Getting Started with your new WordPress Hosting plan
WordPress Hosting refers to hosting plans that are optimized specifically for WordPress.
Our UltraStack infrastructure ensures that your WordPress site is hosted on WordPress servers that deliver not only speed and reliability but also allow server-side caching.
In addition, all WordPress Hosting plans come with an advanced caching tool. This tool allows you to select your cache profile. The WordPress-specific profiles include Standard, Dynamic, and WordPress Multisite. Customizing your caching in cPanel will bring a new level of speed to your WordPress website.
Features
One of the best perks of WordPress Hosting is that each plan comes jam-packed with useful features. The articles below will help you maximize your WordPress Hosting account and give you a better understanding of how our WordPress-optimized servers help you get the best performance out of your website.
Getting started with WordPress Hosting is a simple process, but if you’re new to the CMS, it can seem overwhelming at first. Explore our WordPress Hosting basics articles for step-by-step directions that will walk you through how to install WordPress and help you become familiar with the tool.
Billing for all InMotion Hosting accounts is done within your AMP (Account Management Panel), which controls all billing-related items associated with your hosting account.
Since you will be using AMP to manage all your billing-related needs, take time to read the following articles so you know how to log in to it and use it.
You shouldn’t be punished for moving your WordPress website to a new host, that’s why we offer free, no-hassle website migrations.
However, if you would rather take care of your website transfer yourself, the below articles will help you ensure your transfer experience is as smooth as possible.
Once you have purchased a WordPress Hosting account and either transferred or set up your website, you’ll want to customize it to match your specific wants and needs.
Check out these articles for a walkthrough on how to configure WordPress and customize it to your desired specifications.
WordPress Hosting on a Dedicated or VPS server helps you get the most out of your website by providing you with dedicated resources on high-performance servers that can be tailored to match your needs.
If you decide to go for a VPS or Dedicated WordPress Hosting plan, there is some additional learning required.
Explore these articles for help setting up and configuring your VPS or dedicated server.
Jetpack is a powerful WordPress plugin giving you a full set of tools which assist with building, maintaining, and keeping your website running smoothly. From automatic website backups to protection from brute-force hacking, Jetpack comes packed with advanced features that anyone with a WordPress website can benefit from.
Explore these articles to learn how to install, setup, and use Jetpack.
Another great thing about WordPress is that it’s open sourced and has a fantastic, supportive community to help you learn about the CMS and expand your WordPress knowledge and skillset.
Explore these helpful resources to help you solve problems and master WordPress.
The Jekyll content management system (CMS) is designed to create lightning fast, highly portable, version controlled static websites and blogs written in simplified Markdown syntax. Unlike dynamic content management systems, Jekyll works by parsing a series of text files and generating static HTML files from there. This means the entire site can be contained in one directory — no databases, no external applications needed, just the bare web server requirements will make your Jekyll site run lightning fast. No caching required.
And the Jekyll program itself creates a live server environment, so you can test your site before publishing it. No need to create a local server environment. All you need is the Ruby app for running Jekyll.
How to Create a Jekyll Blog
The Jekyll CMS can be used to create any kind of site, but the available blogging features make it especially useful for creating a blog out of that HTML files. You can use tags, categories, and all the other standard CMS magic. Your posts can also be dated and synced with archive pages. Follow along with the tutorials below to get started creating your Jekyll blog:
Once you’ve created a Jekyll site, you will probably want to change the default theme or even create your own theme. The articles below will demonstrate how to change the default theme as well as introduce you to the template system that allows you to easily create your own layout.
One of the great features about the Jekyll system is that the whole process be easily automated. Your favorite publishing process can be scripted and repeated. Most often, the benefits of using a static content management system is that you can version control the whole project with Git, or create some simple bash scripts to move your files from your local production environment to your live production server.
Drupal Mixpanel integration grants access to a product analytics stack with powerful features centered around deep user segmentation and A/B testing. This is much more complex than most popular web analytics tools like Matomo. Those are primarily focused on reporting user activity, not modifying a website in accordance with someone’s user agent, geolocation, etc. From Read More >
NGINX can be used as a web server (in lieu of Apache) or proxy server. For those using it as a web server, creating NGINX redirects requires editing server configuration files. This is different from Apache which also checks .htaccess files during web server requests. NGINX doesn’t use .htaccess. Need to know how to redirect Read More >
Cloud Server Hosting Product Guide
Linux Cloud Server Hosting is a self-managed virtual private server with a bare operating system (OS) that you can fully customize to meet complex needs. Popular uses include:
Private server with dedicated resources for databases, online gaming, virtual private networks (VPNs), etc.
Web applications you don’t want sharing resources with a control panel you don’t need
Dev ops and testing on multiple OSs at any time
Server cluster automation
There are many more benefits of unmanaged server hosting. This product guide is designed to provide tutorials for the most common tasks, including data migration and software development, in one place.
