Create a file in the WP root directory called force-minor-update.php and call it via your web browser.

Use this code:

require( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

//Clear transients
global $wpdb;
$sql = "DELETE FROM $wpdb->options WHERE option_name LIKE '_transient_%'";
$clean = $wpdb->query( $sql );

//Clear object cache
wp_cache_flush();

//Attempt auto update
wp_maybe_auto_update();

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Yoast SEO has an obnoxious habit of taking over your admin interface, so it looks something like this:

Notice how much space Yoast takes up. Unless you are hardcore about your SEO, you really don’t want all that screen estate being wasted.

With just a few lines of code inside your themes functions.php file you can go from that crowded mess to this:

Here’s the snippet you need:

//Remove "page analysis" and annoying SEO columns
add_filter( 'wpseo_use_page_analysis', '__return_false' );

//Make sure the SEO box is at the very bottom of the post edit screen
add_filter( 'wpseo_metabox_prio', 'custom_metabox_prio');
function custom_metabox_prio($in)
{
    return 'low';
};

//Remove SEO menu from Admin bar
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'custom_admin_bar_render' );
function custom_admin_bar_render()
{
    global $wp_admin_bar;
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('wpseo-menu');
}

//Remove "Has been updated" notification and tour bubble.
add_action( 'get_user_metadata', 'custom_get_user_metadata', 10, 4 );
function custom_get_user_metadata($value, $object_id, $meta_key, $single) {
  if($meta_key === 'wpseo_ignore_tour') {
    return true;
  }

  if($meta_key === 'wpseo_seen_about_version') {
    return defined('WPSEO_VERSION') ? WPSEO_VERSION : null;
  }

  return $value;
}

You can still change the per-page SEO settings, it just won’t clutter your admin.

It is also possible to remove the SEO box from the post edit screen by going up to Screen Options (top right) and uncheck the “WordPress SEO by Yoast” box.

This post was inspired by the following snippet by Jonathan Warren.

I like developing with errors enabled. Unfortunately the team who makes NS Cloner does not, which results in tons of errors when using NS Cloner pro. These are mostly trivial errors like uninitialized variables and deprecation warnings. Regardless, they make the plugin unusable for me.

Here is a quick plugin that disables PHP errors altogether when you’re in the NS Cloner Pro tab. Save this snippet as: /wp-content/mu-plugins/ns-cloner-fix.php

(If you don’t have an mu-plugins directory, create it)

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: NS Cloner error fix
Plugin URI:
Description: Disables error reporting while we're on the NS Cloner tab
Version: 2014.04.01
Author: khromov
Author URI: http://profiles.wordpress.org/khromov/
License: GPL2
*/

add_action('muplugins_loaded', function()
{
    if(get_current_blog_id() === 1)
    {
        $siteurl = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
        if(strpos($siteurl, '/wp-admin/network/sites.php?page=ns-cloner-pro') !== false)
            error_reporting(0);
    }
});