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…
A hacked WordPress site rarely announces itself obviously. Malware often sits quietly: redirecting visitors to spam sites, serving ads to visitors while the admin sees nothing unusual, harvesting customer data, or using your server to send spam emails. By the time Google flags your site or your host suspends the account, the infection may have…
A nameserver is the DNS server responsible for a domain. When you type a domain into a browser, your computer queries a nameserver to find out where that domain’s website lives. Nameservers are set at your domain registrar, and changing them redirects all DNS queries for your domain to a different DNS provider. For most…
Migrating a WooCommerce store requires the same steps as any WordPress migration plus extra care around two things: active orders and payment gateway configuration. A standard WordPress site can tolerate a brief period where the staging environment and production environment are out of sync. A live WooCommerce store takes orders continuously, which means the migration…
When an agency or freelancer builds a WordPress site on WP Engine for a client, the end of the project often raises a hosting question: does the client pay for their own WP Engine plan, or does the site stay under the developer’s account? WP Engine’s transferable sites feature solves this cleanly. You build the…
WordPress error logs record every PHP error, warning, and notice generated by your site. When something breaks — a white screen of death, a 500 error, a plugin conflict that produces unexpected behaviour — the error log is where the diagnosis starts. Knowing where to find the log, how to read it, and what the…
Nonprofits have hosting requirements that differ from commercial businesses in one important way: the people managing the website often change. A volunteer webmaster who set up the site three years ago may be gone. A new staff member with limited technical experience inherits the responsibility. Hosting decisions made for nonprofits need to account for this…
Wix is often the first platform beginners encounter when searching for an easy way to sell online. WooCommerce is the most widely used eCommerce platform on the internet but runs on WordPress, which adds a setup layer that Wix does not. Choosing between them is not just a question of ease — it is a…
WP Engine has two separate permission systems: one for the WP Engine dashboard (your hosting account) and one for WordPress itself. Understanding both, and how to use them to give clients and team members appropriate access without handing over full account control, is important for anyone managing multiple sites or working with clients on WP…
Gzip compression reduces the size of files your web server sends to visitors before they travel across the network. When a browser requests a CSS file, JavaScript file, or HTML page, the server can compress it with Gzip before sending, and the browser decompresses it on arrival. The transfer is smaller, which means it arrives…