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Extreme WordPress Housekeeping for Performance

Alt title: How I cut GIGABYTES off a WordPress database One of the things we care about here at Cinch is website performance. We provide our customers support and guidance on how to keep a website fast, as well as managing some

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The Best WordPress Backup Solutions

74.6 million unique websites depend upon WordPress to stay up and running every day, with six new posts being uploaded to the site every second. If you are one of the millions that uses WordPress to manage your website, then you know

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Passing variables through get_template_part()

When developing a WordPress theme I like to organize code into manageable, reusable pieces when ever possible. One great way of doing this is to add an inc directory to the theme and fetch files from it using: https://gist.github.com/spigotdesign/18d0206e3a3d458c7149 This works great

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Prevent Safari from unzipping and deleting zip files

Safari's default behavior is to unzip downloaded zip files, and also delete them. While this is nice some of the time, it isn't ideal all of the time. So rather than go hunting through the trash I'd rather turn the option off

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Uptime Monitoring of WordPress Sites

You have a business to run and a life to live – one that doesn’t include constantly checking your WordPress site for problems. Websites and servers do go down from time to time, however, and not knowing there is an issue can

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Change WordPress admin email without confirmation

When we're building a new WordPress powered website one of the very first things we do in the setup process is create the first admin user. The email address associated becomes the main admin for the site. You can see this under

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Cloud Backups

Website backups are vital to your site’s long-term health. Unfortunately, the free WordPress backups provided by hosting companies typically aren’t enough to reliably restore your site to its full glory after a crash… or in some cases, even restore it at all.

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Connecting to Amazon EC2 via SFTP

Our support customers use a wide range of web hosting companies to host their websites. Many host with us, but most are using one of the million web hosts available. But while the companies may vary, the general hosting configuration is the

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WooCommerce 2.7 release delayed, version changing to 3.0.0

We were expecting a brand new, major release version of WooCommerce to be released today (2.7), but in a post on the WooCommerce Dev blog, it looks like it's being pushed back a few weeks, likely April 4th. Critical bug found Pushing

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How do I reset a user’s password in WordPress?

In WordPress, there are numerous ways to reset yours, or another users password. Here's a few different ways you can do that: Reset a user password through the WordPress admin In the Admin Panel menu, go to UsersClick on the user you'd

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Remove expired SSL certs before adding Let’s Encrypt

We love Let's Encrypt because it makes running an SSL certificate easy to set-up, it renews automatically, and provides tough data encryption. You might be one of the many site owners who are interested in making the switch from an existing annual

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Why We Recommend Extensions from WooCommerce.com

We support a ton of customers running WooCommerce on their sites and have seen an equal ton of WooCommerce extensions and plugins on those sites. Over the years we've noticed a few patterns and can safely say that we highly recommend using

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Royal Slider Security Notice

WP Scan Vulnerability Database has released information about a potential security hole discovered in the popular Royal Slider plugin. The exploit allows a remote attacker to trick a logged-in administrator to open a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script

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WooCommerce set default product category

If you're looking how to set the default product category in WooCommerce, you might think to look for a setting somewhere. After all, setting the default post category is found in Settings > Writing. But it's even simpler to set than that.

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Gutenberg 4.0 Changelog

New Features Add ability to change overlay color in Cover Image.Introduce new Font Size Picker with clear labels and size comparison.Introduce new RichText data structure to allow better manipulation of inline content.Add Pullquote style variation and color palette support.Add support for post

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How the lost password function in WordPress works

At some point in time you, or another user of your WordPress site, will forget their password and will need to have it reset. WordPress has automated this activity and made it simple. Self-service vs. admin-managed password resets The built-in “lost password”

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Is Cinch Right for You?

WordPress and the related software required to run a website are constantly changing, evolving, and improving. This necessitates an active website management approach. There are almost daily tasks that need to be performed to ensure a website is up to date, safe,

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Remove WooCommerce Marketing Hub Menu Item

WooCommerce 4.1.0 was released yesterday and among the various updates, there's now a new Marketing tab below the Analytics menu item. This is a new addition to WooCommerce, which they are dubbing the Marketing Hub. Taking a look at the new section

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Why Independent Cloud Backups Are Vital to Your WordPress Website

In the immortal words of Elanor Shellstrop, when it comes to using free web hosting backups: “Ya basic.”  And in this instance, “basic” isn’t as delightfully harmless as the current pop culture obsession with all things pumpkin-spiced. Unfortunately, the cost of relying

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Optimizing a ThemeForest theme

WordPress themes from ThemeForest are perhaps the most popular premium themes available. Themes like Avada, X | The Theme, and Enfold have over 100,000 sales each (Avada has nearly 400k sales). These themes provide their users a ton of control and options,

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