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John Locke - Lockedown SEO
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Q&A with John Locke of Lockedown SEO

Like so many of us, John Locke did not begin his career in the website industry. He got his start working in a bakery where he was a manager. He breaks down the story on an episode of WP-Tonic in 2016. Later, John worked for a factory bakery. For years John has been taking care of clients in the Sacramento, California area where he has racked up some top recognitions, including being named one of the top web designers in Sacramento. He has also gathered recognition for his work in SEO. He has served as a Speaker and Co-Organizer for

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Why the Follow Up Emails WooCommerce Plugin Will Cause Site Issues

While trying new plugins can unearth hidden gems in the WooCommerce world, there are certain plugins that are better to stay away from. One such plugin is Follow Up Emails. The plugin sends follow up emails based on different triggers (e.g., if a customer purchased a specific product, a customer created a new subscription to a product or plan, and so on). The custom database tables created by the plugin are as follows; wp_followup_coupons wp_followup_coupon_logs wp_followup_customers wp_followup_customer_carts wp_followup_customer_notes wp_followup_customer_orders wp_followup_email_excludes wp_followup_email_logs wp_followup_email_orders wp_followup_email_tracking wp_followup_followup_history- wp_followup_order_categories- wp_followup_order_items wp_followup_subscribers- wp_followup_subscribers_to_lists wp_followup_subscriber_lists Follow Up Emails plugin for WooCommerce heavily uses the Action Scheduler,

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using the Ultimate Email Validator Plugin

Spam site registrations or spam form submissions can be blocked by being able to detect and block emails from being used on your child site. There is a new plugin called Ultimate Email Validator. After the plugin has been installed and activated on the site it will add a new admin menu called; Ultimate Email Validator The plugin includes support for the following popular plugins BuddyPress, WooCommerce, MailChimp, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms and Ninja Forms. As well as support for default WordPress Forms. Ultimate Email Validator uses the SOLYD free API Block Temporary Email to detect and stop the

World of WordPress
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

World of WordPress: St. Louis, press releases, and a whole site redesign

If you are like many in the US, you are recovering from a night of trick or treating and costumes and kids everywhere. Or maybe, you are celebrating All Saint’s Day today. Or, perhaps, it is just Friday for you. Whatever you please, it is the weekend, and there is much to do! Today we take a look at the power of press releases and WordCamp US taking place this weekend in St. Louis. Writing a press release Justin Tadlock talks about the need for WordPress businesses to write press releases. Tadlock, as you already know, is one of the

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Bogdan Rapaic

Quick way to remove Broken Link Checker plugin from your Child Sites

Recently, WP Scan disclosed the vulnerability in the current version (1.11.8) of the Broken Link Checker plugin. As per WP Scan: “The plugin is still affected and won’t be fixed according to the original advisory”. Since the fix is not expected, we strongly recommend removing the plugin for your WordPress sites and finding an alternative. Here is how you can easily remove the plugin from your sites from your MainWP Dashboard: Go to the MainWP > Plugins > Manage Plugins page Select All your Child Sites Select Active status In the Search Options field, enter “Broken Link Checker” keyword Click

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Use the WP Rollback Plugin

It is worth knowing how to rollback plugins or themes on a site, due to either the current version of the plugin having a bug or a current version of a plugin causing a conflict with another active plugin. The plugin which allows you to easily rollback a plugin is WP Rollback. After you have installed and activated the plugin in the plugin list, in wp-admin next to deactivate Rollback will show. When you select rollback next to the plugin that you want to rollback to a previous version, the next screen will show all versions of the plugin which

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Cleanup Data from the WP Statistics plugin

Being able to view the analytics of who is visiting a site and how long they are on the site and what they are looking at is very useful to know, but using certain WordPress plugins to store analytics and statistical data in your site database is a bad idea, since it will bloat your sites database as well as cause CPU usage issues. A plugin which has over 500,000+ active installs is WP Statistics, the plugin seems to have a number of issues in the amount of data it will store, how long the data is being stored for

clarify your message
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Three essential tips to clarify your message so you can generate more leads & more business

Picture this. You arrive at a business expo with business cards in hand. You are ready to get some leads at your new business networking conference. You are convinced that these folks need your services. You have drunk a little liquid courage (hey, no judgment here), and you go into the sea of faces. You are squeamish  just a bit because, after all, you are used to being in front of a computer and “slaying code.” You approach a couple of business owners. They look at you and with a big smile, reach out to shake your hand. They introduce

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove all Wordfence Plugin Created Data

Wordfence is well known and heavily used site security plugin but there may times when either a database table that Wordfence uses has been corrupted or you need to delete all of the data that Wordfence created on your site database. Wordfence does have a setting that you can enable to delete tables and data on deactivation it can be found from the following settings page; Wordfence > All Options > General Wordfence Options Wordfence has a plugin that can remove all data easily the plugin is called Wordfence Assistant. The plugin when installed and activated will add a new

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