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Fixing Runaway WordPress Action Scheduler: Stop Gigabytes of Log Bloat

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If your WordPress site suddenly starts dragging, your database balloons in size, or your host sends you a warning about excessive queries, there’s a good chance the culprit is hiding in plain sight: Action Scheduler.

This background task runner powers WooCommerce, subscription plugins, backups, and countless other tools. When it behaves, it’s invisible. When it breaks, it can hammer your database every few seconds and generate gigabytes of log entries before you even know what happened.

That’s exactly what happened to one of my sites — and here’s how I fixed it.

 

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WordPress Fatal Error Gravity Forms with User Registration Add-On

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There was a minor update ( I am talking 2.10.0 to 2.10.1 ) for Gravity Forms which included a ‘security enhancement‘ which I implemented.

Upon doing so my WordPress based membership site, which was using the Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On completely crashed with a Fatal Error and Your Site is Experiencing a Technical Issue notice.

No big deal I thought, I would just restore the backup from the day prior. Same result, so I continued restoring older daily backups without success. Now what!?

This article covers how I was able to resolve that Fatal Error but is intended for my personal use only in order to help me jog my memory should this issue occur in the future. So I won’t be going into great detail.

 

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Hide Product Pricing for Logged-Out Users in WooCommerce

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Running a WooCommerce store often means tailoring the shopping experience to different types of users.

One common customization is hiding product prices from visitors who aren’t logged in.

Whether you’re running a wholesale store, a members-only shop, or simply want to encourage account creation, this tweak can be incredibly useful.

In this post, we’ll show you how to hide product pricing for logged-out users using a simple code snippet—no plugins required.

 

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How to Resize Images Uploaded to Gravity Forms

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Gravity Forms is a powerhouse plugin for building advanced forms in WordPress. One of its standout features is file uploads—including images.

But what happens when users upload massive, high-resolution images that bog down your server or slow down your site?

Good news: you can automatically resize uploaded images using a simple PHP snippet. In this post, we’ll walk you through how to implement it and tailor it to your specific form setup.

 

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Disable PDF Preview in WordPress Media Gallery

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If you’ve ever uploaded a PDF to your WordPress site and noticed that WordPress automatically generates a preview image, you’re not alone. Since WordPress 4.7, this feature has been enabled by default.

While it’s helpful for some, others may find it unnecessary or even problematic—especially if you’re managing a large media library or want to conserve server resources.

In this post, we’ll walk you through why you might want to disable PDF previews and how to disable the previews safely and effectively.

 

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Hide WordPress Admin Panel Help Tab

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The WordPress admin panel is packed with useful features, but sometimes less is more—especially when you’re customizing the backend for clients or streamlining the interface for your team.

One often-overlooked element is the Help tab that appears in the top-right corner of many admin screens.

If you’re looking to clean up the interface or prevent users from accessing help content, here’s how to hide the Help tab with just a few lines of code.

 

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Disable Gravity Forms Autofill link, Save with link

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Recently my Stripe Pricing Fields within Gravity Forms obtained new features.

Namely an Autofill link and a Save with link option, each of which I did not want and has caused confusion and even raised alarm bells among my clients.

Rather than ask for permission Stripe opted to ask for forgiveness by enabling their new Link payments feature automagically.

This article will take you through the steps to disable this new Autofill link and Save with link options from any forms created within Gravity Forms.

Disable Gravity Forms Autofill link, Save with link

 

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Disable Subscriber WordPress Admin Bar

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In this article I will show you how to quickly and easily add a script to your child theme functions.php file which will block access to the WP Admin bar and backend for anyone with the Subscriber role.

 

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Hide GravityKit WordPress Admin Backend Menu

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To hide the GravityKit menu link from the WordPress Admin Backend menu without having to mess with the GravityView Access Capabilities, you can use the filter provided below. Note this will hide the GravityKit menu for all users except administrators:

if( ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) )
{
  add_filter( 'gk/foundation/admin-menu/submenus', function ()
  {
    return [];
  }, 100 );
}

To hide the menu for everyone, including yourself (administrators) use the code below:

add_filter( 'gk/foundation/admin-menu/submenus', function ()
{
  return [];
}, 100 );

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Migrating Site to GoDaddy Basic Managed WordPress

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Recently was not able to convince a client of the benefits of having me professionally manage, host and maintain their website for them. They wanted to save money and use GoDaddy’s Basic Managed WordPress service. So I had to migrate their completed demo over to it but ran into countless errors with GoDaddy’s hosting platform.

The GoDaddy migration tool was useless as was GoDaddy support. GoDaddy support insisted that I upgrade the server in order to complete the migration. But I only had delegated access to the clients account with no ability to purchase said upgrade because the client did not grant me those permissions.

Long story short, I was able to manually migrate their site over, even though we were on the Basic Managed WordPress server using the steps enumerated in this article.

This article is only for my personal use, to help jog my memory if another client want to migrate their site to a more affordable solution. Please do not use this article for migrating any of your or client sites. If you do, you take full responsibility for anything that goes wrong, or right for that matter.

 

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