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Clearing Caches in a SiteGround Hosted Site

Part of a collection on cache clearing Make sure you are on the Site Tools page for your site, and not just the Site Ground admin area for your account. Accessing Site Tools Below: Accessing the Site Tools cache area Cycling SiteGround Nginx Direct Delivery Flushing SiteGround Dynamic Cache Flushing SiteGround Memcached Accessing the Site Tools […]

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SiteGround: Accessing Site Tools

“Site Tools” is the admin area of SiteGround’s web hosting for managing a site’s files, databases, caching, and more. To access Site Tools, follow these steps: First, Login to SiteGround From the top-navigation, select Websites If your account does not “own” the hosting package, but you’ve been invited to be a collaborator, choose the “Collaborations” […]

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Clearing Caches

If your website loads, but just looks miserable (plain white background, not your fonts, etc), or is not showing edits you recently made on the site – it is probably an issue with an outdated cache in your website or on your web host. My experience with caches is primarily in WordPress sites, so this […]

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Clearing WordPress Plugin Caches

Part of a collection on cache clearing Below How to clear LiteSpeed Cache How to clear WP Super Cache How to clear LiteSpeed Cache From the Admin bar of your WordPress site, click the LiteSpeed icon, and then click the Purge All button How to clear WP Super Cache From the Admin bar of your […]

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Clearing Caches on WordPress Sites running Avada Themes

Part of a collection on cache clearing WordPress sites using an Avada theme have at least a built-in cache with their theme, and other caching plugins may also be installed. Below How to clear Avada’s cache How to clear Avada’s cache First, click Avada and then Options from the left-side nav: Then select Performance from […]

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Free up Google Account Storage Space

TL;DR for myself: GYB by year, and save to B2 Unattach (has:attachment) by year, and save to B2 Personal Google accounts (as of this writing) give you 15GB of free storage (some opportunities to earn “bonus storage” were available at times, but typically is 15GB). This is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. […]

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Git Bisect

tl;dr Some more details… I love this tool, but always forget how to use it. Start the bisect session: The first thing we need to put some “bookends” on the session, or tell git a spot we know in the repo is that is good, and a spot that we know is bad: These can […]

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WordPress JS/CSS files 404’d

The site was reporting many JS/CSS files as 404 (this was with the MMR plugin, but I’m pretty sure that was coincidental). Switching to a twenty* theme with 0 plugins enabled didn’t result in any change, so it seemed like a caching issue. There was a normal install of WP Super Cache, as well as […]

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WordPress DocRoot Permissions & Ownership

This is a TL;DR of me trying to responsibly struggle against WordPress prompting for FTP credentials. This is my best compromise of security and usability when I want to support some in-browser updates and uploads, while also not sudo ing everything when working on the server.

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Git Repo Size

I had a private Bitbucket repo that was complaining I was over the soft limit of 1GB. I thought I had remembered cleaning up my commit history a long time ago to re-size this repo, but it was still showing in the Bitbucket/<user>/<repo>/admin that it was over 1GB. The repo definitely wasn’t taking up that […]