One of the best things about WordPress is the ability to add features using WordPress Plugins. WordPress comes with a lot of tools to build a website, but expanding it with plugins can help customize your site to fit your needs. Use plugins to add custom forms, widgets, search engine optimization (SEO) tools, or even Read More >
John-Paul Briones
John-Paul is an Electronics Engineer that spent most of his career in IT. He has been a Technical Writer for InMotion since 2013.
How to Use bbPress in WordPress
Forums are a great way to encourage community interaction on your WordPress site. You can create topic pages for visitors to discuss anything from general ideas to specific issues. They are sometimes referred to as bulletin or message boards. Since WordPress does not natively support this option you should use a 3rd party plugin. BBPress Read More >
How to Update your Billing and Contact Information in AMP
It’s essential to keep your billing and contact information up-to-date so your website will stay online. Most accounts will renew automatically before allowing them to expire. But, if your payment information is not correct we would not be able to renew any services that you have subscribed to. When there are any billing issues, the Read More >
How to Create an XML Sitemap for Your WordPress Site
An XML sitemap is a document that helps Google and other major search engines better understand your WordPress website while crawling it. Search engines use bots, also known as robots or web crawlers to identify the content of your site and index Pages and Posts. Once it is indexed, it will show up on SERPs (Search Engine Read More >
Backup & Restore Your Site With the WordPress Duplicator Plugin
When you need to migrate a WordPress site, make an emergency backup, or generate a copy of your website for testing, you should consider using the WordPress Duplicator plugin. In this article, we will show you how easy it is to backup and restore your site. We’ll also go over some of the other tools Read More >
Creating your First WordPress Site with Ansible
A low-cost High-Availability Cloud Server is one of the best ways to host websites and other web apps. However, deploying the software can be time-consuming depending on your experience level. Luckily, with our included Ansible Control Node and WordPress UltraStack Ansible Playbook, you can deploy a WordPress site with all necessary dependencies easily. In this Read More >
Maintaining Your Deployments in GitHub
In this article, we will outline the process of using Git to handle versioning a repository and keeping a copy on a GitWeb provider as a backup, or for sharing. This article assumes that you have already received a copy of the WordPress UltraStack playbook, and want to retain custom changes to the playbook by Read More >
Using Git to Manage your Workflow
“Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.” https://git-scm.com/ Choosing a workflow Part of what has made Git so common is that it is able to support a nearly limitless amount of workflows. From the extreme organizational complexity Read More >
Ansible Galaxy and Prebuilt Playbooks
Rather than create our roles from scratch, we’ll use community submitted roles from Ansible Galaxy for use in our playbook. You can think of Ansible Galaxy as a community repository for Ansible Roles. As any person or team is able to contribute, it is important to use curated playbooks that are well-tested. This ensures that Read More >
End to End Guide to Deploy WordPress UltraStack Using Ansible and Git
The InMotion WordPress UltraStack is a curated set of services and configurations developed to provide what we believe is the best way to run a WordPress stack. We took the standard LAMP stack and extended it to also leverage Nginx as a caching layer and then used Redis to serve as an object cache. Previously, Read More >
Getting Started with Ansible
Do you find yourself configuring many servers or hosting plans with similar sets of software packages, configuration files, and deploying full software stacks? Although Ansible is the most widely used automation engine, there are a number of configuration and orchestration solutions available. Read through this article to learn about getting started with Ansible. What is Read More >
How to Search for a List of URLs in Google Analytics
This tutorial explains how to: Prepare your list of URLs Search for a List of URLs In this guide, we will show you how to search for a list of URLs in Google Analytics using the Advanced search option. When tracking web page performance in Google Analytics, many people will search for one page at Read More >
How to change your admin password in Drupal 8
In keeping with good security policy, it is important to change your password on a regular basis. Being the administrator, you have a different dashboard available to you than the normal users do. Changing your password within the admin dashboard is quick and easy in Drupal 8. Follow the instructions below to learn how. Be Read More >
Accessing the McAfee Control Console as an Admin
The McAfee Control Console is where you can login and administor your account. The first time you login to the McAfee Control Console, you must create a password. After the password has been set you can login directly. In this guide we will show you how to create your password, then login to the McAfee Read More >
Registrations and Transfers
Questions most often asked regarding domain names include: How do I register a new domain? How do I transfer my existing domain name? If you already have a domain name and you’re not sure if you need to transfer it, please read our article, Domain Transfers vs. Namserver Changes.
Setting up an SMTP Connection in Moodle
Messages sent from Moodle can go through either the PHP mail function or through SMTP server connection. In some cases, the PHP mail function may be disabled on the server (Depending on the hosting company) to prevent spammers from sending emails through compromised websites. To work around this, the email can be configured to connect Read More >
How to Secure Your Website With Sucuri for WordPress Hosting
In this article: This article describes how to use the Sucuri plugin for WordPress to secure your website. It also explains some of the benefits of using Sucuri for WordPress. NOTICE: Sucuri for WordPress is just one way to secure your website’s data. Check out the many features WordPress Hosting by InMotion Hosting including supplementing Read More >
How to Use Your Microsoft Advertising Credits Special Offer
InMotion Hosting has partnered with Microsoft Advertising to help connect our customers with millions of searchers not using Google. The Microsoft Search Network can deliver your pay-per-click ads on Bing, MSN, Yahoo, and AOL sites worldwide. Through this special offer, you can get $100 in search advertising when you spend $25 in Microsoft Advertising. In Read More >
How to Install and Set Up Simple Author Box for WordPress Hosting
In this article you can learn: How to Install How to Set Up Settings Author Information This article describes how to use Simple Author Box to display author information on a post. The instructions will guide you through how to install and set up Simple Author Box for WordPress Hosting. How to Install Simple Author Read More >
How to Install and Set Up Login LockDown for WordPress Hosting
This tutorial explains how to: Install Login LockDown Set Up Login LockDown This article describes how to secure your login page. You can learn how to install and set up Login LockDown to secure your WordPress website. NOTICE: Login LockDown for WordPress is just one way to secure your website. Check out the many features WordPress Hosting Read More >
