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Author : Kiki Sheldon

Kiki works as a Security Specialist for Liquid Web. Before joining the Abuse & Security Operations Department, she worked on the Liquid Web Managed Hosting Support Team, where she gained extensive knowledge of Linux System Administration and popular Content Management Systems (CMSs).

Kiki’s passion for writing allows her to share her professional expertise and help others. She keeps up with technology and always looks to improve her technical skills. In her free time, she enjoys reading, especially classic books and detective stories.

March 15, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

Rollback of a plugin or theme using WP-Admin or WP-CLI

Managing plugin, theme, and WordPress core updates are an essential part of a WordPress site administration — knowing how to rollback plugin updates is vital in this context.

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wp-cli,wp-admin,plugin updates,plugin,WordPress plugin,woocommerce plugin,troubleshooting wordpress,Performance,website performance,wordpress site performance,WooCommerce Performance,debugging plugins & theme conflicts,how to address a plugin conflict,web applications

March 03, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

Truncating MariaDB/MySQL tables in the Nexcess Cloud

Truncating MariaDB/MySQL tables allows you to easily remove all data from the chosen MySQL database tables without having to manually delete and recreate them.

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repairing database tables,database tuning,data,mysql database management ,mysql servers and databases,mysql database,tuning your mysql database for performance ,database,database tables,mysql database,phpmyadmin,what are the best features of phpmyadmin?

March 03, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

Importing and exporting a MySQL database

You can export/import MySQL databases using different tools. Exporting a MySQL database helps create a database backup for a website restoration process, cloning, or migration to a new server.

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data,mysql database,wordpress database,mysql database management ,database using wp-cli,mysql servers and databases,database tables,database table names & sizes,database field names & details ,wp-cli commands for your wordpress database,data migration,how do you export a mysql database using phpmyadmin?

February 21, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

Convert MyISAM to InnoDB tables for database performance

With regard to database tables and storage engines, after learning why we would want to convert MyISAM to InnoDB for better performance, let’s review four methods for doing so.

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wordpress database,data,mysql servers and databases,mysql database,database tables,database table names & sizes,web applications,woocommerce setup,store setup,mysql database,mysql database management

February 21, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

Moving a WordPress site to a new server

You know your website the best, so knowing how to perform a WordPress migration manually can save you time and money by moving a WordPress site to a new server yourself.

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migrate,wordpress migration,moving a wordpress site,WordPress,woocommerce setup,wordpress configuration,wordpress database,WordPress hosting,Web development,Web Hosting

February 20, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

WordPress email setup — changing sender name/address

In this tutorial for WordPress, you will learn why you need to change the default WordPress email setup and how to change the sender name/address in WordPress emails.

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Email,website email,wordpress email,woocommerce email,transactional email,WordPress,optimized wordpress,WordPress hosting,wordpress configuration

February 07, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

WordPress settings: how to disable autosave in WordPress

Autosaving is an excellent WordPress feature, but when necessary, learn how to change the behavior of the Heartbeat API and autosaves with a WordPress plugin or certain WordPress settings.

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WordPress,optimized wordpress,optimizing,wordpress configuration,WooCommerce,woocommerce setup,setup woocommerce,wordpress maintenance,WordPress management,speed up WordPress

February 07, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

Strong password rules: enforcing strong passwords in WordPress

Nexcess has compiled this article to help you harden your overall user password security for the WordPress platform by implementing and enforcing strong password rules.

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ithemes security help,paid ithemes security pro plugin ,ithemes security review,ithemes security pro plugin,WordPress,WordPress security,Managed WordPress Security,WooCommerce,Password Protection,password,security plugins,website

January 31, 2023

By Kiki Sheldon

How to access a WordPress database with connection errors

In this article, we will learn how to access a WordPress database by troubleshooting and resolving the condition behind the "Error Establishing a Database Connection" message.

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