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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Cleaning unused data from the database

The default WordPress database tables are built primarily for blogging and the basics of content management systems, even though we can use them for large-scale advanced applications. The default features are handled by 11 core database tables. We also use several plugins that add more data to these default tables. As the site gets larger, we may experience performance issues due to storing large amounts of data in a limited set of tables. So, it's essential to regularly track the database for unused data created by WordPress' core features and obsolete plugins. Then, we have to clean the data that is not part of any existing features.

In this recipe, we are going to use the Advanced Database Cleaner plugin to identify the unused data in the database and clean it up manually after proper reviewing.

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