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Burst Statistics - WordPress Plugin
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Use the Burst Statistics Plugin on WordPress

There are some self-hosted analytics solutions for your WordPress website, and one of the most recent plugins is Burst Statistics. It is a privacy-friendly solution as it is designed to store data on your WordPress website, which is not shared with any third party. Its user-friendly features allow for quick setup and convenient viewing of your website visitors. You can consider it as a partial alternative to Google Analytics. After the successful installation and activation of the Burst Statistics plugin, you will see a new menu inside wp-admin; Dashboard > Statistics The plugin comes with a turbo mode which can

Sebastian Moran January 4, 2023 No Comments
Remove Unused WP Statistics Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove WP Statistics Plugin Data on Your Site

The WP Statistics is a widely used plugin with over 600k active installations and is used as a self-hosted solution to track analytics. The WP Statistics plugin uses the following custom database tables for data storage; wp_statistics_exclusions wp_statistics_historical wp_statistics_pages wp_statistics_search wp_statistics_useronline wp_statistics_visit wp_statistics_visitor wp_statistics_visitor_relationships The plugin does not have a built-in way to clean or delete the custom database tables other than manually deleting the custom tables using an application such as phpMyAdmin, or a plugin such as WP-Optimize. If you use the WP-Optimize plugin to find the left-over database tables for the WP Statistics plugin, navigate to; WP-Optimize >

Sebastian Moran December 28, 2022 No Comments
Disable Live Traffic - Wordfence
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Disable Live Traffic in Wordfence on Your Site

If you notice many hits in your site’s analytics that have the following query string showing in the URL on your site; /?wordfence_lh=1 Then the query string is added by the live traffic feature in the Wordfence plugin. The real-time live traffic feature in Wordfence adds a query string to URLs on the site to track those. To disable live traffic in Wordfence, you can set the Live Traffic Options to “Security Only”. From your wp-admin, navigate to: Wordfence > All Options > Tool Options > Live Traffic Options Also, disable the signed-in users like below: Alternatively, the Wordfence plugin

Sebastian Moran December 21, 2022 No Comments
Remove YITH Plugin Data- WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove YITH Plugin Data on WordPress

YITH provides many limited free plugins on WordPress.org and premium versions of those plugins. The YITH WooCommerce Wishlist plugin has a constant which would need to be added to the site wp-config.php file that can be used to delete that plugins data; define( ‘YITH_WCWL_REMOVE_ALL_DATA’, true ); YITH plugins will use YITH or YIT in the options database table. Example names to look for: yith-wcqv-enable yith-wcqv-enable-mobile yith-wcqv-button-label yith-wcqv-background-modal yith-wcqv-close-color yith-wcqv-close-color-hover yit_plugin_fw_panel_wc_default_options_set yith_plugin_fw_promo_2019_bis yith_system_info yith_wcmg_slider_direction yith_wcmg_enable_plugin yith_wcmg_enable_mobile yith_wcmg_force_sizes yith_wcmg_zoom_width yith_wcmg_zoom_height yith_wcmg_zoom_position yith_wcmg_zoom_mobile_position yith_wcmg_loading_label yith_wcmg_softfocus yith_wcmg_enableslider yith_wcmg_slider_responsive yith_wcmg_slider_items yith_wcmg_slider_circular yith_wcmg_slider_infinite Yith_wcmg_lens_opacity Most hosts provide a solid application to manage and edit your database

Sebastian Moran December 7, 2022 No Comments
Remove Icegram WordPress Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Icegram Express Plugin Data on WordPress

The Icegram Express plugin is an email marketing service integration for Icegram, which can be commonly used on a site. The Icegram Express plugin uses many custom database tables for storage; wp_ig_actions wp_ig_blocked_emails wp_ig_campaigns wp_ig_contact_meta wp_ig_contactmeta wp_ig_contacts wp_ig_contacts_ips wp_ig_custom_fields wp_ig_forms wp_ig_links wp_ig_lists wp_ig_lists_contacts wp_ig_mailing_queue wp_ig_queue wp_ig_sending_queue wp_ig_temp_import wp_ig_unsubscribe_feedback wp_ig_wc_cart wp_ig_wc_guests wp_ig_workflows wp_ig_workflows_queue The easiest way to remove and delete left-over database tables for Icegram Express is by using a plugin such as WP-Optimize or a host-provided application such as phpMyAdmin. The Icegram Express plugin uses the following option names; there may be a few additional transient-based option names used as

Sebastian Moran November 30, 2022 No Comments
WP Compress Speed Optimization
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using the WP Compress Plugin to Improve Your Website(s) Speed

The WP Compress plugin and service cover much more than image optimization now. The WP Compress v6 includes image optimization, serving out site images and assets using BunnyCDN or Cloudfront from Amazon. This means that those assets will be served using solid CDN services, which have multiple PoPs. WP Compress includes deferring CSS and JS files and minifying HTML and CSS files being loaded on the site’s front end. Currently in beta, WP Compress offers critical CSS generation, which will help improve the front-end load time of a site. WP Compress also includes other optimization options to disable many front-end

Sebastian Moran November 23, 2022 No Comments
Remove WP Staging Unused Database Tables
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Unused WP Staging Plugin Database Tables

The WP Staging plugin is commonly used to create a staging site if your host does not provide one-click staging site creation. If you no longer need one of the created staging sites, then you can delete it from the UI of the WP Staging plugins. Uninstalling the WP Staging plugin would not delete any staging sites or delete the created database tables for the staging site. Even after deleting a staging site, there might be some left-over database tables related to WP Staging. The Left-over WP Staging database table could be due to a cloning process being interrupted. If

Sebastian Moran November 18, 2022 No Comments
WebP Image Format - WP Optimize
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Convert Site Images to the WebP format in the WP-Optimize Plugin

The WebP image format is commonly supported in most major browsers, and in most cases, the images can be smaller than the original JPG format file. WebP images are about 30% smaller than PNG and JPEG images at equivalent visual quality. WordPress 6.1 introduced the WebP image generation feature. But, if you don’t want to use natively, you can easily disable it using a code snippet and the CDN at the edge, such as Cloudflare or the locally generating plugin version. The WP-Optimize plugin supports converting new and bulk-optimizing existing images in the media library into the WebP image format

Sebastian Moran November 9, 2022 No Comments
Remove Unused Wordfence Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Keep Wordfence Plugin Database Usage Low

Wordfence is a security plugin that can help protect your site. The database tables that the Wordfence plugin uses should be checked for size as part of regular maintenance checks on the site’s database. Wordfence plugin uses many database tables, which were covered before in this article. Below is the Wordfence database table to regularly check for the size; wp_wfHoover You can use a plugin such as WP-Optimize to check the database size. With the plugin installed and active in wp-admin, go to; WP-Optimize > Database > Tables Search using the name wfhoover and the WP-Optimize plugin will show you

Sebastian Moran November 2, 2022 No Comments

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