Howdy there! Shredder here. It’s super-exciting to announce that I’ll speaking at DreamCon! I’ll be giving a general WordPress introduction, and also walking y’all through the wonders of wp-cli. wp-cli is a great command line tool that lets power users manage WordPress with ease. It uses WordPress itself to perform its functions, which means that [...]
Like the other countless users who’ve downloaded the W3 Total Cache plugin, or manually set expires headers, I want my sites to be fast. Requests should be served from cache whenever possible. But what happens when you want to update a stylesheet in production? How can you tell your site to serve the latest version? [...]
Recently someone turned on a big bad botnet and has been attempting to bruteforce the admin accounts for WordPress installs across the internet. This event is yet another reminder that passwords are passé and can be a weak point in many systems worldwide. Here are a few things you can do to help protect yourself from this kind of attack: [...]
If youʼve had a wild and woolly WordPress problem at DreamHost in the last 8 months, Iʼve probably handled your support ticket. Iʼm the new WordPress Support / Community Specialist and Manager, which is a fancy way to say that if weʼre messing around with WordPress, Iʼm involved. I work closely with Dreamhost developers on all [...]
One of the best things about Dreamhost’s VPS offering is the wide range of configuration options it allows. Yet a lot of our VPS customers aren’t really “power-user” tech types and simply want their sites, –predominantly WordPress installs– to run as fast as possible. But having available memory won’t necessarily make your website any faster; [...]
WordPress plugins are like rabbits; they keep multiplying. There are over 23,000 WordPress plugins, which can make finding the right one for your business like finding a needle in a haystack. Or, maybe more like finding a single piece of hay in a haystack. To help you sift through them, we’ve organized a list of [...]
A DreamHost Disclaimer: Picking the right plugins for your site isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do. The arguments here at DreamHost over which plugin is best to use can be fiercer than our foosball competitions, faster than a ping pong match, and louder than– well, you get the idea. The mess starts [...]