How to Create a WordPress Development Environment in Seconds with DesktopServer
October 18, 2011 DesktopServer offers one of the quickest and easiest ways to set up a WordPress development environment.
Daily Tip: WP-phpmyadmin Plugin Poses a Huge Security Risk
Big surprise, right? Why in the world anybody would be using a plugin called WP-phpmyadmin is beyond me, but reports are our that many sites are being hacked through it. Formerly housed at wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpmyadmin/, this plugin has already been pulled [...]
Daily Tip: How to Reset Your WordPress Password From the Database
From time to time you may encounter an unusual situation wherein you need to reset your WordPress password but you no longer (or never did) have access to the email address associated with your account. Perhaps you’ve “inherited” this website [...]
Speeding Up Your WordPress Website: 11 Ways to Improve Your Load Time
April 5, 2011 One of the questions that comes up fairly regularly in my weekly WPMU DEV chats is “how can I speed up my WordPress website?” It’s an important question, particularly for businesses who want to scale their website. Of course, the [...]
How to Completely Delete BuddyPress From Your WordPress Site
So maybe you tried BuddyPress and it just wasn’t what you needed. It’s great to experiment, but now you want to completely remove it from your site. Unfortunately, this is no small task. In this tutorial we’ll walk you through [...]
How to Unlock the Secret “All Settings” Menu in the WordPress Dashboard
Here’s a fun trick that may come in handy for you sometime down the road. This little snippet will enable you to see all WordPress options at once, even the ones that are not normally visible in the dashboard Settings [...]
Daily Tip: How to Disable Comments On Older Posts to Cut Down on Spam
If you’re getting a fair bit of spam on older blog posts, you may want to disable commenting on posts older than a year or two. Because your posts are still indexed by search engines, you’ll still be getting traffic [...]
WordPress Maintenance 101: How to Optimize and Repair Database Tables
From time to time it is a good idea to do a little housekeeping with your WordPress installation, especially if you’ve been experimenting with and deleting plugins. MySQL databases don’t clean themselves. Optimizing your database is something akin to when [...]
Running SQL code on your WPMU database
July 14, 2009 Taken from: The WordPress MU Manual Occasionally you will install a mu-plugin where the auto-install fails to add the db table(s) for you. This means you will need to run the SQL code in the “sql.txt” on your WPMU database. [...]
