Tarnish cleaner

When it comes to improving the performance of our WordPress site, we focus mostly on using fewer plugins, using a CDN, a cache plugin & faster web hosting. However, there is another important aspect of improving your WordPress blog performance: Cleaning your WordPress database. A new WordPress blog (2-3 months old) can take advantage of free database optimization plugins like the WP-Optimize or the WP-DBManager plugin. However, for a blog which has been online for more than three months & has installed and uninstalled numerous plugins, a simple database optimization is not enough. As a part of our day to day blogging activities, we try out many plugins. However, uninstalling plugins doesn’t remove all of the tables from our WordPress database, and over time our WordPress database gets filled with many unused tables. These unused tables are known as orphan tables. They greatly slow down the performance of our WordPress blog. The solution is to find and delete those … [Read more...] about How To Improve WordPress Performance With Advanced Database Cleaner Plugin

Play Path of Exile for freeLook, we don’t mean to shock anyone, but Path of Exile needs to make money, and it does so via its cash shop. That’s the way its business model works. However, that business model does require you to have the most accessible cash shop possible to ensure that people can buy what you’re offering. So it’s probably a good thing that the game’s newest patch will add much-desired filter options to the cash shop, along with a cleaner and more central user interface. The patch also adds in 3D models for two remaining Bestiary armor sets, along with a variety of other bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. It’s not a huge set of content changes, but it should make the game a bit more pleasant… and it should make it a bit cleaner to spend money in the game, which allows the team to provide more content in the future. So that’s all right. Source: Official SiteSHARE THIS ARTICLE … [Read more...] about Path of Exile revamps its store interface for cleaner navigation

Yesterday was a bit of a trying day for me personally.   I’ve personally been bought into this notion that Mastodon provided a kinder gentler alternative to Twitter, but yesterday largely proved that notion completely wrong.  The Fediverse has been the welcome home of the disenfranchised and marginalized, which is awesome since Twitter has not done a great job of protecting that group in any way.  However some events happened recently and because of them I am glad that I joined up several weeks ago rather than right now at this time.  I was able to see what I thought was the ActivityPub community in its native state, talking about interesting things openly and publicly and willing to friend each other just as easily.  I was able to get settled in quickly with the help of a whole slew of people who offered useful advice as I docked myself into a corner of this big maelstrom of interesting things. I started out on Mastodon.cloud which was a large … [Read more...] about Tarnished Hope

Yes? Well, then why don’t you do the same for your content management system? If you think this analogy is strange, think again, WordPress, like any other content management system, is majorly engaged in the work of saving, managing and retrieving media, querying databases for files, and serving them on web pages. And so, WordPress optimization is an essential task for any publisher. Why clean up? As such, redundancy can and does creep into the system once you’ve changed a few themes, installed and deleted multiple plugins, and uploaded hundreds of media files. Your site will still work, obviously, but it is bogged down by the deadweight of extra files. Here’s how you can refresh your system and make life easier for your content management system, reducing server load and possibly increasing page load times in the process. First, take a backup I’m guessing if you’re considering cleaning your WordPress installation, you probably have a lot of posts and … [Read more...] about Guide to WordPress Optimization & Cleanup

Google Chrome turned out to be one of the best browsers in short span of time. I’m not sure how many of you are a fan of chrome browser, but from a user perspective I love chrome. We have already shared some productive chrome extensions earlier to do more in less time and today we are going to extend our series by sharing more useful chrome extensions which you can consider installing. Chrome extension store is full of useful extensions and here at SML, we have covered many such extensions in the past. In case, if you have missed it, I will hand-pick some of the post which any Google chrome lover like you and me would consider installing. Though, before you install tons of chrome add-ons on your blog, make sure you limit it to a certain number. Reason being, too many extensions will slow down your browser and especially you will face issues with browser crashing. So here are some posts, which I would suggest you to have a peek: I have explained every extension I mentioned here … [Read more...] about Productive Chrome Extensions for Every Chrome Lover