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Remove WP Mail Logging Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove WP Mail Logging Plugin Data on Your WordPress Website

The WP Mail Logging plugin is one of the most popular and easy-to-use plugins for logging emails sent from your WordPress website. WP Mail Logging Plugin for WordPress As keeping a log of emails sent can quickly increase the size of your database, it is recommended that you check and adjust the log retention settings according to your needs. Navigate to Log Rention in the WP Mail Logging plugin. If you want to change to an SMTP plugin that includes built-in email logging or use a different solution, you should make sure that the database table the plugin is using

Meet Termageddon
Privacy
Dennis Dornon

Meet Termageddon – Generate & Auto Update Policies with Required Disclosures

Do your websites collect personal information? Today’s modern websites are built to provide a great user experience and motivate prospective customers to reach out and inquire about what you offer. This is done using contact forms, website analytics, and more. Contact forms typically require users to provide personal information such as their name, email address, and phone number. And when a website uses analytics or security tools, it may also capture a visitor’s IP address, which can be considered personally identifiable information (PII). This information may then be shared with third-party analytics and security providers. These are just a few

Featured MainWP User Renee Shupe
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

MainWP Featured User: Renee Shupe brings Geek in a Pocket to her clients

What do you do when you are commuting to a dead-end job an hour and half each way and you are tired and burned out? That was the question that Renee faced in 2008. It was exhausting. As she says on her About page, “In 2008, I was travelling 90 minutes each way to work to a job I wasn’t all that excited about and I was running on automatic. I was tired. Tired of the mundane. Tired of the same thing each AND every day.” She sat out to make a change and initially launched a virtual assistant business.

Why WordPress Maintenance Services Are a Game-Changer for Your Business
Quick Starts
Sujay Pawar

The Benefits of Offering WordPress Maintenance Services to Clients

Do you run a digital agency? Provide design or development to clients? Are you wondering whether to add WordPress maintenance to the mix or not? It may seem like a logical option. You have WordPress skills; you already offer some services, so why not add maintenance too? There are a few considerations to take into account before you jump in, and this article should help. We’ll discuss WordPress maintenance and the value it offers you and your clients. By the end of this guide, you should have a clearer idea of what to do! What type of maintenance does WordPress

TikTok - Ban - Privacy
Privacy
Donata Stroink-Skillrud

Bans Proposed on TikTok Due to Privacy Concerns

With over 1 billion active users in 154 countries, TikTok has taken the Internet by storm, catching users’ attention with short videos of anything from dances to popular cleaning hacks. However, the popular social media platform has come under increased scrutiny and regulations for its privacy and security practices, with allegations ranging from exploiting children to sharing data with the Chinese government. While the platform has been banned from government-issued devices in certain countries, there are also calls to ban it from the app store altogether, regardless of whether the user is a government employee or a regular civilian. In

How to Easily Check Your WordPress Site's Database Usage
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Get an Easy Overview of Your WordPress Site Database Usage

Keeping an eye on your WordPress site’s database usage helps you optimize it when needed. The latest plugin developed by 99w allows users to obtain a thorough overview of their database usage and the option to view the size of individual database tables within their WordPress site’s database. The plugin is called Database Table Overview and Logs and when installed and activated, it will add a new menu in wp-admin, “Database Table Overview & Logs.” The free version of the plugin includes several useful features, such as; List of all database tables, including name, size, and rows Preview a record

You probably should be charging more
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Web Care Consultants: You probably should be charging more.

We Care Consultants should be charging more. Today we take a look at three reasons why you are selling yourself short. Did you know that 45% of businesses in the United States fail in the first five years? Crazy huh? 65% of businesses fail within ten years. Are you curious about your state in the US? What about other countries? Half of startups survive the first three years in the UK. In Australia, that number is 60% failure within three years. And what about Canada? 15% of businesses fail in the first three years. Maybe Canada helps their private businesses

Code Snippets - WordPress 6.2
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Useful Code Snippets for WordPress 6.2

WordPress 6.2, the next major release of WordPress core, is scheduled for March 28th. The new version of WordPress comes with many feature improvements and enhancements, but you may not want to use them. Here are some code snippets to disable certain features: 1) To disable the new Openverse category from showing in the new media tab in the block editor, you can use this code snippet. add_filter( ‘block_editor_settings_all’, function( $settings ) { $settings[‘enableOpenverseMediaCategory’] = false;return $settings; }, 10 ); Let’s discuss 2) There is a new filter wp_save_post_revision_revisions_before_deletion which can be used to delete all but the oldest post

MainWP 4.4.0.2 Released
Important Updates
Dennis Dornon

📢 MainWP 4.4.0.2 is Now Available!

Today, I am thrilled to announce the release of MainWP 4.4.0.2, which introduces several new features designed to streamline your experience and make managing your website even more efficient. We’ve recently introduced several new features, including: Required Plugin Check Some of our Extensions require the installation of third-party plugins on your Child Sites to allow for direct management from your MainWP Dashboard. No more guesswork – when you click on an Extension from the Extensions page, the Dashboard will check for Child Sites without the required plugin and presents you with a list. Simply select the Child Sites you wish

Remove Zero Spam Plugin Unused Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Zero Spam Plugin Data on Your WordPress Website

A commonly used spam protection plugin is Zero Spam which has over 30k active installations. To avoid conflicts when switching from the Zero Spam plugin, it’s recommended to remove any remaining data before installing, activating, and setting up the new spam protection solution. The Zero Spam plugin uses a couple of custom database tables for storage; wp_zerospam_blocked_ips Wp_zerospam_log Suppose the custom database tables from the Zero Spam plugin are not automatically deleted when you uninstall it. In that case, you can use the WP-Optimize plugin or phpMyAdmin to locate them. By using any of them, you can delete the left-over

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