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How to Find and Remove Orphaned Database Tables in WordPress (Safely)

Uninstalling a plugin doesn't always remove its database tables. Over years, those leftovers pile up. Cleaning them out is worthwhile — but it's the kind of task where one wrong `DROP` ruins your day, so the method matters more than the speed.

How to Select a WordPress Theme Without Regretting It Later

The theme demo looks incredible. Then you install it, import the dummy content, and your "blazing-fast" site loads like treacle. Choosing a theme well is mostly about ignoring the demo and reading the code.

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Many-to-One: Why a Mapping Backlog Outgrows Its Target Taxonomy

You're mapping a messy source vocabulary onto a clean target taxonomy. The target has about 5,600 slots, so the job must be roughly 5,600 decisions — right? The backlog is already past 8,900, and still climbing.

The Fix That Didn’t Take: When a Content-Hash Gate Skips Your Code Change

You shipped a fix to how one field is computed, re-ran the pipeline across everything, and it reported a clean run. Then the consistency check still flags those records as wrong. The fix is in the code, the rebuild "ran" — and the records never changed. Your own optimisation skipped them.

Your Dedup Scan Is Over-Counting — Because It Forgot What You Already Fixed

The report said 80 duplicate groups still to resolve. You'd been resolving them for days. You run it again after a big batch and it *still* says 80-ish. The backlog isn't stubborn — the scan is counting work you already finished.

When Your Skills Folder Is a Deploy Target, Not a Drawer

You hardened a skill in the repo, shipped the PR, and the agent kept loading the old one. Or you fixed the live skill by hand, and the versioned copy quietly stayed behind. Same root cause: the copy you run and the copy you version are two different files.

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