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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 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 […]

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Preload Resources in a WordPress theme functions.php file

Sometimes a report from Lighthouse will indicate you should preload a resource. Adding this (and replacing the href, and making sure you use the correct as= value) to your theme’s functions.php file will preload a resource. Note that in the case of fonts, the cross-origin attribute is required, even if the file is not actually […]

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Errors Importing Prebuilt Template from Avada 7+

This may be an edge case that no one else has issues with, but here is my setup: cPanel SiteGround hosting Primary primary.tld site lives in the public_html/ folder, and many staging sites live in public_html/staging/. DNS points newdomain.staging.tld to SG IP address SG cPanel configured with subdomain pointing to specific folder inside staging/ The […]

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Symlink to App Directory

When you build a web app, not all of the files related to the project or in your git repo need to be publicly accessible. You can clone the repo to the webserver, but then create a symlink to connect your Apache DocRoot (or somewhere else in an existing site’s folder structure) to point to […]

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Delegate Access on GoDaddy Domains

If you have someone helping manage or launch a website for you, and you have your domain name registered through GoDaddy, it can be really helpful to give them some access to your GoDaddy account without having to give them your own username and password. GoDaddy has several levels of access that you can grant […]