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Managing deployments just got a whole lot easier with the introduction of account-level GitHub authorization. This new feature simplifies workflows and resolves token limitations for customers managing multiple sites.

Previously, the MyPressable Control Panel generated a new GitHub authorization token for each individual site. However, GitHub’s OAuth application imposes a limit of 10 tokens per account. Once this limit was reached, older tokens were automatically revoked, disrupting deployments for the corresponding sites. This issue, flagged by one of our customers, highlighted the need for a more scalable solution.

To address this, we’ve introduced account-level authorization. Now, you can authorize your entire account with a single GitHub token that is securely shared across all sites. This enhancement eliminates the risk of exceeding GitHub’s token limit, simplifies token management, and ensures uninterrupted deployments. Importantly, existing site-level integrations remain fully functional, allowing for a seamless transition to account-level authorization without disrupting ongoing workflows.

Setting up account-level authorization is simple. Navigate to Settings → Sites → GitHub Integration in your control panel to get started. 

Once authorized, the token will be applied across all sites in your account. The new process has been rigorously tested and successfully validated by the customer who initially reported the issue.

If you have any questions or need assistance, our support team is here to help. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue enhancing your Pressable experience!

Time is money and we love helping you save both, so it’s especially exciting to share that we’ve made it even easier to manage your plugins and themes on all Pressable-hosted sites. 

As of today, you can now see a new WordPress menu item in any of your sites’ submenus. This menu includes three sections:

• Themes: Displays all installed themes. Can activate available themes.
• Plugins: Lists all installed plugins. Can activate or deactivate available plugins.
• History: Tracks processes such as refreshing the list and bulk updating items. Provides a simple log indicating whether a process succeeded or failed. 

To navigate to this section for each site within your MyPressable Control Panel, please go to Sites > Select Site > WordPress.

Here’s how the list of themes and plugins appear, as well as the history of the actions performed:

This feature does not replace Plugin Management or Scheduling functionalities, as it does not include backups or validation checks. However, it does give an easy way to instantly execute an action without leaving your MyPressable Control Panel.

We hope you find this helpful! Keep an eye on this section for more enhancements in the future and, as always, please don’t hesitate to reach out if there’s something you’d like to see in a future release.

Our team aims to please and we gladly take requests! 

We take security very seriously at Pressable, so it’s with great pleasure that we share the release of SMS as an additional authentication method for account protection. 

You will find these settings by navigating to your Settings -> Security page inside the MyPressable Control Panel. If you do not yet have Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) enabled, you will see the following content within the Two-Factor Authentication section: 

If you have already activated an app as our preferred method for 2FA authentication, you will need to disable it before activating SMS as your method. Only one option is allowed at a time.

When clicking on SMS -> Activate , the system will ask for your phone number in the following section (the country code defaults to your IP’s current geo location):

Once the code is sent to you, you’ll finalize the process by submitting the authentication code that was texted to you. After submitting the confirmation code correctly, 2FA will now be activated using SMS as your authentication method.

When logging into your Pressable account in the future, you’ll be sent a verification code via SMS text message after entering your username and password. You will need to enter it on this screen before you’re able to successfully sign in:

We are grateful for the opportunity to help you keep your accounts and sites secure here at Pressable.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about two-factor authentication or other features we provide to ensure your protection and peace of mind.

We’re excited to announce the launch of Custom Staging Domains, a useful feature designed to give you more flexibility and control over your staging environments.

With Custom Staging Domains, you can now set a unique domain for your staging sites, replacing the default mystagingwebsite.com with a domain that aligns with your brand. The setup process is straightforward and can be managed from the “Settings” section under “Company” in the MyPressable Control Panel: 

Here, you can quickly configure your custom domain, and access DNS information such as nameservers and IP addresses for seamless integration with your domain provider.

Custom staging domains also come with advanced options that make them even more versatile. You can apply custom domains to all existing staging sites in your account or choose to overwrite the robots.txt file, granting greater control over SEO settings for your staging environments. Additionally, when staging sites are converted to live sites, the custom staging domain is automatically removed. Similarly, if live sites are converted to staging, the custom domain is re-applied, streamlining the transition process.

To get started, please check our Knowledge Base article for detailed instructions on configuring custom staging domains.

If you have questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out to our support team. We’re here to help! Stay tuned for more updates as we continue enhancing your Pressable experience.

Keeping your plugins and themes updated are important for a variety of reasons, and we want to help make it easy for you to know when they need your attention. 

We’re excited to share that the MyPressable Control Panel now includes the option to opt in to a weekly report that lists plugins and themes with available updates.

To enable them, you’ll need to visit Settings -> Sites -> Plugin and Theme Updates Report, and then opt into the report after confirming the email address you’d like to use.

We hope you find this useful. Thanks for choosing Pressable!

In our effort to continually raise the bar where it regards your site’s performance and security, we’re thrilled to share we’ve added a new feature that will protect your site if it ever comes under a DDoS attack.

