After years of creating new content, changing themes, and adding and removing plugins, a WordPress installation can become littered with unused, orphaned, and duplicated data. Not every plugin properly extricates itself and its data from your site when you uninstall. Lester Chan‘s new WP Sweep plugin was designed to perform housekeeping on WordPress installations. Chan…
When migrating a WordPress site to a new domain, you’ll have to update every instance of the site’s URL in the database. Some developers prefer to use tools like WP-CLI or WP Migrate DB to handle this, while others opt for a general database search and replace plugin with a UI in the WordPress admin.…
WP-CFM is a new free tool for WordPress created by Matt Gibbs, author of the popular Custom Field Suite plugin. It provides configuration management for WordPress database changes, similar to Drupal’s Features module. WP-CFM lets you create and store bundles, which are essentially a group of one or more configuration options. The first step after…