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WordPress Multitenant SaaS: How To Add A WooCommerce Product ID To WP-CONFIG

October 3, 2023

When you’re building a SaaS on WordPress that is not based on WordPress multisite, you typically want to push data into the wp-config.php file of each site. You do this because you would want to access the data in a custom plugin on the tenant site. This plugin allows you to control the user experience and features available in the…

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How To Restrict Plugin Access In A WordPress Multi-tenant SaaS

October 2, 2023

So, you’re building your SaaS on WordPress using all kinds of WordPress tools including a bunch of plugins. For some SaaS projects you don’t need your users to see the plugins menu in wp-admin at all – in which case you can just easily hide the menu option completely (using something such as Menu Editor Pro or other white-label plugins).…

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How To Setup Low Disk Space Alerts For Your Servers

May 17, 2023

If your server runs out of disk space, it can result in, well, lets just say, some very bad stuff. Even though servers and their file systems are very resilient these days and can recover from a lot of things, you really don’t want to take the risk the comes with running out of disk space. The most common issue…

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Managing Linux Updates

April 20, 2023

When you run your own servers one of your most critical responsibilities as the server owner is making sure the software stack is up to date on all security fixes. In WPCloudDeploy you can quickly view the number of pending updates in your server list – you just need to look at the health column (usually the last column in…

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How To Protect Your Checkout Page From Credit Card Testing Fraud (Using CloudFlare)

November 11, 2022

Credit card ‘testing’ fraud has become a major issue for store owners over the last couple of years. Its prevalence is rapidly increasing and it’s getting harder and harder to avoid being a victim. But, if you’re using Cloudflare to protect and proxy your site traffic, you do have some real options to slow down these types of orders, maybe…

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How To Quickly Add Multiple Servers or Sites

November 10, 2022

Have you ever had a situation where you needed to add multiple servers or sites in a short period of time? We have, and we know it’s a pain to manually add them from the ADD screens one at a time. So, with our Power Tools add-on and WPCloudDeploy 5.0, we’ve created a utility that allow you to quickly specify…

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New Help Articles For 2nd & 3rd Quarter 2022

November 8, 2022

Overview We’re constantly tweaking and adding new items to our documentation library. But, unless you’re looking for help with a particular issue it’s easy to miss these updates. In many cases, new documentation items can highlight potentially useful features or increase your skills. Below are all the major additions we’ve made over the last six months or so: 3rd Quarter…

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Front-end Styling Options

November 1, 2022

In WPCD 5.0 we introduced a very robust set of tools for your customers to manage their servers and sites. One of the ‘hidden’ features is that the list of servers and sites are rendered inside of a CSS grid which makes it very very easy to customize to match your vision and your brand. In this article we will…

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Restart All Your WordPress Servers With Just A Few Clicks

August 25, 2022

Every so often, your WordPress servers might need to be restarted. Generally this is a result of Linux updates. When a server needs to be restarted WPCloudDeploy displays a restart notification in the HEALTH column: If you’re an agency that manage many servers, manually restarting each server can quickly become a pain. Restarting just 20 servers individually can easily consume…

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New Help Articles For 1st Quarter 2022

April 7, 2022

Overview Unless you’re looking for help with a particular issue it’s easy to miss documentation updates. In many cases, new documentation items can highlight potentially useful features or increase your skills. So we figured we’d summarize the list of documentation updates we’ve done recently. Below are all the major additions we’ve made over the last three months or so: How…

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That AWS Outage: Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket

December 14, 2021

It seems as if it was only yesterday that the GoDaddy hack was revealed and we had some deep thoughts about that. Now, we’re talking about a major outage at a key infrastructure provider that caused a lot of sites and devices to be unavailable for hours. Imagine for a second that your agency used a hosting service where all…

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