If you’re still curious about the benefits of an unmanaged Linux server, read our blog explaining the features between Managed VPS and Cloud Server Hosting.
Once you finish setting up your Linux Cloud Server, these articles can help you understand new ways to improve performance and security for greater success.
The W3 Total Cache plugin is a great tool to speed up your site, and your W3 Total Cache settings can help you make sure you are getting the most out of the plugin. The settings allow you to choose cache options for the following settings: Page cache Database cache Object cache Browser cache Lazy Read More >
Caching your WordPress site content is a recommended way to improve performance and reduce server usage. The LiteSpeed Cache plugin is a popular tool to easily implement site caching. It also offers a full suite of WordPress optimization tools to ensure your site delivers the best possible customer experience. Learn how to optimize your WordPress Read More >
By this point, if you have installed your first inspiration, it’s time to check your site for possible improvements in speed and performance. Installing the inspiration has given your site a certain look and feel. This kind of customization gives your site a personal touch. But once those considerations are taken care of, and you’re Read More >
The Plus Addons for Gutenberg is a WordPress plugin that extends the capabilities of the visual editor integrated into WordPress since version 5.0. The Plus Addons for Gutenberg plugin provides blocks that make it easy to add content and different types of functional elements to a post or page. It also provides detailed control over Read More >
The Matomo Analytics Drupal module connects your Drupal site to your Matomo Analytics application and eases the process of modifying the tracking code to better suit your needs without advanced programming experience. The Drupal Matomo module tracking options include: Using the right on-site web analytics software for your needs will prove to be a valuable Read More >
Matomo Analytics, formerly Piwik Analytics, is one of the most popular Google Analytics alternatives available today. The open source web analytics suite has a long list of features and over 50 plugins available to customize user interaction and tracking and for your marketing and privacy needs. The recommended shell_exec PHP function cannot be enabled on Read More >
The open-source nature of WordPress allows for the complete customization and scalability of your website. However, not all users can or want to add custom code to their WordPress site. With plugins you can easily customize your website, adding complex functionality and interactive elements, without the fuss of code.
What Are WordPress Plugins?
WordPress Plugins are third-party pieces of software you are able to search for and install via your WordPress dashboard. Plugins are developed to improve performance or add additional functionality to your website that is not included in the standard installation of WordPress.
For example, you can install security, caching and SEO plugins to help protect, speed up, and optimize your site for your users. You can install form plugins to capture end-user information or a gallery plugin to create a better layout for your images.
Below we’ll outline essential plugins to help optimize your website management and end user experience.
Getting Started with WordPress Plugins
Learn how to install a plugin, as well as the best plugins for any WordPress beginner:
There are thousands of WordPress plugins available, but only a few are essential for the successful upkeep of your website. Here are some of our recommendations:
WordPress plugins are also great for adding complex functionality to your website. With plugins you can add an online store, one-click login, and more:
If you need a new home for your WordPress site, look no further than InMotion’s WordPress Hosting solutions for secure, optimized, budget-friendly servers.
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WP Super Cache can help optimize your WordPress site to load faster and use fewer server resources. This provides a better experience for visitors to your site and can help your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Follow along and we’ll explain how WP Super Cache works and how you can use it to improve your Read More >
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 >
Most often, you might see a “502 bad gateway” error in one of our WordPress hosting plans, because these plans use Apache web servers with Nginx as a proxy server. Read on to find out how proxy servers work. How to Fix the 502 Bad Gateway Error Refresh Your Page Clear Your Browser Cache Checking Read More >
The DNS may seem like an intimidating topic. Once you get used to the numerous abbreviations and new words, though, its structure is actually quite simple! Below, we’ll review the foundational terminology of DNS management and help walk you through the most common aspects of Nameservers and DNS Records you’ll need to deal with when Read More >
In responsive coding, we code in a range and all screen sizes that fall within that range are affected by a certain selection of code. These are referred to as media queries. In general, there are anywhere from 3 to 5 average ranges that web designers code in. You can find examples of these ranges Read More >
If you have many users revising pages and posts on the same website, keeping track of all of the changes being made can be challenging. One frequently overlooked feature of WordPress is the automatic storage of all changes made to pages and posts, referred to as revisions. The WordPress revisions feature is useful for updating Read More >
Amy is part of the all-women release squad for WP 5.6! I have a confession and I hope you won’t judge: I am in love with WordPress. Well, me and 38% of the internet (1). Not that I’m jealous or anything. I know it’s part of the WordPress.org mission to be inclusive, which means WordPress Read More >
When attempting to determine which type of server is best for your needs, you may find yourself looking for a hosting solution that simply provides the hardware and allows you to install whichever operating system you prefer. Instead of purchasing a pre-configured CentOS server with cPanel and WHM already installed, Bare Metal Servers offer you Read More >
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