Austin Ginder

  • Converting WordPress Uploads to WebP

    There are plenty of options when it comes to optimizing your images. With Kinsta, a single click from their built in CDN and all images will be served out using…

  • It’s Always A Good Time To Fork

    Thoughts

    With the recent WordPress conflict between Automattic and WP Engine, there’s an increased talk about forking WordPress. To that I say, it’s always a good time to fork. Whenever you…

  • Recovering Images from WordPress’ Downscaled Images

    Many years ago WordPress introduce a new method for handling large images. If an image larger then 2560px wide is uploaded then WordPress would generate a scaled down version. These…

  • Checking for Large Autoloaded Data with WP-CLI

    WordPress databases comes with an options table, and entries in this table can be marked for autoload. Autoloading means the row of data will be included with each request to…

  • WordPress Email Health Monitoring

    Keeping emails sending properly from WordPress can be a little tricky. There are things you can do to improve email deliverability. Routing emails through a transaction email service or a…

  • The Invisible Blacklist, Comcast

    When migrating websites to Anchor Hosting it’s somewhat common that I’m also performing malware cleanup. I suppose if your web host doesn’t take responsibly of malware infections then you should…

  • Bulk PHP Upgrades With Kinsta’s API

    One of my most requested features for Kinsta was for them to build an API. Well, they listened and have been regularly rolling out new API endpoints: https://api-docs.kinsta.com. Any hosting…

  • To Offer Web Hosting or Not, That Is The Question

    Thoughts

    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…

  • Extending WP-CLI Plugin Verify Checksums

    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…

  • Extracting Plugin Configurations with WP-CLI

    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…