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Delete iThemes Security Log Database Table

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Optimizing the iThemes Security Plugin Log Database Table

The iThemes Security plugin is a powerful plugin for protecting your WordPress website. However, the plugin’s log database table can grow over time, slowing your website. There are a few things you can do to optimize the iThemes Security plugin log database table: Delete old logs. By default, the iThemes Security plugin keeps logs for 30 days. You can delete older logs to free up space in your database. Reduce the log retention period. You can reduce the number of days that the iThemes Security plugin keeps logs by going to Security > Settings > Configure > Global Settings and

Sebastian Moran August 9, 2023 No Comments

Set up Biometric Logins and Passkeys on WordPress

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How to Use the Biometric Logins and Passkeys on WordPress

The iThemes Security Pro plugin added new beta biometric logins and passkey support. This now means that it is much easier for passwordless login to your WordPress site. Passkeys work on Apple and iOS devices and are also supported by Microsoft and Windows. Android support for Passkeys should be coming by the end of 2022. As part of the FIDO alliance, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are all committed to expanding the FIDO standard for passwordless sign-in. The WebAuthn standard is supported in Apple and Google devices. To check if your browser supports this, then use this site. The Face ID,

Sebastian Moran September 21, 2022 1 Comment

iThemes Security Plugin Data Remove After Uninstallation

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How to Remove iThemes Security Plugin Data Leftover on Uninstall

If you use the iThemes Security plugin on your WordPress website and want to uninstall it completely, but, the normal uninstallation sometimes leaves the database tables and cron events that you may need to remove manually. This guide is for you! iThemes Security Plugin for WordPress In order to remove the iThemes Security plugin’s database entries, you can use the WP-Optimize plugin as one of the easiest ways to find database tables of iThemes security. After installing and activating the WP-Optimize plugin, navigate to: WP-Optimize > Database > Tables Search for itsec and remove all the database tables that are

Sebastian Moran June 1, 2022 2 Comments

Version Management iThemes Security Pro Plugin

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How to Use “Version Management” in iThemes Security Pro

If you are already using the iThemes Security Pro plugin for site security on any of your Child Sites then you can use a built-in module to control automatic updates on your Child Site(s). The module is called “Version Management” which will give you control over automatic updates for WordPress core, plugins, and themes. The version management comes in handy if the site has a limited stack of installed plugins and includes mostly the static content without a lot of common breaking changes. Version Management in iThemes Security Pro You can find the module from the following admin menu item;

Sebastian Moran April 27, 2022 No Comments

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How to remove the iThemes Security Plugin Created Database Tables

There may be times when you need to change which security plugin on your child site to a different security plugin. In this example, this is going to cover how to remove all of the iThemes Security plugin created custom database tables on your site. All of the iThemes Security plugin created custom database tables; wp_itsec_distributed_storage wp_itsec_fingerprints wp_itsec_geolocation_cache wp_itsec_lockouts wp_itsec_logs wp_itsec_mutexes wp_itsec_opaque_tokens wp_itsec_temp wp_itsec_user_groups The iThemes Security plugin does make it easier than most plugins to remove the created custom database tables in they can be removed when you delete to uninstall the plugin. If you delete the iThemes Security

Sebastian Moran August 21, 2020 No Comments

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Handy iThemes Security Constants

iThemes Security plugin is an easy to use security plugin for your child sites. One of the lesser known things about iThemes Security is that the plugin includes a number of constants, which can be added to your child site’s wp-config.php file to set certain things on or off. MainWP has an amazing code snippets extension, which allows you to set constants from the MainWP Dashboard site. This means that any of these constants for iThemes Security plugin can easily be saved to any connected child sites. If you had issues with emails being sent from iThemes Security plugin, or

Sebastian Moran June 20, 2019 1 Comment

Conversion

How to Convert from iThemes Sync to MainWP for your Sites

iThemes Sync is a Software as a service (SaaS) for managing multiple WordPress sites. MainWP is not SaaS-based and it will never be. It is very easy to change over from iThemes Sync to MainWP to manage all your clients’ sites. First, you will need to install MainWP Dashboard to create a Dashboard site to manage all of the connected sites. It is always recommended to use a fresh WordPress install for the MainWP dashboard site. First, install the MainWP Dashboard plugin, then activate and walk through the steps of the setup wizard. Once you have set up the MainWP Dashboard

Sebastian Moran March 14, 2019 No Comments