Admin Tools also offers you several tools
that will help you in maintaining your web site.
You can find most of them here in the Tools section.
Here we can perform the task manually
but it is much more useful to let admintools
do this for you automatically
on a regular basis
and we can do this from the Site Maintenance link.
When you select this it will open a new
window to the Admin tools plugin.
Here you will see the various options
that you can set.
The first option - Rescue URL
is covered in the Unblocking yourself video
As you can see by hovering
over the description we get further
information about the individual tool.
For example,
the Enable Session Optimiser
ensures that the session tables
will be periodically optimised.
To enable that simply select
from No to Yes
and you can set how often this is to be performed.
In this case the default setting,
the recommended setting, is 60 minutes.
I suggest that you also enable
the Session Cleaner, the Cache Cleaner
and the cache autoexpiration.
In addition, you may choose to select the
Temporary directory cleaner.
When you install a new extension sometimes
parts are left behind in the temporary directory
so it's useful to ensure that this is set
to be cleaned as well.
The next option is to delete inactive users.
By default, the user is set never
to be deleted but you could choose
to delete them if they haven't activated
their accounts, if they activated
it but never logged in
or whether its activated or not as
long as they haven't logged in.
On many web sites I find that people
register but never activate their account,
in which case I can select this option
and then after 7 days those user accounts will be deleted.
The final option that can be performed
is to truncate the security exception log entries.
I recommend that you probably leave this set
to zero which means that it is disabled.
However if your security exceptions
log becomes too big
you can choose to reduce this by
setting a value here to
ensure that only that number of entries are kept.
If I set it to 100 for example
then only the last 100 exceptions
are stored in the logs.
When you have set and configured all the
options as you wish to have them
and ensured that the status of the plugin
is enabled, click Save & Close
and then close this browser tab.
Those tasks will now be performed
on a regular basis.