Tutorials

With Bash Command Execution integrated directly into each site’s My.Pressable.com Dashboard page, executing commands is faster, easier, and more accessible. This feature allows you to securely execute Bash commands for individual sites […]

Pre-launch foundation (7-14 days before) Overview This phase establishes the technical foundation for handling traffic spikes during your WooCommerce event. Working through these optimizations 7-14 days before launch gives you time to […]

Understanding WooCommerce Cart Fragments WooCommerce cart fragments help update the shopping cart’s contents without having to reload the whole page. This allows for a smooth shopping experience because changes in the cart […]

Technical validation (1-2 days before) Overview This phase focuses on verifying that all Phase 1 optimizations are working correctly and your systems are ready for high-traffic conditions. This is validation only; avoid […]

If you haven’t already done so, your first step will be to address the underlying problem that caused the warning. This usually means fixing malware or phishing pages on your site. To […]

Launch day operations Overview Purpose: Maintain service stability and optimal performance during your high-traffic WooCommerce event through proactive monitoring and rapid incident response. Key principle: Proactive monitoring with rapid response to emerging […]

This guide will walk you through the process of manually preparing your Pressable site backups (Filesystem and Database) and importing them into the LocalWP application to run your site locally. This method […]

Post-event analysis and cleanup Overview Purpose: Clean up temporary configurations, analyze event performance, and prepare improvements for future high-traffic WooCommerce events. Key principle: Learn from successes and challenges to optimize future performance. […]

After pointing your domain to Pressable, you might encounter issues accessing your site, even if the domain is correctly pointed and fully propagated. This guide will help you troubleshoot and resolve these […]

APM Insights (Application Performance Monitoring) is a powerful diagnostic tool available in the Pressable control panel. It allows you to capture detailed information about how your site executes PHP requests, helping identify […]

If you’re running a WordPress site, chances are you’ve noticed slower page load times as your website grows. One often-overlooked culprit for lagging performance is gradual bloating of autoloaded data in your […]

This article explains how to identify and resolve PHP worker saturation issues on Pressable sites. Worker saturation occurs when too many uncached requests hit the PHP layer at once, causing slow load […]

There may be times when you want to reset your WordPress site back to a default state, essentially starting over with a fresh installation. This guide outlines the recommended approach and alternative […]

WordPress databases can grow large over time as data accumulates. This may cause slow queries, large backups, and lag in the admin dashboard. The most common issue is the wp_postmeta table, though […]

New Email Authentication Requirements On February 1st, 2024,  Gmail and Yahoo implemented changes to enhance and secure email deliverability for their services. These changes require that domains have certain DNS records (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) […]

Basic Authentication is now available directly in the My.Pressable.com Dashboard, offering a simple and effective way to restrict access to your WordPress sites using a username and password prompt. Basic Authentication is […]

A .wpress file is a proprietary backup format created by the All-In-One WP Migration plugin. These files contain your full WordPress site, including the database, themes, plugins, and uploads. At Pressable, the […]

OpenAI has now documented how their GPTBot crawls the net and ingests content into their models and they’ve included basic documentation on what to add to robots.txt to disallow bot access to […]

What is a Hosts File? The hosts file allows your computer to map domain names to specific IP addresses locally. When you edit this file, your system will resolve the domain name […]

On the Pressable platform, you have granular control over how your site’s files and directories can be accessed by PHP. This is a powerful security feature that can help protect your site. […]

Every WordPress site uses a database to store content and settings. Each table in that database starts with a prefix, such as wp_, which helps identify which tables belong to your installation. […]