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Comment on Automatically clean Action Scheduler database tables and improve your WordPress website by John Sundberg

John Sundberg — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:55:19 +0000

In reply to Generosus.

Glad to hear it’s working for you; that’s a significant database size reduction!

I’m not sure what you mean by “What would be the “Hook” name and “Recurrence” period I should be looking for?”

Comment on Automatically clean Action Scheduler database tables and improve your WordPress website by Generosus

Generosus — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 13:27:11 +0000

In reply to John Sundberg.

Thank you, John. What would be the “Hook” name and “Recurrence” period I should be looking for?

Side Note: Your amazing code snippet is definitely working. Once it triggered, our database size dropped by almost 50 percent!

Cheers!

Comment on Automatically clean Action Scheduler database tables and improve your WordPress website by John Sundberg

John Sundberg — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:15:07 +0000

In reply to Generosus.

You’re welcome!

You should be able to tell if it’s working by checking your Scheduled Actions under Tools in the WP Admin menu.

I would have had the page open before adding the code, then open that page in a new browser tab and compare the results, and then reload that new tab a few more times until the number of scheduled actions stabilizes.

Comment on Automatically clean Action Scheduler database tables and improve your WordPress website by Generosus

Generosus — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:46:46 +0000

Great code. Thank you. Using it now.

Only one question: How do we know it’s working? 🙂

Our site’s database size did not go down.

Cheers!

Comment on Automatically clean Action Scheduler database tables and improve your WordPress website by John Sundberg

John Sundberg — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:58:51 +0000

In reply to kamil. You certainly could use wp_cron like you suggest, and that may have crossed my mind when I was working up this code, but hooking it to wp_loaded is simpler and more dependable. Running the code once a week may not be often enough for plugins like MailPoet, which adds approximately 1,000 completed actions to the database every day. If you were only running it once each week you'd need to increase the batch size to somewhere in the thousands, and then you're running the risk of the server running out of memory and the clean-up process not completing.

Comment on Automatically clean Action Scheduler database tables and improve your WordPress website by kamil

kamil — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:23:28 +0000

Thanks for code and explanation, but what’s the purpose of running it on every page load? Scheduling a cron job to do it once a week should be more than enough

Comment on MailPoet responsive newsletter template quick fix by Margaret B

Margaret B — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 21:05:17 +0000

Now that it is January 2017, MailPoet 3 Beta is out. The display is better in my Android as it fits the width fine in both portrait and landscape orientations. I am using 16 px font size for the text, and it is easy to read in my phone. However, I still cannot enlarge or shrink the size as I read it. I therefore would qualify their claim of “responsive templates.” Also, in my wide-screen laptop, the newsletter takes up only half the width of the screen, though it is nicely centered. And if I make my window too small, I have to scroll horizontally.

So I will soon try out your fix (after I learn the right way to build a custom core functionality plugin, which I need to know sooner or later anyway).

Thanks so much!

Comment on How to add a mobile responsive menu to your Genesis WordPress website by John Sundberg

John Sundberg — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:02:06 +0000

In reply to Caroline Janice.

Hi Caroline,

To have a mobile responsive menu, you can either follow the steps in this article or install a new theme. New StudioPress themes, for example, all have responsive menus “built-in.”

John

Comment on How to add a mobile responsive menu to your Genesis WordPress website by Caroline Janice

Caroline Janice — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:46:35 +0000

I need help..Because im new in WP,. can you please check my website healthcertified2k.com, . when i view my website in mobile,. my menu is not responsive,. i want to have a Drop menu when i view in mobile..Please help me..Thank you and Advance..

Comment on Force browser cache to reload CSS: Genesis, WordPress, W3 Total Cache by John Sundberg

John Sundberg — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:14:45 +0000

In reply to Karl.

Good question, Karl. I don’t think I have used that setting.

However, I don’t think it would apply to the context of this article, since the CSS edits I make are in the style.css file, or other similar files, with a text editor and then uploaded via FTP. W3TC would not recognize those as settings changes, as far as I know, since they happen independent of the WordPress admin/dashboard.

John