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 the most optimization version. Jetpack plugin has a similar feature called Site Accelerator which utilizes WordPress.com’s CDN. What if you want options to do…
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 fork something one of the following will happen: I’m not concerned in the least about folks forking WordPress. In fact WordPress is long overdue…
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 scaled images help keep users from accidentally linking to truly massive original sized images. This past week these scaled images also helped me restore…
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. If the amount of data being autoloaded becomes excessive – for example more than 10MB – it can cause all sorts of performance…
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 real email account can greatly improve odds that your email will hit your customer’s inbox. However, no matter how good your setup is, all…
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 take a hint and find a new web host. Did I mention I offer free malware cleanups with web hosting? Well I do 😀.…
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: Any hosting provider with a powerful API is an open invitation for amazing products to be built on top. Recently I used the Kinsta API to…
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…
