Ionos (formerly 1&1) is one of the largest web hosting companies in the world by customer count, serving over 8 million customers across Europe and the US. Its WordPress hosting plans start at under $2 per month on promotional pricing. WP Engine starts at $20 per month. These are not competing products aimed at the…
WP Engine and Nexcess are both managed WordPress hosts with strong WooCommerce credentials. Nexcess is owned by Liquid Web and has built a specific reputation for WooCommerce performance, particularly for larger stores. WP Engine is the larger platform, with broader developer tooling and a more established enterprise track record. For a WooCommerce store owner comparing…
WordPress’s memory limit is the maximum amount of PHP memory a single WordPress process can use. When a page load, plugin operation, or background task tries to use more memory than the limit allows, PHP throws a fatal error: Allowed memory size of X bytes exhausted. The page fails to load, the operation stops mid-execution,…
Real estate WordPress sites have specific hosting requirements that set them apart from standard content sites. Property listings with high-resolution photography, IDX feed integrations pulling live MLS data, map-based search functionality, and lead generation forms all create a heavier server footprint than a blog or brochure site. Getting the hosting right means listings load fast,…
Stripe is the most widely used payment gateway for WooCommerce stores. It accepts credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and a growing range of local payment methods. The free WooCommerce Stripe plugin handles the integration, and setup takes about 20 minutes. Here is everything you need to know: how to connect Stripe, what…
WP Engine does not offer a traditional free trial where you sign up and use the platform without paying. However, two things function as effective alternatives: a 60-day money-back guarantee that gives you two full months to evaluate the platform with a full refund available, and Local by WP Engine, a free local development tool…
Google Search Console shows you how Google sees your WordPress site: which pages are indexed, which keywords drive traffic, whether Google is encountering crawl errors, and how your Core Web Vitals score against Google’s thresholds. It is free, takes about ten minutes to set up, and is one of the most useful tools available for…
A staging environment is a private copy of your WordPress site where you can test changes before they go live. Updates, redesigns, new plugin installations, theme changes, and code modifications all get tested on staging first. If something breaks, it breaks in private. Your visitors see nothing, your live site keeps running, and you fix…
WooCommerce does not include recurring payments natively. Subscriptions — weekly meal boxes, monthly software licences, annual memberships, replenishment products — require a dedicated plugin to handle automatic billing, failed payment recovery, subscription management for customers, and the lifecycle events that come with recurring revenue. Here are the best options and what each one is built…
When something breaks on a WordPress site, the first question is usually: what changed? WP Engine’s activity log answers that question. It records every significant action taken through the WP Engine dashboard — backups, deploys, environment changes, user logins, and more — with timestamps and the user account that triggered each action. For agencies managing…