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WooCommerce is rolling out a powerful new feature called Blueprints, designed to streamline and simplify store setup and product creation like never before. Whether you’re launching your first store or managing multiple WooCommerce sites, Blueprints can help you save time, maintain consistency, and boost productivity. So, what exactly are Blueprints? Think of them as reusable templates that capture all the key configurations of a product: everything from its type, category, pricing rules, attributes, tax status, shipping details, and custom metadata. Continue reading the post...

Previously, there was a premium plugin brands to be able to add that feature to your WooCommerce store. Recently, the brands plugin was merged into WooCommerce core as part of the effort to bring more features into WooCommerce core; this was in a beta version. WooCommerce brands feature in WooCommerce core is being enabled for all users in the WooCommerce 9.6 release, which is scheduled for release on the 20th of January. Suppose you already have a custom taxonomy on Continue reading the post...

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 Continue reading the post...

If you’re using the Smush image optimization plugin for WordPress but want to switch to another plugin, you can remove the previous Smush plugin data from your website’s database. To ensure the deletion of Smush plugin data upon uninstallation, from your WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to: Smush > Settings > Data & Settings Here’s the custom database table that the Smush plugin uses; wp_smush_dir_images If you want to manually delete the Smush database table, you can use the WP-Optimize plugin Continue reading the post...

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 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...

The All in One SEO is a commonly used SEO plugin with 3+ million active installs. If you want to migrate to a different SEO plugin, you should migrate the existing SEO and delete the previous plugin’s stored data. If you are migrating to the Rank Math SEO plugin, it supports the All in One SEO plugin data migration. The All in One SEO plugin uses the following database tables for data storage; wp_aioseo_cache wp_aioseo_notifications wp_aioseo_posts All in One SEO Continue reading the post...

If you want to migrate from the Yoast SEO plugin to alternative plugins, it is also worth making sure that any Yoast SEO plugin data is deleted from the site’s database. The custom database tables that the Yoast SEO plugin creates; wp_yoast_indexable wp_yoast_indexable_hierarchy wp_yoast_migrations wp_yoast_primary_term wp_yoast_prominent_words(note: only available in the Yoast SEO Premium plugin) wp_yoast_seo_links The option names that the Yoast SEO plugin uses; _transient_wpseo_unindexed_post_link_count _transient_timeout_wpseo_unindexed_post_link_count _transient_wpseo_unindexed_term_link_count _transient_timeout_wpseo_unindexed_term_link_count _transient_wpseo_total_unindexed_general_items _transient_timeout_wpseo_total_unindexed_general_items _transient_wpseo_total_unindexed_post_type_archives _transient_timeout_wpseo_total_unindexed_post_type_archives _transient_yoast_i18n_wordpress-seo_promo_hide wpseo_social wpseo_titles wpseo yoast_migrations_free Wpseo_taxonomy_meta If you Continue reading the post...

The WP Statistics is a widely used plugin with over 600k active installations and is used as a self-hosted solution to track analytics. The WP Statistics plugin uses the following custom database tables for data storage; wp_statistics_exclusions wp_statistics_historical wp_statistics_pages wp_statistics_search wp_statistics_useronline wp_statistics_visit wp_statistics_visitor wp_statistics_visitor_relationships The plugin does not have a built-in way to clean or delete the custom database tables other than manually deleting the custom tables using an application such as phpMyAdmin, or a plugin such as WP-Optimize. If Continue reading the post...

If you are looking for a well-built, performance-based security plugin for your site, then FluentAuth is a plugin that you should look at. FluentAuth includes the following features to secure your WordPress site; Two-Factor Authentication for Login Magic Login via Email Social Login / Register Limit Login Attempts Dynamic Login Redirects Detailed Audit Logs Core Security Enhancement Security Email Notifications After you have installed and activated the FluentAuth plugin, it will add a new admin menu in wp-admin; FluentAuth WordPress Continue reading the post...