Best practice secure WordPress NGINX configuration for Plesk
by Danila Vershinin, September 18, 2020
WordPress Security WordPress is the most popular CMS for running a website. As such, it is the target for all kinds of malicious bots. The most effective way of reducing security risks associated with WordPress is the proper server configuration. Secure WordPress NGINX configuration must be built on the assumption that any unknown script is […]
Read More...Best practice secure NGINX configuration for WordPress
by Danila Vershinin, September 5, 2020
We review and approach to secure NGINX configuration for WordPress prevents launching malicious scripts and only allows core and plugin files execution
Read More...How to log and fix slow PHP requests
by Danila Vershinin, June 5, 2020
How to troubleshot slow PHP requests using PHP-FPM slow log facility. Common reasons for a slow PHP request and ways to fix it
Read More...NGINX: try_files is evil too
by Danila Vershinin, February 18, 2020
The if directive in NGINX is evil. How about try_files?
Read More...Mailpoet Cron
by Danila Vershinin, May 7, 2018
Fix that crazy Mailpoet plugin to use *real* Linux cron jobs and not their custom cron solution
Read More...PHP Security: disable error_reporting() NOW
by Danila Vershinin, April 9, 2018
Disable php error_reporting() function to secure your server from malware and bad coders pushing junk to it.
Read More...CDN for WordPress
by Danila Vershinin, October 5, 2017
CDN for Wordpress. Do you need one? Yes, you do!
Read More...WordPress Static Files Cookieless Domain with Nginx
by Danila Vershinin, October 3, 2017
Configure cookieless domain for Wordpress static files in nginx
Read More...PHP and HTTP caching
by Danila Vershinin, September 16, 2017
I figure there isn’t much all-in-one information on the subject and this will be a constant draft with my findings. PHP 7 and caching headers PHP itself alters Cache-Control headers only when all conditions are true at the same time during request: session_start() has been called session.cache_limiter has default value of nocache It adds 3 […]
Read More...How to Reset WordPress Password
by Danila Vershinin, August 8, 2017
How to reset Wordpress password easily. Use either SQL queries in Phpmyadmin or MySQL terminal. Or use the excellent WP-CLI command line utility
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