While Pressable’s platform provides DDoS protection, Edge Cache’s Defensive mode offers an additional on-demand layer of protection.

Utilizing proof-of-work, Defensive Mode issues a challenge to browsers visiting the site, mitigating spam bot and DDoS attack requests. Legitimate users will briefly see a challenge page while their browser completes the work before accessing the site.

You can now can activate Defensive Mode within your MyPressable control panel in just a few clicks. This feature can be enabled for durations ranging from 30 minutes to 7 days.

Once it’s activated, you can let it run for the period you select, or you can deactivate Defensive Mode before the automatic deactivation time.

While we hope you never have a need for this, we also hope it provides peace of mind to know you have an extra layer of protection for your mission critical sites.

Thanks for choosing Pressable!

We’ve recently released some improvements to our migration process, making it easier than ever to move your WordPress sites to Pressable!

When you’re ready to move an existing site over to your Pressable account, you’ll still start by adding a site inside your MyPressable Control Panel. However, you can choose the “Create as a migration placeholder” option when setting up the installation.

This will kick off a smart workflow that automatically creates tailored migration instructions for your specific site.

You can read more about the migration steps that follow here.

Of course, the intelligent updates don’t stop there… We’ve heard you share that DNS updates can be tricky, especially when you’re helping on a client-owned domain.

This is why we’ve introduced our new Domain Setup Wizard, which allows you to connect your domain to your Pressable site by automatically detecting the DNS provider and adding the records needed. Simply enter your domain name and the wizard will take care of the rest!

With this workflow, you can make easy work of updating domains where you may not have registrar access. Simply select the “forward login to someone else” option and they can securely log in on their end without needing to do anything else — the wizard will take care of the rest!

More information on the Domain Setup Wizard can be found here.

As always, our team is also available to assist with migrations if you’d rather not handle things yourself. Simply open a new chat and let us know.

Press on!

If you make the effort to test your website’s changes in a staging environment, it makes sense to want an easy way to sync them with your production environment.

We’re excited to share that we have introduced additional options built-in syncing tool that lets you further fine-tune what you sync and where. You can read more about how to use this enhanced method here.

These new options include:

• Theme Files and Directories Sync: Synchronize theme-related files and folders.
• Plugin Files and Directories Sync: Synchronize plugin-related files and folders.
• Media Uploads Directory Sync: This synchronizes the media uploads directory. (Please note that syncing the entire database is necessary for files to display correctly in the Media Library.)
• WP-Content Files and Directories Sync: Synchronize files and directories within the wp-content folder, excluding themes, plugins, or uploads.
• Web Root Files and Directories Sync: Synchronize files and directories located in the root directory, excluding the wp-content folder.
• Database Sync: This process will entirely overwrite the database on the destination site.

If you want to get even more technical, you can choose the Environment Type for your destination site, selecting from local, development, staging, production, or default.

These options are also available for use through our API – you can read documentation about this here.

We hope you find this helpful for your workflows!

It’s hard to keep up with the never-ending (but absolutely awesome) progress within the WordPress community, and remembering when various releases are coming can be a challenge.

This is why we’ve created the Pressable Update Calendar, giving you a clear view of upcoming updates and deprecations on the Pressable Platform, including key WordPress and PHP events.

You can access this inside your MyPressable Control Panel within the News Center, next to where you’re reading this message right now. Easy reminders for the win!

If you manage multiple websites and have wanted to complete a single action across multiple sites at once, this release is for you!

If you have more than one site on your account, you will now see a new “Tools” section in the left hand menu inside your MyPressable Control Panel. You will find the Bulk Operations feature inside.

As of today, you are able to update PHP versions, WordPress versions, or run custom Bash commands across a series of sites on your account. Learn more about how you can use this time-saving tool here.

If you build sites for other people but want them to have their own hosting account, this new feature is for you!

Rather than go through the whole process of migrating their site yourself, whether it’s live or not, you can simply transfer it to their account.

During a site transfer, no changes are made to the site instance itself. All posts, pages, users, and other existing content and elements before the transfer will remain the same after the transfer is completed. All original collaborators attached to the site are also kept in place.

Learn more about this powerful tool here. 

In October, we released the ability to put your sites into maintenance mode through our API. Last month, we made it as easy as clicking a button inside your MyPressable control panel to enable it — no plugins or third-party tools needed!

This feature is available on all Pressable hosting plans and can be used on both production and staging sites. Click here to learn more.

We know that time is money and there never seems to be enough of it. That’s why we wanted to make it easy to see the performance of each of your sites at a glance – no need to dig for the details to get a high level trend check!

Inside your MyPressable control panel’s site listing, you can now see the most recent two performance report scores for each of your sites, along with an indication of whether your site’s performance is improving, staying the same, or degrading. This is further detailed to show the desktop versus mobile scores for each.

Click here to learn more about what these scores mean and how you can put them to work for you.

If you host sites for your clients, you might want to send them beautiful updates that details the recent performance of their site.

