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wp_redirection_404 table has grown to 7GB

The company I work for has an enterprise WordPress site that was acquired from a different company. I don’t know if there was ...

June 3, 2022
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How to limit WordPress pages during updates?

I will be doing upgrades to the design and content of my WordPress site. During this time I only want the homepage to ...

June 2, 2022
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Programatically switch page template?

I want to build a very simple toggle for taking my site down into a maintenance mode. To do that, I want to ...

May 30, 2022
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Could a higher number of registered image sizes affect performance?

This question is related to this one, but is a bit different. In the layout (archive page) for a WordPress project I’m working ...

May 28, 2022
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Should I add sharing buttons using a plugin or directly in my theme files?

This question relates to plugins for Linkedin Share buttons, Twitter Tweet buttons, and Facebook Like buttons. These are for blog posts on a ...

May 27, 2022
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What to do about a 11000 lines C++ source file?

So we have this huge (is 11000 lines huge?) mainmodule.cpp source file in our project and every time I have to touch it ...

May 25, 2022
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Editing Pages that Have Already Been Published

Sorry for the simple question. I’ve published a page. Let’s say that I now need to make changes to the page. Can I ...

May 24, 2022
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Is it possible to us WP Core Maintenance Mode for short pause while a plugin runs?

I’ve written a plugin to manually (admin button push) delete several hundred posts that are created by another plugin. That other plugin creates ...

May 24, 2022
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Can plugins become obsolete?

I presume WordPress plugins are made by third parties. Do plugins have to be kept up to date with WordPress upgrades? Can plugins ...

May 19, 2022
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Under which circumstances is the .maintenance file not deleted?

When WordPress does plugin/theme/core updates, it creates a .maintenance file which temporarily puts the site in maintenance mode. Sometimes this file does not ...

May 19, 2022
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