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2fa - WooCommerce Store
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Sebastian Moran

How to Enable Two Factor Authentication in WooCommerce

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an important security feature that adds an extra layer of protection to your WooCommerce store. With 2FA enabled, a user must provide two forms of identification to log in: their password and a unique verification code generated by an authentication app, sent via SMS, or provided by a hardware token. Securing the login for WooCommerce has become easy with the availability of multiple free plugins on the WordPress.org repository. Wordfence If you are using either the Wordfence plugin or the Wordfence Login Security plugin you can now take advantage of the WooCommerce two-factor authentication feature. To

Sebastian Moran March 1, 2023 No Comments
Migrate from ManageWP to MainWP
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Sebastian Moran

Step by Step Guide to Quickly Migrate from ManageWP to MainWP

ManageWP is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for managing multiple sites, whereas MainWP is an open-source, self-hosted solution that prioritizes privacy for you and your clients when handling multiple websites from a centralized dashboard. Learn: Why Privacy for Your Clients is Important! Before moving forward, let’s learn a bit about the MainWP system. MainWP is a set of two plugins, “MainWP Dashboard” & “MainWP Child”. The MainWP Dashboard plugin is installed on a WordPress website from where you want to control all other websites. We recommend installing it on a fresh WordPress installation. MainWP Child, this plugin needs

Sebastian Moran February 28, 2023 No Comments
Scan & Remove Files That Should Not Be On Your WordPress Install
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Sebastian Moran

How to Scan for Files That Should Not Be In Your WordPress Install

Backup files such as MySQL dumps, and wp-config.php backup files should not be stored in your WordPress install’s public_html (root folder). It’s important to note that the backup wp-config.php file can provide an easy way for a site attacker to find the database credentials. These credentials can then be used to directly connect to your site to insert content in the site’s database or to create an admin user to install and deploy malicious content to your site from plugin installs. One of the easiest security plugins to scan for those types of files is Wordfence. To ensure that files

Sebastian Moran February 15, 2023 No Comments
Fix Mixed Content Error - WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Correctly Fix Mix Content Issues on WordPress

Dealing with mixed content issues on WordPress sites can be a pain. The ideal way to solve mixed content issues is to solve those at the database level, so it does not need another plugin dependency to fix mixed content on the site’s front end. If you want a plugin-only solution, then the Better Search Replace plugin will help run a search and replace any HTTP references in the site’s database and change those to HTTPS. Depending on the number of references that need to be changed, the Better Search Replace plugin might take a while to complete the changes.

Sebastian Moran February 9, 2023 No Comments
Change Debug Log Location - WordPress
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Sebastian Moran

How to Change the debug.log Storage Location

It is beneficial if you temporarily enable debugging on your WordPress site to run down any issues happening with the site from active themes, WordPress core version, or active plugins. The default location to store the debug.log file is /wp-content/debug.log, but if you want to change the path where the debug.log file should be stored, add the following snippet into the wp-config.php file replacing the /tmp/ with your folder preference. define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, ‘/tmp/wp-errors.log’ ); If you are uncomfortable editing the wp-config file, you can use the plugin “Change Debug Log Location” If you are using the Really Simple SSL plugin

Sebastian Moran February 1, 2023 No Comments
Remove Unused All in One SEO Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove the All in One SEO Plugin Data on Your WordPress Website

The All in One SEO is a commonly used SEO plugin with 3+ million active installs. If you want to migrate to a different SEO plugin, you should migrate the existing SEO and delete the previous plugin’s stored data. If you are migrating to the Rank Math SEO plugin, it supports the All in One SEO plugin data migration. The All in One SEO plugin uses the following database tables for data storage; wp_aioseo_cache wp_aioseo_notifications wp_aioseo_posts All in One SEO plugin allows you to remove ALL AIOSEO data upon plugin deletion. Make sure the “Uninstall AIOSEO” is enabled before deleting

Sebastian Moran January 25, 2023 No Comments
Remove Unused WPForms Plugin Data
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Sebastian Moran

How to Remove WPForms Plugin Data on Your WordPress Site

One of the most widely used form plugins is WPForms. The lite version of WPForms crossed over 5 million active installs. The WPForms plugin uses the following custom database tables for data storage; wp_wpforms_entries wp_wpforms_entry_meta wp_wpforms_entry_fields wp_wpforms_tasks_meta wp_wpforms_admin_builder_templates_cache_update wp_wpforms_email_summaries_fetch_info_blocks wp_wpforms_process_forms_locator_save wp_wpforms_process_forms_locator_scan wp_wpforms_admin_addons_cache_update The database prefix will differ depending on the table prefix defined in your site’s wp-config.php file. The WPForms plugin has an uninstall option which can be found in the settings menu in wp-admin; WPForms > Settings > Misc When you deactivate and delete the WPForms plugin, all the data it uses will be deleted without needing to manually

Sebastian Moran January 18, 2023 No Comments
Remove Unused Yoast Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Yoast SEO Plugin Data on Your Site

If you want to migrate from the Yoast SEO plugin to alternative plugins, it is also worth making sure that any Yoast SEO plugin data is deleted from the site’s database. The custom database tables that the Yoast SEO plugin creates; wp_yoast_indexable wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy wp_yoast_migrations wp_yoast_primary_term wp_yoast_prominent_words(note: only available in the Yoast SEO Premium plugin) wp_yoast_seo_links The option names that the Yoast SEO plugin uses; _transient_wpseo_unindexed_post_link_count _transient_timeout_wpseo_unindexed_post_link_count _transient_wpseo_unindexed_term_link_count _transient_timeout_wpseo_unindexed_term_link_count _transient_wpseo_total_unindexed_general_items _transient_timeout_wpseo_total_unindexed_general_items _transient_wpseo_total_unindexed_post_type_archives _transient_timeout_wpseo_total_unindexed_post_type_archives _transient_yoast_i18n_wordpress-seo_promo_hide wpseo_social wpseo_titles wpseo yoast_migrations_free Wpseo_taxonomy_meta If you migrated to an alternative SEO plugin, such as Rank Math SEO, it could clean Yoast SEO data after migrating. But

Sebastian Moran January 11, 2023 No Comments
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

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