Server Administration

Several clients and people in the WordPress community can’t stop asking us if/when we are going to be offering PHP7 as part of our managed hosting services. Despite our sheer excitement over the newest versions of PHP, the answer, at least for the time being, is simply NOT YET, and this is due to our […]

Getting a fresh WordPress installation up and running is usually a bit of a hassle. Even with various “automagic” tools out there now like Fantastico or SimpleInstall that often come bundled with cPanel, there is still the issue of setting up a database, making sure all the install files exist (or deleting the junk left […]

Below is a complete list of default WordPress files and directories that should exist on your server after WordPress installation is complete. Understanding this list of default files is important so that in the case your site is hacked (or in case your files are extremely out of date) you can quickly determine which files […]

Sometimes when you are designing a custom WordPress template you will need to create a new theme file. For example, you may already have common files such as index.php or single.php but you may require a new file, e.g. page-contact.php in order to design a custom contact page. Luckily, there is a VERY EASY way […]

Oh, snap… you’ve forgotten your WordPress admin password and the other password reset features are for some reason not an option. Lucky for you, there’s a surprisingly easy way to reset any WordPress user’s password using shell (SSH) access to your server, by accessing MySQL directly using a few powerful command line tools… After you […]

phpMyAdmin is one of the most loved AND hated applications among server administrators for rather simple reasons. Firstly, it is widely loved because it makes SQL database administration so easy by way of a proper UI (user interface), but secondly it is widely hated because it is so often the target of hackers and other […]