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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 24, 2023
By Kiki Sheldon
Using the Query Monitor plugin for a WordPress site

In this article, we will learn what the Query Monitor plugin is and how it can help us debug WordPress to improve website performance.
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