It’s no secret that here at Anchor Hosting we resell web hosting services. We use other managed WordPress providers like Kinsta and Rocket.net and focus our efforts on making the WordPress experience hassle-free. While there are plenty examples of resellers that offer a poor experience, I’m still optimistic and see reselling web hosting as…
WP-CLI’s plugin verify checksums is an awesome builtin security feature. With a single command wp plugin verify-checksums –all you can make sure all of your WordPress.org plugins are valid and haven’t been tampered with. It’s one of the first commands I’ll reach to when malware is suspected. However many popular plugins are not on…
When managing many WordPress websites for others, a common task is dealing with plugins. Often it’s not enough to be able to bulk install and activate a particular WordPress plugin but also have that plugin preloaded with a certain set of configurations. Today we’ll look at how we can use WP-CLI to extract plugin…
TGM Plugin Activation (TGMPA) is a discontinued PHP library that some WordPress authors use to handle distributing theme-required plugins. TGMPA was last updated in March of 2016, and with that age comes a bit of baggage. The main issue comes with management. They have a separate page to manage and run updates. This is…
Restoring an entire WordPress backup should be a last resort. A selective restore should be the default when something is missing or corrupt. Some things are easy to restore, like a deleted theme or plugin. If you know what you’re looking for, most content can be copied from a single database row found in…
Unpopular opinion: routine WordPress maintenance should be free for everyone. Before I talk about WordPress let’s talk about alternative website solutions, which are not open source. Products like Squarespace, Shopify, Wix, and plenty of others are all propriety website solutions. These closed-sourced solutions have one thing in common: they control everything which, as a…
When looking at the WordPress plugin page you’d assume you’re seeing all of your plugins. Well, that’s not always true. Some active plugins take extra effort to hide themselves from /wp-admin/ and also WP-CLI. Let’s look at a few examples of these sneaky plugins. Detecting hidden plugins over SSH with WP-CLI The following…
This will be a very dated post so I’ll start off by saying today is Tuesday, September 26th, 2023. A year from now my thoughts on Kinsta’s best and worst features will change. That’s because the development team over at Kinsta is amazing and has done a fantastic job building out their platform. For…
Have you ever attempted to review server logs only to find out it was too late? WordPress sites with Kinsta keep the last few days of server logs. That’s great for fixing an immediate issue, however, it’s not a good long-term solution for troubleshooting. There are paid services like Papertrail, which allow for long-term…
Back in 2016 WordPress 4.7 added PDF thumbnail previews, meaning any PDF uploaded to WordPress would generate an image thumbnail. This handy feature improved viewing the image library and was also useful on the front end. I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point, I noticed this feature stopped working for many…