Drop multiple tables in mySQL / MariaDB

To start with. You can’t. Not directly, anyway. There is no “drop table prefix_%;”, so stop looking. This seems to be the easiest workaround that we’ve found based on information shared here. So here’s how we did it. For reference, anywhere a word or a phrase is wrapped in greater than / less than signs, … Read more

Edit “Processing” Orders in WooCommerce

We have a customer where all of their items are variable products. As you can imagine, there ends up being requests to change sizes, colors, or other variations. Once they’ve paid for the order, the status of the order gets set to “Processing” and WooCommerce won’t let you edit that order. Thanks to Nicola Mustone’s … Read more

Document Version Management Plugin

This definitely goes in the category of “Future Problems”. We don’t have anybody that would have need of this, but it sure looks like a very interesting plugin. From the WordPress plugin page: WP Document Revisions is a document management and version control plugin. Built for time-sensitive and mission-critical projects, teams can collaboratively edit files of any format — … Read more

Cleaning Up Admin Bar Clutter

Does it frustrate you when it seems that more and more plugins and themes feel like their particular offering is so incredibly critical that you HAVE to have it front-and-center on your admin bar? What happens when too many plugins start vying for that precious real estate? You end up with a cluttered, wrapping admin … Read more

WordPress 5.5 Released

From WordPress.org: WordPress 5.5 is the second major release of 2020 and aims to include a navigation menus block, automatic updates for plugins and themes, a block directory, XML sitemaps, lazy loading, and update Gutenberg to the latest release version as we continue to focus in 2020 on full site editing via Gutenberg. By far, … Read more

Critical Vulnerability Exposes over 700,000 Sites Using Divi, Extra, and Divi Builder

Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability present in two themes by Elegant Themes, Divi and Extra, as well as Divi Builder, a WordPress plugin. Combined, these products are installed on an estimated 700,000 sites. This flaw gave authenticated attackers, with contributor-level or above capabilities, the ability to upload arbitrary files, including PHP files, and achieve … Read more

Got Ugly CSS?

You need a CSS formatter. We’ve been experimenting with https://www.codebeautifier.com/, and it seems to do a great job. Not only will it format your CSS into something legible, it will combine duplicate entries to help you be able to clean up messy CSS entries.

A Rose By Any Other Name….

As we’ve stated before. Selecting a domain name is extremely important. A recent situation with a customer pointed out a corollary to this: Make sure you grab similar .com domain names while you’re registering your domain name. In this particular situation, the customer had a two word domain name. The second word was plural, the … Read more

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