When migrating your WordPress site to https you can have leftover http references causing mixed content warnings and missing green secure locks in browsers! Despite using a migration tool or some plugin to do a simple search and replace, they don’t catch all the http references which can cause mixed content errors errors and insecure … Learn more…
WordPress plugins and themes can store a lot of temporary data known as transients. By default these transients are stored in the wp_options table and can accumulate rather quickly. Recently on codeable I cleaned a site with 58000 expired transients that were causing the database to crash daily. Due to an idiosyncrasy in WordPress core, … Learn more…
Using Google Analytics to gain traffic insights for your WordPress or WooCommerce site can track visitors and conversion rates. If you use tracking for email blasts when you publish new posts or product deals, you may find visitors get a slower experience. Google Analytics adds a query string that looks something like ?utm_source=mailchimp which bypasses any caching you … Learn more…
Monit can be used to monitor your services on your VPS or dedicated server. You can use Monit to make sure MySQL (MariaDB, Percona etc) is always running in case it crashes because of bots brute forcing or it runs out of resources. Monit will check the MySQL process by looking at the unix socket it is … Learn more…
Sometimes you may find yourself wishing you had a list of all of the post, pages and category URLs of your WordPress or WooCommerce site. For example if you want to batch invalidate posts on Facebook for sharing, it can be very handy to have a text file of all your URLs for easy copy … Learn more…