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When you use an SaaS service or a classic host to manage your WordPress servers and sites, you have a single deployment scenario for your WP Control Panel – theirs. And in most cases that works just fine. But sometimes you need some flexibility. Or some peace of mind with redundancy. Or you have unique privacy and regulatory requirements. This…
Read MoreIf you’re running a WordPress focused agency that manages more than a dozen servers and/or more than 25 sites, you know that you have a different set of organization and customer management issues than someone who’s running just two or three servers or a few sites. To help with these organization and customer management issues we’ve built in a group…
Read MoreNGINX has a nasty little quirk with its add_header directive that can easily bite you in a$$ if you’re not careful. Put simply, if you use even a single add_header directive in a location block, it will remove all add_header directives from higher in the tree. Practically speaking, you could run into a situation as follows: You have a series…
Read MoreRecently we were contacted by a prospect who wanted to know if they could use our product to build a service similar to Cloudways. We took that as challenge – how long would it take us to set up a full site that could do something similar to Cloudways – with the limitation that it would just be for WordPress…
Read MoreRecently we came across a question on a WordPress related Facebook group about WordPress emails. The way the question was posed made us realize that many users might not really understand how WordPress emails work. In particular the individual posting the question thought that there was a central control area for WordPress emails. And they were looking to exert some…
Read MoreSo, you’ve provisioned a server but your host didn’t install an ssh key-pair for you. Which likely means that you’re just logging in with a password. But, you do have an ssh key-pair already and instead of generating another one unique to your server, you would like to use the existing one. The easiest way to do this is as…
Read MoreSo, you’ve lost your public key but still have your private key. Or, maybe, you’ve downloaded the private key portion of the SSH key-pair that AWS (Amazon Web Services) generated and now you need the public portion (because AWS doesn’t give that to you for some reason). It’s actually quite easy to get the public key out of the private…
Read MoreAfter you deploy a server using WPCloudDeploy you have multiple options to help protect it and keep it running properly. 1. Turn On Malware Scanning & Detection Before you do anything with your new server, you probably want to check the reputation of the IP address it was assigned. Many IP addresses can be placed on “blacklists” for activity that…
Read MoreWPCloudDeploy uses the Cache-Enabler plugin as part of its caching stack. But recent updates to it seems to have broken the Beaver Builder page builder (and likely some other plugins as well).
There are two symptoms of this conflict…
Read MoreNote: This article covers building WaaS projects using WP Multisite and WPUltimo. However, you now have other options such as OpenSaaS.io. So if you’re looking for alternatives to using WP Multisite, check that out. “WordPress as a Service” is something that developers have been doing for a number of years. But it’s only in the last couple of years that…
Read MoreNote: This article was written based on WPUltimo version 1.x. Since then WPUltimo 2.x has been released. Hence, some of the items mentioned in here might be out of date or simply not apply at all. WPUltimo is the only plugin of it’s kind. But, unfortunately, its hooks and filters are very poorly documented . Since we’ve been using it…
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