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Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Easily Removing the Bloat in WordPress

WordPress by default can enable a number of back-end and front-end features which can lead to performance issues but there are code snippet and plugin methods to easily remove the bloat. MainWP has an extension for being able to save and then run code snippets on all connected child sites. There are a vast number of code snippets that will allow you to remove front-end and back-end bloat in WordPress and a number of plugins on the MainWP GitHub code snippets repository. A number of code snippets are also posted on the MainWP community you can filter by tags to

Q&A with Santa claus
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Q&A with Santa – How he uses MainWP to manage his websites

Notice: This article is completely fiction. No part of this shall be considered true. Hopefully, you will find the Christmas Spirit so that Santa’s sleigh can fly this year. We have had many Q&A articles over the years here at MainWP, but this one is very special! Dennis noticed a testimonial from a guy named Kris a while back. We looked into it and it was actually Kris Kringle. Yes, THAT Kris Kringle! The one and only Santa Claus. After months of trying to get in touch with him, he finally answered our email and agreed to do a Q&A

Easily Delete Jetpack Options and Transients on Your Site
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Easily Delete Jetpack Options and Transients on Your Site

Jetpack is a commonly used plugin on-sites the plugin will not remove all of its data when it is uninstalled. You can use a simple plugin that will delete two of the common option names in Jetpack. In order to delete the two main options for Jetpack, the plugin will need to be installed from the locally downloaded zip file and activated and it will delete the two options and then delete itself. jetpack_options Jetpack_private_options A complete list of the Jetpack options is as follows; jetpack_activated jetpack_activation_source jetpack_available_modules jetpack_connection_active_plugins jetpack_dismissed_connection_banner jetpack_options jetpack_private_options jetpack_sync_https_history_home_url jetpack_sync_https_history_site_url jetpack_tos_agreed Another plugin option to easily

2021 MainWP Blog Year in Review
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

2021 Year in review MainWP blog

It’s that time of year when we review the year we have had. I am sure you have been doing that already for your own business. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to be in a WordPress Year in Review Live podcast. I had fun talking about what has happened and where we are going. What are some reasons we do a year in review? First, I often find I am surprised to learn some kind of pattern or trend that has happened. It can allow you to double down on the things that are working

december roundup
About
Todd Jones

December Roundup: Following the Doo the Woo train to the State of the Word

In the December Roundup, we are going to talk about the State of the Word, a train going to the State of the Word, Big Orange Heart, a few acquisitions, and some worthwhile articles to read. Before we get to those, let me share a couple of pieces of news. The WP Weekly Awards has closed and Davinder is tallying the results currently. He hopes to have them next week. I’m excited to see who won awards in the various categories. On Thursday, December 2, I was invited to a roundtable discussion of the Year in Review for WordPress. Rob

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Improve Site Performance when using Stripe in WooCommerce

The WooCommerce Stripe Gateway is a widely used plugin for adding Stripe integration to your WooCommerce store. A recent release in version 5.7.0 of the Stripe plugin would cause a number of Stripe-related assets requests and external Stripe requests to load on single product pages and cart pages on your site. This would cause product pages and the cart page of the site to be much slower due to the extra requests being loaded from Stripe on them. The express checkout options can be controlled in the Stripe payment gateway from; WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > Stripe If you

web care survey 2021
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

The great Web Care Consultant Survey of 2021

Have you ever wondered what your peers charge for web care services? Have you ever wondered what other services your peers offer? Yeah. Me too. That’s why I decided to find out. I created a survey to find out these answers and a few more. And since Google is powerful, I used its form feature to create the survey. It will only take a few minutes to fill out. In today’s article, I will talk a bit about the ins and outs of the Web Care Survey that will be used in an article at MainWP.   Remain anonymous The

Q&A with the DeRosias of Heropress
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Q&A With WordPress power couple Cate & Topher DeRosia of HeroPress

Somewhere along the way –I can’t say when– I ran across the HeroPress website. As you all know, I really like stories and the telling of overcoming adversity. HeroPress tells those stories, so I was immediately attracted to the platform. Over the past several years I have been fortunate enough to meet Topher and Cate (virtually) DeRosia, the couple behind HeroPress. I have worked with them in various settings. In the past few months, HeroPress expanded with new projects and looking to be a bigger player in the WordPress space. HeroPress has been around for about six years now. Originally,

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to use the Fluent Support Plugin on Your Site

Self-hosted support plugins are available for WordPress but a number can be limited. One of the newest support plugins that were launched is Fluent Support. The company behind the plugin WP Manage Ninja is also behind well-built plugins such as FluentCRM, Fluent Forms, WP Social Ninja, and Ninja Tables. To get going to setup the support portal setup you will need to create a support portal page and use the shortcode on it. The Portal page in Fluent Support uses the following shortcode. [fluent_support_portal] To show the built-in login form use [fluent_support_login] For the user registration use this shortcode [fluent_support_signup]

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to use the Human Presence Service on Your Site

Stopping spam comments for spam form submissions is normally solved using an anti-spam plugin or service or in the case of a form plugins using reCaptcha or another captcha service. One of the newer options for protecting spam on your site is Human Presence. Unlike using a captcha service on-site forms the spam protection is invisible to site users and a frictionless experience. The service also integrates with a number of other platforms and CMS such as Magento, Drupal, and Shopify. The free version of the Human Presence plugin and service supports the following WordPress, WooCommerce, and form types. If

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