Category: WordPress Hosting & Care

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January 7, 2025/Jamin Giersbach

How to Clean Up wp_postmeta Without Breaking WordPress

What WordPress keeps in wp_postmeta, why you should never empty it, and how to find and delete only the orphaned rows, after a backup.

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January 7, 2025/Jamin Giersbach

Reset a WordPress Password Without Email

Locked out of WordPress and the reset email never comes? How to set a new password safely in phpMyAdmin or with WP-CLI, following WordPress's own steps.

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July 26, 2024/Jamin Giersbach

What a DDoS Attack Means for a Small WordPress Site

What a DDoS attack is, how it differs from a password-guessing attack, how to tell if your WordPress site is under one, and where the defense really sits.

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January 28, 2024/Jamin Giersbach

10 WordPress Maintenance Tasks to Do Every Month

A monthly WordPress checklist: ten tasks in order, from the backup to Search Console, with where to find each one in the dashboard.

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January 23, 2024/Jamin Giersbach

LiteSpeed and LSCache for WordPress, Explained

What LiteSpeed Web Server and the LSCache plugin do for a WordPress site, which features need a LiteSpeed server, and where QUIC.cloud or Cloudflare fit.

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January 23, 2024/Jamin Giersbach

Headless WordPress with Next.js: When It Pays Off

What headless WordPress is, what a Next.js front end gains and what it costs, and what moving this blog off WordPress involved.

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January 4, 2024/Jamin Giersbach

How to Secure a WordPress Site: A Plain Checklist

A WordPress security checklist from WordPress's own docs: updates, passwords, roles, HTTPS, backups, file settings, and what to do if you're hacked.

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October 7, 2023/Jamin Giersbach

What It Takes to Look After a WordPress Site

What keeping a WordPress site healthy involves: updates, backups you can restore, the server, security, speed and the checks that catch problems early.