Create a new WordPress admin user using phpMyAdmin

Have you ever found yourself locked out of your WordPress admin panel? Whether due to a forgotten password or an unexpected website issue, losing access can be frustrating. Fortunately, there’s a reliable workaround: creating a new admin user directly in your site’s database using phpMyAdmin. This guide will walk you through each step. Step 1:…

How to delete a specific table from your WordPress Database

When you are using WordPress, it arrives that you need to delete a specific table from your database. For example, to completely delete Yoast plugin traces (after uninstalling it via FTP), you will need to delete some tables such as “yoast_indexable”, “yoast_indexable_hierarchy”, “yoast_migrations”, etc. As it is reported here. (Make sure to back up your…

How to increase your PHP Max Execution Time in case of a timeout error

When executing PHP scripts that manipulate large amounts of data, such as exporting/importing a large database, processing a big number of files, etc. timeout errors may occur. Most hosting companies set the max execution time to 30 or 60 seconds. PHP will end scripts and you will get error messages such as “Maximum execution time…

4 Things That May Be Slowing Your WordPress Site Down

WordPress may be a free CMS simple enough for beginners to use, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an excellent option for business-level sites. Configured and maintained well, it can do an excellent job as the foundation for your site — so if you’ve noticed that your site is struggling along, you can’t blame it…

What are WordPress orphaned term meta and how to clean them?

The term metadata is the information that is provided for each taxonomy term. This information usually includes additional data that is not stored in the terms table of WordPress. In some cases, some term metadata information becomes orphaned and does not belong to any taxonomy term. They are then called “orphaned term meta” and should…

What are WordPress orphaned user meta and how to clean them?

The user metadata is the information you provide to viewers about each user. This information usually includes additional data that is not stored in the users’ table of WordPress. In some cases, some user metadata information become orphaned and does not belong to any user. They are then called “orphaned user meta” and should be…