WordPress and PHP Workers

This article describes how WordPress, WooCommerce and other plugins use PHP Workers. PHP Workers is a concept in php-fpm that allows the web server to control how much resources can be spent at any given time, to process PHP requests. WordPress and WooCommerce process PHP requests at least once for […]

WordPress Plugins that Break Caching

Plugins that prevent caching limit the performance of your website, and reduce the scalability. It is also usually unnecessary, as there are techniques that can be applied to provide the same functionality, without preventing your pages from being cached. This article provides an overview of plugins in the WordPress repository […]

Lock down xmlrpc.php in WordPress

This article explains how you can lock down xmlrpc.php using .htaccess. However, it might be a better option to protect the xmlrpc-php endpoint instead, filtering out the unwanted traffic. The WordPress xmlrpc.php endpoint can be misused as en endpoint for brute force attacks.  If you do not use xmlrpc.php for […]

How to use Servebolt Optimizer for WordPress

Our plugin, Servebolt Optimizer, enables you to: WordPress backend Servebolt Optimizer is configurable either through WordPress Admin or through WP-CLI, which is covered beneath. Performance Optimizer Allows you to optimize your database and set the right table indexes. Optimizing will add any missing indexes and convert all tables to use modern […]

Helpful WP-CLI commands

WP-CLI is a great tool and we use it every day ourselves for managing WordPress. In this article we have listed helpful commands we use regularly. To begin using WP-CLI commands you need to be logged in to your site using SSH. To use SSH you need an SSH Terminal. […]

How to backup your WordPress site

We include a daily and a nightly backup of all files and databases for our clients. These backups are performed nightly and can be restored through our support, as described here: How do backups work at Servebolt. It’s also possible to do an instant manual WordPress site-backup. This is recommended […]

How to set up a WordPress staging/dev site

We offer two different ways to create copies of websites which you can use for staging, testing or migrations to other Bolts. The first solution is a custom script available on our Servebolt Bolts, the other is a solution within WordPress itself. Servebolt’s sitecopy script The main advantage of using […]

Update Revolution slider with WP-CLI

The best way to update your URLs on our servers is with WP-CLI’s search-replace function.  But if you have the Revolution Slider plugin activated you might’ve encountered that it breaks after a URL update. This happens because Revslider writes their URLs different than normal in their database tables. Here’s the […]