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Remove wp-admin Notifications Using Clarity Plugin
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Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Admin Notifications in wp-admin Using the Clarity Plugin

WordPress plugins do have a habit of adding admin notices and upsells that can be hard to dismiss and then they end up taking up much of the content space when in wp-admin. There is a new plugin that treats admin notifications in wp-admin like an ad blocker and it is called Clarity. Clarity Plugin Installation The Clarity plugin has no settings or configuration needed for it to work it will remove upsells and admin notifications from active plugins on the site from showing in wp-admin. The plugin currently supports the following plugins to remove admin notices and upsells; Yoast

Surge - A WordPress-Cache-Plugin-with-ZERO-Configurations
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Sebastian Moran

Surge – A WordPress Cache Plugin with ZERO Configurations

Sometimes setting up a WordPress caching plugin becomes tricky. A WordPress core contributor, Konstantin Kovshenin, came up with an idea to create a simple caching plugin with ZERO configurations and named it, “Surge“. It got a lot of traction in just a few days because of its simplicity. The Surge plugin includes no settings and works out of the box as soon as it is activated and you do not have to worry about any complex setup. Serving out a static HTML cached version of your site could potentially improve the load times for visitors and reduce the Time to

Remove Unused CSS WordPress
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Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Unused CSS on Your WordPress Site

When you are auditing your WordPress website speed with the performance audit tools such as Lighthouse or GTmetrix, one of the most challenging recommendations that will show is to remove unused CSS that is being loaded on your WordPress site. There are several WordPress plugins that claim to remove unused CSS but many fail. Here are the two easy plugins to be able to remove unused CSS that is loading on your WordPress website. 1. Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster – WordPress plugin The Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster is a new

Easily Delete Jetpack Options and Transients on Your Site
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Sebastian Moran

How to Easily Delete Jetpack Options and Transients on Your Site

Jetpack is a commonly used plugin on-sites the plugin will not remove all of its data when it is uninstalled. You can use a simple plugin that will delete two of the common option names in Jetpack. In order to delete the two main options for Jetpack, the plugin will need to be installed from the locally downloaded zip file and activated and it will delete the two options and then delete itself. jetpack_options Jetpack_private_options A complete list of the Jetpack options is as follows; jetpack_activated jetpack_activation_source jetpack_available_modules jetpack_connection_active_plugins jetpack_dismissed_connection_banner jetpack_options jetpack_private_options jetpack_sync_https_history_home_url jetpack_sync_https_history_site_url jetpack_tos_agreed Another plugin option to easily

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to use the Fluent Support Plugin on Your Site

Self-hosted support plugins are available for WordPress but a number can be limited. One of the newest support plugins that were launched is Fluent Support. The company behind the plugin WP Manage Ninja is also behind well-built plugins such as FluentCRM, Fluent Forms, WP Social Ninja, and Ninja Tables. To get going to setup the support portal setup you will need to create a support portal page and use the shortcode on it. The Portal page in Fluent Support uses the following shortcode. [fluent_support_portal] To show the built-in login form use [fluent_support_login] For the user registration use this shortcode [fluent_support_signup]

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Handy Wordfence Constants

Wordfence is a commonly used plugin for site security that has a free version and a premium version. Wordfence includes a number of constants that can be added to the site’s wp-config.php file to turn off specific features and change some of the defaults. MainWP has an easy-to-use code snippets plugin that will allow you to save these constants to any of the connected child sites into the child sites wp-config.php file. The Wordfence scan results page will show up to 100 results by default this can be increased or decreased by using the following constant and setting the value

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to use the Formality Plugin on your Site

There are a number of form plugins out there for WordPress but one of the most recent form plugins is one that works natively in the block editor and it is called Formality. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new admin menu item called; Formality Under the menu item, it will show forms and results. To create your first new form you can click on the add new for add new form buttons on the form page. Creating a new form is very easy you will need to give the form a title and

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Checking if the Removed Unused CSS feature in WP Rocket is Causing Performance Issues

The WP Rocket is a well-used full-page caching plugin that includes a number of optimization options. In version 3.9 of the WP Rocket plugin, it included a new remove unused CSS beta feature. The feature will use a background process that will run from a cron event and can take a while to run the feature depending on how much CSS needs to be removed on the site. The feature will use a custom database table to store the data in the named wpr_rucss_resources. If you have the remove unused CSS feature enabled you should check to see how large

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove AMP Plugin Data on Your Site

The AMP project from Google might be killed off in the future. Currently, the official AMP plugin does not have an uninstall option or a UI to remove posts and options that the plugin will store in the site’s database. The option to search for in phpMyAdmin would be using the following option name; amp-options Then once the AMP option has been found you select and then delete it. To delete the posts that the AMP plugin had created then the recommendation would be to use a plugin such as Bulk Delete in order to be able to achieve that.

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Migrate to Different SEO Plugins on your Site

If you have been using SEO plugin on your site for a while then it is worth checking the alternative SEO plugin options that are now available. Most of the commonly used SEO plugins include migration options such as SEOPress, Rank Math SEO, and SEO Framework (TSF). In this post, we will cover two of the most heavily used plugins for SEO on WordPress sites. After you have installed and activated the SEOPress plugin on your site you will be able to easily migrate data from your previous SEO plugin such as Yoast SEO. To migrate the SEO data go

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