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  • 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…

  • Fixing TGM Plugin Activation for WordPress Updates

    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…

  • Restoring WordPress Navigation from a Database Backup

    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…

  • WordPress Maintenance Should Be FREE

    Thoughts

    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,…

  • Hidden WordPress Plugins Running In the Background

    When looking at the WordPress plugin page /wp-admin/plugins.php 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…

  • The Best and Worst Kinsta Features of 2023

    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…

  • Longterm Server Logs With Kinsta

    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…