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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 Continue reading the post...

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 ); Continue reading the post...

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 Continue reading the post...

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 Continue reading the post...

The Loginizer plugin is commonly used for brute force protection, failed login attempt logs, and IP control on your WordPress site. The custom database tables that the Loginizer plugin uses are; wp_loginizer_logs loginizer_csrf_promo_time loginizer_backuply_promo_time loginizer_promo_time loginizer_ins_time Loginizer_2fa_whitelist The plugin should remove all stored option values from the site’s database during uninstallation. To delete the database tables, get into your database administrator, such as phpMyAdmin, and look for; loginizer_ When you uninstall a plugin in WordPress, deleting the database tables it Continue reading the post...

In this edition of the MainWP Roundup, we look back at WordCamp Asia, what it is like to chat with Sydney, the perfect B2B website service page, and something a little fun. Are you ready to roll? Let’s go! WordCamp Asia recaps. Looking from the outside, WordCamp Asia seemed like a success. I saw lots of pictures and came close to having Fear of Missing Out, especially when I saw Mustaasam and Davinder take a picture. Glad to meet @MustaasamSaleem Continue reading the post...

With the constantly evolving nature of technology and its impacts on privacy, it should come as no surprise that privacy laws have to evolve as well constantly. For example, this year, six new privacy laws are going into effect – the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), Colorado Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), Connecticut SB6, and Quebec Bill 64. With over a dozen proposed privacy bills in the United States and potential updates Continue reading the post...

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 Continue reading the post...

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 Continue reading the post...

It’s that time of month where we explore tools you can use and add to your toolbox. This month we are looking at podcasting tools, a Schema Markup Generator, citation management and a review management platform. Buckle up! Podcast: How to start your podcast on a budget. Robert Cairns – slide deck. Stunning Digital Marketing’s Rob Cairns attended the PodCamp in Toronto this past weekend. He presented “How to start your podcast on a budget.”  How to start your podcast Continue reading the post...