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…
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…