Author: Luke Cavanagh

When creating a new installation WordPress site using the WP Toolkit in cPanel or Plesk, the PHP memory will be 32MB by default. WordPress's default recommended PHP memory limit should be at least 128MB. If your active plugins need more PHP memory, then the other recommended PHP memory change would be 256MB or 521MB and increase to those higher PHP memory levels. 

What is the WP Toolkit?

The WP Toolkit is a set of solid features that can be used directly from your site's cPanel or Plesk control panel for your WordPress site. The WP Toolkit includes many valuable features, making updating plugins, themes, and WordPress core easily secures your WordPress website. You can also run a security scan on your site, and plugin vulnerabilities can be easily found. 

Discourse is open source software for community discussion. An example would be if you wanted to add a place for community discussion for a company. Many well-known companies use Discourse for their community, such as Atlassian, Figma, Asana, New Relic, and Cloudflare.

Whether you are using Managed Hosting products or Managed Application platforms, now may be an optimal time to look into switching your email provider to a different service.

Having access to an easy-to-use control panel is important to troubleshoot or repair your site easily. Without a control panel or user interface (UI), it can be more complex to run the day-to-day tasks. With loads of useful features in cPanel, users run everyday necessary functions from the menu in the control panel.

What is GitHub?

GitHub is a commonly used software development platform for storing and maintaining software. It hosts over 200 million repositories from 3 million organizations like Airbnb, Netflix, Instacart, and Lyft. But when Microsoft acquiring GitHub in 2018, some wondered if there were any other options out there. In this article, we will tell you about the top 5 alternatives available to GitHub.

WordPress has a great GUI-based installation process however some use cases call for CLI! Or, maybe you just feel more at home in a terminal, either way this article will show you how to get your WordPress site setup with just a terminal, using WP-CLI, and maybe a sprinkle of SSH.

What is Discourse?

Discourse is modern forum software that can be easily installed on your Ubuntu-based Liquid Web VPS or Dedicated server to create a vibrant community-driven discussion board. Some of the more popular companies using Discourse to power their communities are New Relic, Cloudflare, and Docker.

There will be many times when you will need to optimize all images in a site media library. If you are familiar with using WP-CLI, then there is a very handy package which can be installed. The package is called “image-optimize” and it will simplify the process of getting your images ready for web hosting.

There may be times when you need to clean up post revisions created on your site. This is possible, using the commands already available in WP-CLI.