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Sebastian Moran

How to Hide the Setup Dashboard Widget in WooCommerce

WooCommerce recently added a setup dashboard widget which is loaded in the WooCommerce admin and would display in wp-admin. If you want to remove the extra dashboard widget bloat from displaying for clients then you can easily remove it using a code snippet. Even in the current version of the WooCommerce 5.7.1 the dashboard widget is added extra dashboard widgets in wp-admin. MainWP has a solid and easy-to-use extension for code snippets that you can save and execute code snippets to run on all connected child sites. This would be a good code snippet to have enabled on all child

Sebastian Moran September 28, 2021 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

How to use the Logtivity Service on your Site

You may be aware of the number of activity logging plugins for WordPress but there is now a dedicated event monitoring service called Logtivity. Logtivity has a massive range of features such as event tracking, instant alerts, and a customizable reporting dashboard. Logtivity is very easy to integrate into your WordPress site. First, you will need to create an account, then add the site. After you have set up and added the site now you will need to copy the site API key into the plugin settings. You will find the Logtivity plugin settings in wp-admin from; Tools > Logtivity

Sebastian Moran September 16, 2021 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

How to use the Formality Plugin on your Site

There are a number of form plugins out there for WordPress but one of the most recent form plugins is one that works natively in the block editor and it is called Formality. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new admin menu item called; Formality Under the menu item, it will show forms and results. To create your first new form you can click on the add new for add new form buttons on the form page. Creating a new form is very easy you will need to give the form a title and

Sebastian Moran September 13, 2021 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

Checking if the Removed Unused CSS feature in WP Rocket is Causing Performance Issues

The WP Rocket is a well-used full-page caching plugin that includes a number of optimization options. In version 3.9 of the WP Rocket plugin, it included a new remove unused CSS beta feature. The feature will use a background process that will run from a cron event and can take a while to run the feature depending on how much CSS needs to be removed on the site. The feature will use a custom database table to store the data in the named wpr_rucss_resources. If you have the remove unused CSS feature enabled you should check to see how large

Sebastian Moran September 2, 2021 2 Comments
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Sebastian Moran

How to Remove AMP Plugin Data on Your Site

The AMP project from Google might be killed off in the future. Currently, the official AMP plugin does not have an uninstall option or a UI to remove posts and options that the plugin will store in the site’s database. The option to search for in phpMyAdmin would be using the following option name; amp-options Then once the AMP option has been found you select and then delete it. To delete the posts that the AMP plugin had created then the recommendation would be to use a plugin such as Bulk Delete in order to be able to achieve that.

Sebastian Moran August 26, 2021 1 Comment
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How to Migrate to Different SEO Plugins on your Site

If you have been using SEO plugin on your site for a while then it is worth checking the alternative SEO plugin options that are now available. Most of the commonly used SEO plugins include migration options such as SEOPress, Rank Math SEO, and SEO Framework (TSF). In this post, we will cover two of the most heavily used plugins for SEO on WordPress sites. After you have installed and activated the SEOPress plugin on your site you will be able to easily migrate data from your previous SEO plugin such as Yoast SEO. To migrate the SEO data go

Sebastian Moran August 20, 2021 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

How to Easily Add Dashboard Messages to your Site

There will be times when you want to easily display a dashboard message for a client in wp-admin. An example of why you would want to have a specific dashboard message display would be to remind a client about a change or a new feature that was added to the site. The easiest way to achieve this is to use the WP Dashboard Messages plugin. Once the plugin has been installed and activated it will add a new admin menu; Dashboard Messages > Add New When creating a dashboard message you can select the color scheme it uses, the layout

Sebastian Moran August 12, 2021 No Comments
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Using MailerSend for transactional emails on your WooCommerce Site

If you have a WooCommerce store then it is key to make sure you have working site emails and the best way at making sure that happens is using a transactional email provider. MailerSend is a service that just released a plugin for WooCommerce which has a number of solid features. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new sub-menu item in wp-admin; WooCommerce > MailerSend The next step to get going to use MailerSend on your site is to create an account. The free plan on MailerSend includes up to 12,000 emails a month

Sebastian Moran July 30, 2021 No Comments
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How to Restore the Widget Editor back to use the Classic Editor

WordPress version 5.8 was released on the 20th of July which made a change for the block editor to be used as the default editor when working with widgets. The block editor on widgets can be much slower to load and will load more requests in wp-admin so it can make it a much slower experience. When using the block editor on widgets it can be as many as 231 requests and take 2.5 seconds to load. Using the classic editor when editing widgets will be 83 requests and 1.2 seconds to load. There are two methods to be able

Sebastian Moran July 23, 2021 No Comments

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