The Settings page for Managed WordPress Portal gives you access to change your profile and billing information, changing the timezone for your dashboard, and the ability to view your passphrase for authenticating your account when contacting our Heroic support team. Continue reading “Navigating Your Settings Page in Managed WordPress Portal”
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Using Bulk Optimization in Managed WordPress Portal
One of the biggest reasons for poor web page performance, are images being added to sites that are far larger than needed. Managed WordPress Portal partnered with TinyPNG to provide a solution for site slowness due to over-sized photos. The Compress JPEG & PNG images plugin from TinyPNG is included in your hosting package, free of charge. This plugin allows you to be proactive and solve the technical burden of getting your site to load up quickly.
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Using Cloudflare with Your Managed WordPress Portal
If you have enabled Cloudflare for a site in your Managed WordPress Portal, you may run into an issue where you are unable to update the domain name. When you attempt to change the domain name to the one you want visible to the customer, an error message will show in your site dashboard. Continue reading “Using Cloudflare with Your Managed WordPress Portal”
Using the Visual Comparison Tool in Managed WordPress Portal
Managed WordPress Portal provides you an easy way to view the visual changes to your website when you update plugins. With the Visual Comparison Tool, your Managed WordPress Portal will create a staging site, update your plugins and give you the ability to see what changes (if any) the plugin update made to your site before it goes live. If there are no visual changes to the site, your plugins will automatically update on the live site. Continue reading “Using the Visual Comparison Tool in Managed WordPress Portal”
Adding and Deleting Users in Managed WordPress Portal
Just as in your WordPress site and your Liquid Web account, you can create users in the Managed WordPress Portal to help you manage all your sites. This person can do most of the same functions as you. They can organize the sites in your portal by tagging and labeling, create stencils of your sites and look at the visual comparison tool and push updates. The only thing a user cannot do is create new users. Continue reading “Adding and Deleting Users in Managed WordPress Portal”
Organizing Your Sites in Managed WordPress Portal
Managed WordPress Portal offers you the ability to organize your sites and find them quickly, create custom tags and disable Varnish caching all from your portal. Let’s take a look at the options you have to organize your sites your way, giving you the flexibility and customization you need to manage your sites efficiently. From your Managed WordPress Portal, you can:
- Create Custom site names
- Create Custom Tags
- Use a List or grid view of each site
- Enable and disable Varnish caching
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Upgrading to PHP 7 in Managed WordPress Portal
PHP 7 is the newest release of PHP, replacing PHP 5.6 and lower. It was released in December 2015 and as of January 2017 PHP 5.6 is End of Life. This means that PHP 5.6 is only being supported for security issues, no other support will be given. With this in mind, Managed WordPress Portal gives you an easy upgrade tool so that you can update your sites to PHP 7. The upgrade tool will scan your entire site and let you know if your site is compatible with the upgrade. If not, it will send you an email to let you know what to update in your site to make your upgrade seamless. We will walk you through upgrading to PHP 7.0 in this article. Continue reading “Upgrading to PHP 7 in Managed WordPress Portal”
Creating Backups in Managed WordPress Portal
Note: The instructions in this tutorial are for the Managed WordPress Portal, these instructions do not apply if you have a Liquid Web Managed WordPress Server Optimized Template account.
Managed WordPress Portal will automatically backup your live site daily and store the last 30 days automatically. Even though your site will be backed up automatically, you have the option to manually create a backup of your site at any time. Any backup can be downloaded from the Portal and onto your local drive, giving you the ability to securely store a backup offline to restore your site. Continue reading “Creating Backups in Managed WordPress Portal”
Restoring a Site from a Backup in Managed WordPress Portal
Note: The instructions in this tutorial are for the Managed WordPress Portal client, these instructions do not apply if you have a Liquid Web Managed WordPress Server Optimized Template account.
Sometimes, bad things happen, even on the internet. You’ve learned about how to create a backup and Managed WordPress Portal automatically backs up your site. So luckily, if anything goes wrong with your site, you will be able to restore it easily from your Managed WordPress Portal. Continue reading “Restoring a Site from a Backup in Managed WordPress Portal”
Finding Your SFTP/SSH Credentials in Managed WordPress Portal
Note: The instructions in this tutorial are for the Managed WordPress Portal client, these instructions do not apply if you have a Liquid Web Managed WordPress Server Optimized Template account.
Managed WordPress Portal provides user credentials for both Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for your FTP client and Secure Shell (SSH) access credentials to log in via command line. See the steps below to locate your SFTP and SSH credentials for login. Continue reading “Finding Your SFTP/SSH Credentials in Managed WordPress Portal”