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Useful AI Tools for WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Popular AI Tools for Your WordPress Website

Artificial Intelligent (AI) has made great strides over the last six months and has come to the forefront of innovation. Many plugins for WordPress have started implementing AI in creative ways, such as for generating SEO titles and meta descriptions, content creation along with CSS, and custom code generation in the case of Elementor AI, which made its AI features available in the 3.13 release. Kadence WP is working on AI features that will make default content starter content generation easier, which should help new site creation of new page content creation easier. Many plugins for WordPress integrate AI services

Remove Unused Imagify Plugin Data - WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Imagify Plugin Data on WordPress

Imagify is a popular plugin with over 700,000 active installs that optimizes images on WordPress sites. If you’re considering switching to another plugin like EWWW Image Optimization or TinyPNG, it’s important to follow the necessary steps to uninstall Imagify and remove any unused data from the server. This ensures a smooth transition to the new plugin without any conflicts or issues. Before you uninstall the Imagify plugin, restoring the original images to the unoptimized versions is recommended. The Imagify plugin’s original images would be stored in either of the following folder paths; /wp-content/uploads/backup /imagify-backups As a part of data cleanup

MainWP Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

MainWP Roundup: Atarim Web Agency Summit, Notable WordPress News, and Plugin plug-ins

In today’s MainWP Roundup, we take a look at WordPress Veteran Spotlights at WP Connects, Plugin news, Notable WordPress News and the Atarim Web Agency Summit. WP Connects rolls out featured WordPress Veteran Spotlights We introduced you to WP Connects and Talisha? last year, an organization who helps military veterans connect with the WordPress workforce. With the help of Sophia DeRosia, WP Connects rolled out Veteran WP spotlights. The first veteran, Scott Dluzio, was introduced on January 30, 2023. Since then WP Connects have featured three more veterans in the WordPress space. The most recent spotlight was published on March

Themeco and All in One SEO Conflict with WordPress 6.2
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Common Issues Found with Themes & Plugin with WordPress 6.2

WordPress 6.2 was released on the 29th of March and is the first major WordPress core release of 2023. The X and Pro themes from Themeco had some issues after updating to WordPress 6.2, which were updated quickly after the problem was found. The bug was related to one of the changes that went out in the WordPress 6.2 release, which was causing CPU high usage issues for the site, but can be quickly resolved using the newest version of the theme. Bugfix: The reason for an early release, WordPress 6.2 sends us into an infinite loop when we try

MainWP Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

January MainWP Roundup: WordPress themes and plugins

It is a new year and we will find new topics to chat about. This month’s MainWP Roundup includes WordPress plugins and themes, categorization of plugins and themes, healthcare data breaches and a few more. Get ready to ride ya’ll. The Most Popular WordPress Plugins Released in 2022 on WordPress.org Read the Article End of the year means we spend time looking at data and such. I Love WP does just that when it comes to WordPress plugins. Dumitru Brinzan pulled data from the repository to find the top plugins released in 2022. The data is from December 1st 2021

WordPress Developer Plugins
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Useful WordPress Developer Plugins for Your Site

With the massive amount of plugins available for WordPress, it can be hard to know the most useful ones if you are a WordPress developer. 1. WP Crontrol WP Crontrol is a plugin that allows you to see and control the CRON events in wp-admin that are running on your WordPress site. The cron events will be broken down from one native to WordPress core. The CRON events from active plugins on the site would show in the custom cron events section. The plugin will allow you to remove left-over cron events from plugins that were uninstalled and no longer

Patchstack - WordPress Security Plugin
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using Patchstack Security on Your WordPress Website

Keeping a track of which plugins and themes have vulnerabilities on sites can be a pain to have to deal with. WordPress plugins and themes are responsible for up to 90% of all WordPress vulnerabilities. Patchstack WordPress Plugin Patchstack (previously WebARX) launched a WordPress plugin and a free plan containing features such as; Component Detection Vulnerability Monitoring Real-time Threat Alerts Actionable Suggestions After you have installed and activated the Patchstack plugin, it will add a new sub-menu item to; Settings > Security In order to use the plugin, you will need to create an account with Patchstack and then copy

Clean Up WordPress Site
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Clean Up WordPress Site for Better Performance

Now is the time of the year to clean up WordPress site for better performance and security. One of the easiest ways would be to remove unused plugins and themes. It is very easy for a site to have several inactive plugins on it. This could happen when plugins have been replaced with better-coded plugins, but the original plugins were not deleted on the site. Also if you have been testing plugins on a site for a specific feature but then the plugin is left on the site and not deleted. Why Remove Inactive Plugins? Removing inactive plugins that are

Find Slow Admin Ajax Requests in WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Look for Slow Front-end admin-ajax.php Requests on Your Site

If you are focused on making sure that your site is loading as fast as possible it is important to watch for slow POST admin-ajax.php requests being made on your site. Two tools to use for testing the front-end performance of the site would be GTmetrix and WebPageTest. Looking in the tested sites waterfall for slow requests will show you if one of the active plugins on the site is using admin-ajax.php for a function. An example would be if you are using the PixelYourSite plugin, there is a setting if you are using the conversion API for the Meta

Preconnect 3rd Party Domains
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Preconnect 3rd Party Domains on Your Site

When you are testing your site’s front-end performance using an online tool such as GTmetrix or WebPageTest you will notice the 3rd party domains that are being connected to on the site. One way to improve the front-end performance for site visitors is to set 3rd party domains to be preconnected by the visitor’s browser. Third-party domains that are worth setting as being preconnected to would be CDNs, Image CDN, Web font-s, Facebook Connect, Google Analytics, etc. Picking the most critical third-party domains should be the ones that you focus on first on your site. Two easy plugin methods to

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