Block WordPress User Enumeration with nginx Completely

There are several WordPress user enumeration methods that exist for listing information about WordPress users on a site publicly. User enumeration is considered a security vulnerability and can be scanned with several security scanner tools like WP Scan (GitHub). These are the current URL examples for WordPress user enumeration we are currently aware of in … Learn more…

Install PHP 8.1 FPM on Ubuntu 18.04 for WordPress

The PHP 8 benchmarks are looking really sexy! More performance improvements are always welcome over PHP 7.4 🙂 Check out this in-depth list of the new PHP 8 features. Remember to test the new PHP 8.1 in a staging environment for your WordPress or WooCommerce site first, ideally on a separate server. If you need … Learn more…

Separate nginx Mobile and Desktop User-Agent Cache

You may want to separate your server-side nginx cache between mobile and desktop users determined by their browser. This guide will show you how to configure your nginx fastcgi or reverse proxy cache to have separate caches for mobile and desktop user agents. You can make this work for Redis cache integrated with nginx too. … Learn more…

Install PHP 7.4 FPM on Ubuntu 18.04 for WordPress

It is always awesome when new versions of PHP come out so we can test the performance improvements for WordPress and WooCommerce! According to these benchmarks PHP 7.4 took around 500 ms of execution time for the same task that PHP 7.2 took over 650 ms to complete! Remember to test the new PHP 7.4 … Learn more…