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A large chunk of that number consists of WordPress websites which might be unsurprising to you since WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms out there. For that reason, you might think that it’s easy to build a successful website on WordPress simply because the platform itself is popular, but this might not be the case if you are making some common errors with your site.

The following guide is meant to help you slim down your WordPress MySQL database before distributing it to other developers. It’s so you can remove sensitive information from the database before providing it to others. These are not meant to be run on a live site.

The following code should be added to your functions.php file of your child theme for Astra.

Some bots can be aggressive with their crawlers. This can negatively impact your visits with your hosting provider, and consumes resources thus slowing down the site. Here’s how to block them.

Increase the security of your website by adding security headers using this guide.

Do you have a bunch of users that have made no orders on WooCommerce? Or perhaps they are spam users? Here’s a SQL command that you can run to delete all orders that are not associated with an order.

I had a recent spike in traffic but since removing Google Analytics, I had no way to know how much traffic was coming my way. I removed Google Analytics for privacy reasons but I still would like to have some data while still respecting a visitors privacy. Introducing Matomo.