Nexcess Knowledge Base
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.
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.
January 24, 2023
By Kiki Sheldon
How to clean up, remove, and manage WordPress plugins
In this article, we will learn how to manage WordPress plugins, including how to remove the unused ones properly to ensure our website is not overloaded with any residual data.
January 13, 2023
By Kiki Sheldon
Magento 2 + Cloudinary — tutorial for setup by admins
In this Cloudinary tutorial, we will cover integrating Cloudinary with Magento 2, including the benefits involved, as well as leveraging Cloudinary to speed up your ecommerce website.
January 12, 2023
By Kiki Sheldon
Accessing the website database in the Nexcess Client Portal
You can access your website database from the Site Dashboard within the Nexcess Client Portal by using the phpMyAdmin utility as an excellent tool for database management.
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