may make one a better fit for your needs. WooCommerce is a free plugin that can be installed on any WordPress website. This makes it an accessible e-commerce platform for beginners, as WordPress is one of the world’s most popular content management systems (CMS). Continue reading the post...

What are Zero, One and Few Shot Learning in Generative AI

Published on June 28, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
What are Zero, One and Few Shot Learning in Generative AI
Three types of prompt learning can be used in Generative AI: zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot. 1. Zero-shot learning Zero-shot learning is a type of machine learning where the model can make predictions about new classes without being explicitly trained on those classes. This is done by using the model’s knowledge of other, similar classes to make inferences about the new classes. For example, a model trained on a dataset of dogs and cats could be used to predict new animals, Continue reading the post...

Easy Security Hardening Tips for Your WordPress Site

Published on June 21, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
Easy Security Hardening Tips for Your WordPress Site
WordPress powers over 40% of the websites on the internet. Because of its popularity, WordPress is a favorite target for hackers. However, there are many easy security hardening changes that you can make to your WordPress site to improve its security. Set strong passwords One of the most important things you can do to secure your WordPress site is to set strong passwords for all your accounts, including your WordPress admin account, FTP account, and email account. Strong passwords should Continue reading the post...

How to Run Open-Source LLMs on a Cloud Server with a GPU

Published on June 15, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
How to Run Open-Source LLMs on a Cloud Server with a GPU
LLM, both commercial hosted offerings and open-source LLM, have been making impressive strides during 2023. Commercial LLMs include but are not limited to; OpenAI DeepMind Google Anthropic Regarding cloud providers offering GPUs for running large language models (LLMs) and AI applications, industry leaders include AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Cost-effective cloud servers with powerful enough GPUs include Lambda, CoreWeave, and Runpod. All of those providers offer high-end GPUs, such as the NVIDIA HGX-H100. Hugging Face’s leaderboard keeps track of Continue reading the post...

How to Remove Background and Upscale Images Using AI

Published on June 7, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
How to Remove Background and Upscale Images Using AI
Many AI-powered image editors, such as Clipping Magic and Remove.bg allow you to quickly and easily remove backgrounds from images. To use any of these tools, simply upload an image and select the area of the image you want to keep. The tool will automatically remove the background and save the image as a new file. Using a WordPress Plugin As of now, WordPress doesn’t have any good plugins that can remove backgrounds from images in the media library. Likely, Continue reading the post...

How to Write an Effective Prompt for Generative AI

Published on May 31, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
How to Write an Effective Prompt for Generative AI
Crafting an effective prompt for generative AI is essential to obtain the desired output. Here are some tips on how to write an effective prompt for generative AI: Be clear and concise: The prompt should be clear and concise so the AI knows exactly what you want it to do. Avoid using jargon or technical terms that the AI may not be familiar with. Be specific: The more specific you are with your prompt, the better the AI can generate an Continue reading the post...

Popular AI Tools for Your WordPress Website

Published on May 25, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
Popular AI Tools for Your WordPress Website
Artificial Intelligent (AI) has made great strides over the last six months and has come to the forefront of innovation. Many plugins for WordPress have started implementing AI in creative ways, such as for generating SEO titles and meta descriptions, content creation along with CSS, and custom code generation in the case of Elementor AI, which made its AI features available in the 3.13 release. Kadence WP is working on AI features that will make default content starter content generation Continue reading the post...

How to Convert from Google Analytics (UA) to GA4 for WordPress

Published on May 11, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
How to Convert from Google Analytics (UA) to GA4 for WordPress
Starting July 1st, 2023, Google will discontinue Universal Analytics (UA), making Google Analytics 4 (GA4) the default analytics tool for website tracking. To switch from UA to GA4 tracking in WordPress using a plugin, you can follow these steps. Please note that the steps below use the MonsterInsights plugin, but numerous Google Analytics plugins are available for WordPress. Install and activate the MonsterInsights plugin Go to Insights > Settings in your WordPress dashboard Click on Connect MonsterInsights Sign in to Continue reading the post...

How to Remove the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) Data on Your Site

Published on May 4, 2023 by Sebastian Moran under Tips & Tricks
How to Remove the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) Data on Your Site
The Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), having 100,000+ active installs, is commonly used to display related content on posts, pages, and custom post types. Uninstalling the YARPP plugin should remove all its used options, usermeta data, and the custom database table used for the related cache. However, if some data is left behind, you can quickly remove it manually by deleting the unused YARPP custom database table. The YARPP plugin uses the following custom database table; wp_yarpp_related_cache If you Continue reading the post...

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