WP-CLI is adding more useful functionality every day to help sysadmins and hosts make WordPress management a breeze. I have found myself having to update WP-CLI manually over SSH for all of my sites which is pretty monotonous. This tutorial will show you how to autoupdate WP-CLI and its packages with a Linux cronjob on … Learn more…
Two of my favorite WP-CLI commands are awesome profile and doctor (see my profile tutorial) which help WordPress site administrators keep site secure, clean and fast! The WordPress database has a table called wp_options which is used to store core, theme and plugin settings. Some of these settings are very essential to each component and must … Learn more…
If you have ever lost your WordPress widgets after changing or updating your theme, this guide will help you solve that problem for the future! I will show you how to back up the WordPress widgets (header, footer, sidebar, inactive and active) with WP-CLI so you can easily restore your widgets at any time. This … Learn more…
Varnish is one of my favorite ways to speed up and scale WordPress. Some hosts like Cloudways and WPEngine have Varnish configured on the server to help deliver fast pages to your users. If you want to install Varnish on your own Vultr server this guide is for you. The Varnish packages have been moved … Learn more…
For privacy and vanity reasons you can add custom DNS nameservers using Cloudflare. This tutorial will show you how to add the custom nameservers to Cloudflare and how to get the IP addresses of these new nameservers so you can add them as glue records to your DNS registrar (where you purchased the domain). If … Learn more…