MainWP Blog - 2018

WordPress powers over 32% of the internet and is one of the most used CMS out there. With WordPress being used as much as it is, who are the largest WordPress based companies and who are they owned by. WordPress Worth Current estimates place WordPress commercial ecosystem at generating $10 billion annually. The Titan in the Room If you’re going to talk about WordPress-based companies, then the titan is Automattic, which owns a number of companies like WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Continue reading the post...

Looking back to 2018,  like to reflect on some of the articles we have posted at MainWP. In fact, earlier in the month, we did just that. One of the types of articles I like to post is Q&A’s. It is a great opportunity to listen to other WordPress professionals to find out what we can learn about business. This past year we had Q&A articles with Sujay Pawar, Joshua Vandercar, and the guys from the WP Builds Podcast. Q&A with developer Continue reading the post...

What is the wp profile Command in WP-CLI? wp profile command is designed for finding where and what is slowing a site down. As with any performance benchmarking, multiple runs will need to be used. Start by running the common commands for wp profile multiple times. This will help you find what is causing WordPress to load slowly on a site. wp profile stage This command will output a number of options in the table. They are broken down as: Continue reading the post...

What is the wp doctor command in WP-CLI? wp doctor lets you easily run a series of configurable checks to diagnose what’s ailing with WordPress. Without wp doctor, your team has to rely on their memory to manually debug problems. With wp doctor, your team saves hours identifying the health of your WordPress installs by codifying diagnosis procedures as a series of checks to run with WP-CLI. It comes with dozens of checks out of the box. name description autoload-options-size Continue reading the post...

What is the WP-CLI? The WP-CLI is a way of doing anything that you would be able to do in the back-end of a WordPress site in wp-admin, but using command lines. A number of hosts have WP-CLI installed on new servers. One great example is on Cloudways. Common WP-CLI commands If a client site has a white screen issues from an active plugin or theme and you have sFTP/SSH access on the site, then you can change the active Continue reading the post...

Data is all around us. Chances are you look at data every day. Maybe you have a spreadsheet loaded with Google Analytics information. Maybe you double check marketing statistics every day. Making sense of data is a noble quest. In fact, finding the story in the data is more than a noble quest. It helps users see behind the numbers to find out what is happening. Infographics are similar. It allows a pictorial representation of numbers and statistics. Often, infographics Continue reading the post...

Warning: This post may contain Gremlins. With Christmas around the corner, one of the classic Christmas movies is still Gremlins (1984), a mid-eighties mix of comedy and horror, set with a very Christmas theme. With the film’s mix of Frank Capra and Speilbergisms, the setting is a riff of Bedford Falls from It’s a Wonderful Life, even if it does look like the back-lot of Universal Studios. The film is a classic mix of director Joe Dante’s best work and Continue reading the post...

The first step to use an external cron service like EasyCron to run MainWP crons, is this constant needs to be set in the MainWP Dashboard wp-config.php file. MainWP has a post which will help with this setting. define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', true ); For more information about WP Cron, see here. EasyCron is a task scheduler which provides services of calling specified URLs at a specified time or by a time interval. It eliminates the dependence on traditional Cron service and Continue reading the post...

Everyone has their favorite Christmas movie list. So, you know, there are tons of opinions on what the best movies at Christmas are going to be. I’m not going to give you a list, but I am going to give you some lessons we can learn from some of the best Christmas movies (yes Die Hard is a Christmas movie!) It takes all year to get here, but it seems to finish in a flash, there is no time to Continue reading the post...

With Christmas only a few days away, now is the time to reflect on the many nuggets of joy that WordPress has sprinkled over our lives. As well as the frustrations and the many, many things that can break on clients site, as well as the things that WordPress core updates can break. On the 1st day of the Christmas, WordPress gave to me – A way to delete the Hello Dolly plugin on client sites, so clients did not activate Continue reading the post...