Trackbacks allow you to notify other website owners that you have linked to their article on your website. Read more These trackbacks can be used to send huge amounts of spam. Spammers use them to get their links posted on as many sites as possible. That is why they should be deactivated/cleaned if you do…
Pingbacks allow you to notify other website owners that you have linked to their article on your website. Pingbacks were designed to solve some of the problems that people saw with trackbacks. Although there are some minor technical differences, a trackback is basically the same things as a pingback. Read more These pingbacks can be…
A trash post is a post that you have deleted from your WordPress site and have been moved to the trash. A trash post is not visible in your site and should be deleted since it is not used. You can either use our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner to clean-up these trash posts or execute…
After purchasing the plugin you will receive automatically a purchase receipt containing your license key and download link to download the pro version of the plugin. In general, there are 2 ways to install the pro version of the “ADC” plugin: = 1. Via uploading the plugin to the WordPress dashboard = 1. Download the pro version…
The comment metadata is the information you provide to viewers about each comment. This information usually includes the author of the comment, when it was written (or posted), etc. In some cases, some comment metadata information becomes orphan and does not belong to any comment. They are then called “orphan comment meta” and should be…
A transient is a way for storing cached data temporarily in your database by giving it a name and a timeframe after which it will expire and be deleted. To clean this dashboard transient feeds, you can either use our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner or execute the following SQL code (which is used by the…
Sometimes the ‘wp_term_relationships’ table becomes bloated with many orphaned relationships. This happens particularly often if you’re using your site not as a blog but as some other type of content site where posts are deleted periodically. Over time, you could get thousands of term relationships for posts that no longer exist which consumes a lot…
The post metadata is the information you provide to viewers about each post. This information usually includes the author of the post, when it was written (or posted), and how the author categorized that particular post. In some cases, some post metadata information becomes orphan and do not belong to any post. They are then…
A trash comment is a comment that you have deleted from your WordPress site and have been moved to the trash. A trash comment is not visible in your site and should be deleted forever. You can either use our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner to clean-up these trash comments or execute the following SQL code…
A WordPress spam comment is a comment that you (or a plugin like Akismet) have marked as spam. You can either use our plugin Advanced Database Cleaner to clean-up these spam comments or execute the following SQL code (which is used by the plugin) directly via your phpMyAdmin: DELETE FROM comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘spam’