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Adding a WordPress Admin User via SQL

Using MySQL CLI or MySQL Workbench USE yourwpdb; # remember to take into account the custom table prefix if you have one # e.g. 7jhdy66N_ is a custom table prefix and replaces the default wp_ prefix INSERT INTO `7jhdy66N_users` (`user_login`, `user_pass`,...

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Note to self avoid Bittitan

Reasons The knowledgeable original core team isn't there to respond to support requests. When contacting support you get regurgitated AI responses The online help docs used to be good but now aren't explicit about what the product can do causing confusion, or...

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Cannot upload Mac Screenshots to WordPress

Problem I have my Macbook Screenshot App configured to save screenshots to disk. I attempted to upload a saved-to-disk screenshot image to Wordpress and found that Wordpress shows a broken image icon and the Browser returns a 404 when attempting to GET and display the...

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Viewing Microsoft 365 Service Health

Had an issue yesterday where an email send process was failing with an SMTP Error: 421 4.3.2 error: [Cake\Network\Exception\SocketException] SMTP Error: 421 4.3.2 The maximum number of concurrent connections per resource forest has exceeded a limit, closing...

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