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by James McDonald | Aug 28, 2025 | 0 comments

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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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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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