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…
WordCamp US returns to the east coast at the end of August. That’s only 3 months away! This is the big yearly WordPress community conference open to everyone. It’s the one conference I’ve regularly attended since 2015. A huge value in both personal and professional connections. Considering there wasn’t a WordCamp US in 2020…
I recently converted my paid WordPress plugin WP Freighter into a free plugin. Have I mentioned before that I really dislike license keys? As a free plugin, there is no more need for license keys or Easy Digital Downloads. This greatly simplifies the plugin. Without EDD one thing I needed to figure out is…
Recently I had a customer ask for a two-factor authentication option for Anchor Hosting. That’s now been added and is ready to use. Customers can sign into the Anchor Hosting portal and activate 2FA from their profile page as shown here. Building 2FA using PHP and Javascript. If you’re a developer or just curious…
If your WordPress website has crashed recently due to the recent PHP 8 update then consider reaching out to Anchor Hosting. Included with every hosting plan is a free site migration. As part of migrating over your website, we’ll also be sure to update all themes and plugins and make sure it’s working with…