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How to use PHPMyAdmin to change for WordPress

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Deactivating WordPress Plugins This process may be a little intimidating for those who are unfamiliar with how WordPress utilizes plugins via the database. They use a long string that looks like this To understand what this is; we’ll break it down. ‘a:8:’ is the number of active plugins. This string currently has 8 active plugins. […]

How to Reset a WordPress (Admin) Password

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Occasionally, it is necessary to reset a WordPress password. Sometimes you still have access with the old password, and simply want to make a new password to keep potential attackers guessing. Other times, you might have forgotten the old password, and need to set a new one in order to access your account on the […]

How to Use the Cron Daemon for wp-cron

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This article describes how to replace WordPress’s internal cron mechanism with a cron job run by the operating system’s cron daemon. What is wp-cron and How Does it Affect Your WordPress Site File wp-cron.php resides in the root directory of the WordPress site and is checked each time someone visits your site. If there is a task and its […]