Using NextGEN Gallery can leave orphaned records in the posts and posts meta database tables, especially if you add and delete galleries often. I created this plugin to clean up the orphaned records. It analyzes the WordPress tables for orphaned records related to NextGEN and in the NextGEN specific tables as well. It then shows you the number of orphans in each specific table. The plugin will clean up these orphaned records (delete), if you click “Clean”.
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Handling Huge MySQL Database Table Exports/Imports/Backups
Exporting, Backup, Restore, Importing Big Huge MySQL Tables can be a problem. Tables can become so big that it’s problematic. The last thing you want is a site that’s down and you can’t seem to get a database or even just a single table restore to work. Here’s how to successfully backup and restore huge mySQL tables.
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WordPress Continue Reading Link Plugin for Excerpts
Adds a “Continue Reading” link to Hand-Crafted Excerpts on Archive Pages (i.e. Blog). Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content, that show up on Archive Pages, RSS feeds, etc. Hand-crafting these summaries give you a SEO as well as click through advantage. Mainly for use with Studio Press since Studio Press adds continue link to auto generated excerpts but not hand-crafted, but should work with other themes as well. Just note that this only modifies output for posts you’ve entered text into the “Excerpt” field, and, for theme that display the “Excerpt” field on Archive Pages.
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WordPress Malware Removal and How to Secure WordPress
How to secure your WordPress site against hacks and WordPress Malware Removal to recover from existing exploits and DDOS. These are the tools and methods I use. Stop your server from Spam Email! You wake up to find that your WordPress website or server is sending out spam email. You desperately try to stop it but it’s sending more spam faster than you can plug the leaks! Or, you want to protect your WordPress site from spam, Malware, exploits. What do you do? In this post I outline the tools I use and how to proceed to clean up your site, or to protect it if it’s not currently compromised.
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BackWPup Job Restarts Due to Inactivity for more than 5 Minutes
How to Fix the BackWPup Wordpress plugin error message: WARNING: Job restarts due to inactivity for more than 5 minutes. How to stop this frustrating error. You may have pulled your hair out trying to get a completed backup, or even trying to find some help on the subject that actually fixed the problem. Here’s how to fix BackWPup “WARNING: Job Restarts Due to Inactivity for more than 5 Minutes” error message (with the disclaimer that this has worked for me and hopefully will work for you too).
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Essential WordPress Plugins
30+ WordPress Plugins that can make your blog or website easier to manage, better, more secure, faster, optimized for search engines, and do things you never thought you could do! WordPress is an incredibly powerful web publishing platform or content management system. Depending on the theme you select or create, and the plugins you load, it can be used for a wide variety of website purposes from simply an informational website, to a blog, to a full blown e-commerce site, and more. One of the great things about WordPress is that there are literally thousands of plugins available and the majority are free or have a free version. Some of the plugins I list are not free, but when you’re running a business on your website, you need to use the correct tools, and sometimes that requires paying for a plugin or two. Don’t be cheap; it will cost you more in the long run.
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