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With 2019 upon us, now is the time to focus on the new year. One of the best ways to have a healthy mental attitude is to keep a positive outlook. Life will throw you a few curve balls, and how you deal with those really does improve how you can stay driven and happy in the year ahead while maintaining a positive mental attitude. Positive thinking is not a new concept; there are thousands of self-help books and seminars Continue reading the post...

What is the wp profile Command in WP-CLI? wp profile command is designed for finding where and what is slowing a site down. As with any performance benchmarking, multiple runs will need to be used. Start by running the common commands for wp profile multiple times. This will help you find what is causing WordPress to load slowly on a site. wp profile stage This command will output a number of options in the table. They are broken down as: Continue reading the post...

What is the wp doctor command in WP-CLI? wp doctor lets you easily run a series of configurable checks to diagnose what’s ailing with WordPress. Without wp doctor, your team has to rely on their memory to manually debug problems. With wp doctor, your team saves hours identifying the health of your WordPress installs by codifying diagnosis procedures as a series of checks to run with WP-CLI. It comes with dozens of checks out of the box. name description autoload-options-size Continue reading the post...

What is the WP-CLI? The WP-CLI is a way of doing anything that you would be able to do in the back-end of a WordPress site in wp-admin, but using command lines. A number of hosts have WP-CLI installed on new servers. One great example is on Cloudways. Common WP-CLI commands If a client site has a white screen issues from an active plugin or theme and you have sFTP/SSH access on the site, then you can change the active Continue reading the post...

The first step to use an external cron service like EasyCron to run MainWP crons, is this constant needs to be set in the MainWP Dashboard wp-config.php file. MainWP has a post which will help with this setting. define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', true ); For more information about WP Cron, see here. EasyCron is a task scheduler which provides services of calling specified URLs at a specified time or by a time interval. It eliminates the dependence on traditional Cron service and Continue reading the post...

A few days after the WordPress 5.0 release, the first security update (5.0.1) has been released which resolves vulnerabilities found in all previous versions of WordPress starting with 3.7. These vulnerabilities allow authors to alter metadata and delete files that they weren’t authorized to. Also, authors could create posts of unauthorized post types with specially crafted input which could be used to take over a site… WordPress team strongly suggests updating your sites immediately if you haven’t done so already… If you previously updated your Continue reading the post...

What are transients are and why WordPress uses them WordPress uses transients to store data, that can be retrieved short-term from the options database table. But the problem ends up being when different plugins are using transients, but then not deleting that data when it has expired. It can cause performance issues over-time and cause the options database table to group. So ideally you would want to delete expired transients on any of the MainWP Child Sites you manage to improve Continue reading the post...

Zapier is a hosted service where you can mostly connect any 3rd party service with any 3rd party service. So, in this case, Zapier will enable us to filter emails and then based on the subject line, send an SMS to a mobile number that you select. We are going to use Zapier to send the MainWP email notification as SMS messages, so you can check on those instead of having to filter through all of your emails. SMS Notifications About Available Continue reading the post...

Now, when the WordPress 5.0 has been released, even with the Classic Editor plugin installed, users are still being invited to switch to the newly introduced Block Editor despite assurances that this won’t be the case. This means that it’s not enough just to install the Classic Editor plugin, but one more step is required, you need to disable the option to switch editors. This option is located on the WP Admin > Settings > Writing screen Changing this can be Continue reading the post...

With the WordPress 5.0 release less than two weeks away from being shipped, the release is going to be pushed back to be later than November 27, 2018. You need to make sure that your child sites have been updated to deal with the new version of WordPress. The major changes being the new default Gutenberg block editor. WordPress 5.0 release data has been pushed back due to certain issues, with issues found in the beta, and release candidate being Continue reading the post...