The default WordPress search uses MySQL which is not search-optimized and can be slow. Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database which uses a lucene structure. The goal of Elasticsearch is to provide search results in real time. ElasticPress is the plugin that integrates WordPress with ElasticSearch to make WordPress searching fast and awesome. It extends WordPress … Learn more…
Mailgun is an awesome free service for sending email safely from your WordPress server. They have a WordPress plugin that uses the Mailgun HTTP API so you can conceal your web server’s IP address – you should never host email on your web server for security reasons like spam, exploitation and risk your server IPs … Learn more…
Whitelisting your IP address for login pages on WordPress, WooCommerce or any CMS is one of the best security methods for protection from hackers. Most ISPs use dynamic IP addressing which means your IP address will change from time to time. This poses a convenience problem since you will be denied access to site served by nginx if … Learn more…
Memcached is a high speed caching system for storing objects in RAM. It works well with WordPress and WooCommerce as an object cache for storing transients so they are not stored in the MySQL database. On WooCommerce particularly object caching can help considerably because of the number of transients used by plugins and orders. Unix sockets … Learn more…
WPScan is a WordPress vulnerability scanner written in Ruby. Sucuri sponsored WPScan which hosted on github. With its security vulnerability database for WordPress core, plugins and themes hackers can get a report on your site’s known security problems which can be exploited. You can install WPScan yourself on Debian 8 (guide) or Ubuntu 16.04 (guide). WPScan provides multiple ways … Learn more…