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Admin Tools also offers you several tools

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that will help you in maintaining 
your web site.

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You can find most of them here 
in the Tools section.

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Here we can perform the task manually 

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but it is much more useful to let admintools

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 do this for you automatically

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on a regular basis

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and we can do this from the 
Site Maintenance link.

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When you select this it will open a new

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 window to the Admin tools plugin. 

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Here you will see the various options

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that you can set.

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The first option - Rescue URL 

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is covered in the Unblocking yourself video

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As you can see by hovering 

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 over the description we get further 

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information about the individual tool.

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For example, 

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the Enable Session Optimiser

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 ensures that the session tables

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 will be periodically optimised.

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To enable that simply select

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 from No to Yes 

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and you can set how often this is to be performed.


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 In this case the default setting,

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 the recommended setting, is 60 minutes. 

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I suggest that you also enable 

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the Session Cleaner, the Cache Cleaner

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 and the cache autoexpiration.

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In addition, you may choose to select the 

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Temporary directory cleaner.

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When you install a new extension sometimes 

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parts are left behind in the temporary directory

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 so it's useful to ensure that this is set

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 to be cleaned as well.

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The next option is to delete inactive users.

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By default, the user is set never

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 to be deleted but you could choose

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 to delete them if they haven't activated 

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their accounts, if they activated

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 it but never logged in

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or whether its activated or not as 

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long as they haven't logged in.

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On many web sites I find that people

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 register but never activate their account,

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in which case I can select this option

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 and then after 7 days those 
user accounts will be deleted.

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The final option that can be performed

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 is to truncate the security exception log entries.

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I recommend that you probably leave this set 

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to zero which means that it is disabled.

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However if your security exceptions

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 log becomes too big 

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you can choose to reduce this by 

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setting a value here to 

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ensure that only that number 
of entries are kept.

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If I set it to 100 for example 

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then only the last 100 exceptions

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 are stored in the logs.

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When you have set and configured all the

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 options as you wish to have them 

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and ensured that the status of the plugin 

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is enabled, click Save & Close 

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and then close this browser tab.

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 Those tasks will now be performed

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 on a regular basis.