To help you make these look even more professional and complete, we’ve created a way to add your company logo to your account, which will automatically white label all of your reports for you without the need to individually customize them. Pretty sweet, right?!

Learn how you can put this into place for your reports today.

If you take advantage of our easy GitHub integration, this one’s for you!

Last month, we released a new set of toggles that give you the flexibility to synchronize your plugins and/or themes directories. Additionally, you can decide whether to delete theme files and/or plugin files that are not present in the repository. Learn more about this here.

Simple yet powerful! We hope this makes things even easier for you.

A couple of months ago, we quietly launched a Plugin Management feature that makes it easy to schedule updates for the plugins you want, when you want, while leaving others as prescribed. Now that we’ve been able to incorporate feedback from our early adopters, we’re thrilled to announce the release to everyone!

This new tool makes it easy to manage your site’s plugins directly from your My Pressable Control Panel (MPCP) without having to access the WordPress Admin backend. You can learn more about it here, but this the short version of its awesome story:

1. You can set up to two plugin update schedules, choosing which plugins you’d like the tool to update and when you’d like it to do so.
2. Before making any changes, we’ll run a site performance report. This will later give you a “before and after” to see if any of the plugin updates impacted your site’s performance.
3. A snapshot is made of your site and cloned to a staging environment where the update is performed. This lets the tool detect any potential update issues in an isolated environment – never on your live production site.
4. After the update is performed in an isolated staging environment, the tool runs additional health and performance tests on your site. Once everything is determined to be working as expected, we’ll include notes about it in your plugin management reports.

Easy as can be, right?

Since this functionality requires additional processing and reporting resources, Pressable’s Plugin Management feature is a paid upgrade that can be purchased on a per-site basis for just $3/mo or $30/yr with annual billing.

You can learn more about how to purchase this and how to get started in our knowledge base article here.

We hope you find this helpful, and as always, we thank you for choosing Pressable!

We have heard your feedback and are excited to share the news that a beautiful update is coming to your MyPressable dashboard! You can expect to see it on Monday, November 13, 2023.

Equal parts aesthetic and function, the enhancements will provide a more modern, intuitive experience while still packing a powerful punch. Here’s a sneak preview of your new welcome page:

You’ll note that the menu items currently in your top navigation menu will be moved to the left. The Knowledge Base and News Center will move to the upper left menu, while your Settings, Activity, and other menu options will move to the lower left by your name:

You’ll see even more navigational improvements on your new Site Details pages. Once again, your horizontal menu items will move to the left, making it easier to see and access the available tools and features. Here’s an example of how that page will look when the update is released:

And of course, if you’re a dark mode lover like many of us are, we have you covered in the new design. Here’s a preview of what that will look like should you choose to enable it:

These are just a few examples of the improvements you can expect to see soon in your MyPressable Dashboard.

Prior to launch, we will publish a full inventory of the changes in case you need a little help finding things or just want to see what was updated. We’ll be sure to post a link to it here in your News Center when it’s available.

Until then, we thank you for choosing Pressable and look forward to sharing the new experience with you soon!

We are excited to share that you can now track various actions taken on your Pressable account and sites within the My.Pressable.com Dashboard.

These logs are categorized into two sections: Site Activity Logs and Account Activity Logs.

As the names suggest, one provides details of the activities and events taken on your Pressable site(s) and the other provides you with a window into the diverse interactions occurring within your My.Pressable.com Dashboard.

These features are accessible today through your My.Pressable.com Dashboard and the Pressable API.

More information about activity logs and screenshots of them are available here.

We hope you find these helpful!

In your MyPressable Control Panel you can now select a default datacenter for all new sites 

here: https://my.pressable.com/settings/sites

Then select the data center location you’d like to use in the Default Datacenter section as shown below:

The Pressable API documentation includes the default data center option setting for the account.

The currently selected value also includes the GET response for an account, displaying the account’s current default data center setting.

Pressable is thrilled to announce Edge Cache across all plans, a free performance feature that allows your WordPress site to leverage our global network of edge servers to deliver page and static asset cache.

Edge Cache provides performance improvements, particularly to the Time to First Byte (TTFB), by serving page cache directly from the closest server available to a site’s visitors. This cache is served from Pressable’s four origin datacenters, and over 24 edge datacenters, giving sites a total of 28 Point of Presence (PoP) locations that are continuously expanding.

Edge Caching is being released in beta; however, has been tested extensively, including on some of our largest sites, high-traffic sites.

You can read more about Edge Caching and how to enable it for your site here.

In your MyPressable Control Panel, you can create on-demand backups under your site’s Backups | Restores tab. 

In this section, you will see the ability to create a file system backup or a database backup. You are limited to three backups at any point in time. 

On-demand backups are automatically deleted after thirty (30) days for the latest backup taken and seven (7) days for the oldest backups. 

You can restore your on-demand backups from the same screen.

The on-demand backups are separate from the automated backups we maintain for your site and will not affect the daily backups we automatically create.

Additional detail can be seen in our knowledge base article here.

We hope you find these helpful!