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Notes from the engine room.
Practical WordPress performance, security post-mortems, and the occasional look inside our Falkenberg datacenter. Written by the engineers who answer your tickets.
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The most important WP-CLI commands: a cheat sheet
An annotated cheat sheet of the WP-CLI commands you’ll use over and over, from core updates to resetting an admin password.
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Why you need a WordPress support partner, not just a plugin
A plugin can send an email. It can’t clean your site at 2am on a Sunday. That’s why a support partner is the layer…
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Update your theme with WP-CLI
Theme updates are as quick as plugin updates with WP-CLI, but there’s a trap: custom edits to the theme. Here’s how to update without…
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Page builders, bloated themes and the attack surface: what you trade
Page builders make it easy to build pages, and easy to bloat the code, slow the site and grow the attack surface. Here’s the…
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Update plugins with WP-CLI
Clicking through plugin updates in wp-admin is slow and risky. With WP-CLI you update everything in seconds, and you can script it.
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Why a custom theme is safer than a bought one
A bought theme tries to fit everyone, dragging along code, plugins and vulnerabilities you never need. A custom theme carries only what your site…
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SSH into your server and run search-replace from the CLI
A database-wide find and replace is dangerous in phpMyAdmin but trivial with WP-CLI. Here’s how to SSH in and swap URLs without breaking serialized…
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Terminal basics: getting around with cd and ls
Before WP-CLI and SSH comes the most basic skill: moving around the terminal. Here are cd, ls and pwd: everything you need to find…