The WordPress Hosting Stack Updated on July 21, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this article, we will explore each of the components that make up the optimized WordPress Servers Hosting stack, point out a few potential pitfalls, and explain how each of the components work. Our goal: to get a potential WordPress site owner or webmaster up-to-speed on the important points of this new platform and provide Read More >
Using InMotion Hosting’s Memory Viewer WordPress Plugin Updated on August 16, 2021 by Brad Markle While WordPress is great software because of its ease of use, it does have a history of using excessive server resources (such as memory and/or cpu time) at times. This is not always the fault of WordPress directly, but instead it could be the result of either: a “bad” plugin a custom theme With so Read More >
Complete Guide to WordPress Widgets: How to Add, Customize, and Manage Updated on July 10, 2025 by Carrie Smaha WordPress widgets are very helpful tools that let you add extra things to your website, separate from the main writing on the page. Think of them as special blocks you can place in certain spots on your site, like the sides (sidebars), bottoms (footers), or even tops (headers). They help you make your website do Read More >
Cleaning Up Old Post Metadata in WordPress Updated on June 10, 2025 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Regularly cleaning your WordPress database removes orphaned metadata, expired transients, and unused entries, keeping your site fast and backups quick. Over time, as posts are updated, created, or deleted, the wp_postmeta table can become large and inhibit your website’s performance. In this article, we are going to show you how to clean up old, unnecessary Read More >
How to Optimize your WordPress Database with WP-Optimize Settings Updated on June 2, 2025 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this article, we will teach you how to use the WP-Optimize plugin settings to fully optimize your WordPress database quickly and easily. Why Optimize Your WP Database Optimizing your WordPress database is essential for maintaining fast load times and peak site performance. Over time, your database accumulates unnecessary data that causes performance issues, including: Read More >
High-Performance Images in WordPress with AVIF Updated on February 26, 2025 by Jesse Owens WordPress 6.5 introduced core support for the AVIF image format, which is now supported by all major browsers and in most cases is a much better compression format than JPEG, PNG, and even the modern WebP standard. You can start using AVIF images to improve your website’s Core Web Values scores and improve your user’s Read More >
How to Analyze WordPress Traffic with GoAccess Updated on August 1, 2025 by Jesse Owens Your UltraStack VPS has a powerful tool for analyzing your visitor information in a useful graphical tool called GoAccess. You can use it to view IP addresses of your visitors, analyze cache performance and more. How to View the GoAccess Tool GoAccess Logs Features A lot of information is available from GoAccess. Here, we’ll cover Read More >
New Features, Twenty Twenty Five Theme Released with WordPress 6.7 Posted on November 12, 2024 by Jesse Owens WordPress 6.7, “Rollins” is released as of November 12, 2024. This release includes a ton of improvements to the WordPress Block Editor, under-the-hood improvements for Developers to increase performance and interoperability, and incremental changes toward the ultimate goal of enabling a collaborative editing process natively within the WordPress Dashboard. Twenty Twenty Five, a New Default Read More >
An Introduction to Kadence – A Lightweight but Powerful WordPress Theme Updated on December 4, 2024 by Jesse Owens The Kadence theme is a modern, highly customizable WordPress theme designed to build fast, efficient, and visually appealing websites. Developed by Kadence WP, this theme is optimized for performance and offers deep integrations with popular WordPress plugins. It is particularly notable for its versatility, catering to a wide range of website types, including blogs, business Read More >
Quickly Create a Website with the OceanWP WordPress Theme Updated on June 6, 2024 by Jesse Owens OceanWP is a highly versatile and popular multi-purpose WordPress theme, known for its flexibility, extensive features, and user-friendly design. It caters to both beginners and advanced users, offering a seamless experience in building websites without requiring any coding knowledge. Launched in 2016, OceanWP has quickly gained a reputation for being one of the most feature-rich Read More >
Astra: The Lightweight and Customizable WordPress Theme Updated on June 14, 2024 by Jesse Owens The Astra WordPress theme is one of the most popular themes available for free on the WordPress.org theme repository with over a million active users. Astra’s performance, ease of use, extensibility with many popular page builders, and easy to install starter templates make it a top choice for both beginners and professional web developers. The Read More >
Exciting New Features in WordPress 6.5 – Now Releasing April 2nd Posted on March 27, 2024 by Jesse Owens WordPress 6.5 was set to release on March 26, 2024, but has been delayed one week until April 2. The new version is packed with new features for both Users and Developers. Many new features and improvements are focused on performance and site speed, as well as huge steps forward for the WordPress post editor Read More >
The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing WordPress Performance Updated on December 9, 2025 by Carrie Smaha In our Ultimate Guide to High Performance WordPress for High Traffic Sites, we will show you how to identify and fix common performance issues with WordPress and the server it’s hosted on. Our guide combines over 20 years of experience of fine-tuning servers, CDNs, and website code to deliver high performance WordPress sites. If you’re Read More >
Attach Jetpack License in WordPress Updated on November 29, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this guide, we cover how to attach a Jetpack license purchased through the Account Management Panel (AMP) to a WordPress installation. Jetpack is a versatile WordPress plugin that offers a comprehensive suite of tools to enhance websites. From improving site performance with faster load times to enhancing security with real-time threat detection, Jetpack provides Read More >
Migrating WordPress to UltraStack ONE Manually with rsync Updated on June 17, 2025 by Jesse Owens A manual transfer is the most reliable way to ensure that your migration is successful for large or busy websites. In this guide, we’ll focus on using the command line and the rsync protocol. Remote synchronization using rsync has a few major advantages, including the ability to easily resume interrupted transfers and quickly resync any Read More >
Migrating WordPress Sites Manually into InMotion Central Updated on June 9, 2025 by Jesse Owens When you’re getting started with your new UltraStack One server, you have two options to begin with: Migrating Manually is the most reliable way to get your website transferred over to your UltraStack One server. When using this option, InMotion Central will install a fresh copy of WordPress on your new VPS, and you’ll be Read More >
Seven Major Changes in WordPress 6.2 Posted on April 7, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” is an important release version that includes over 900 changes to the software. The major changes focus on integrating visual editing into the front end of the WordPress interface. These improvements involve the menus, templates, site editor, media, and style options. They benefit the user by providing a more functional interface and Read More >
The Ultimate Guide for Migrating WordPress Websites Updated on June 19, 2025 by Harry Jackson Migrating WordPress websites from one host to another might be a process you go through as a site owner. You could be moving to a new host for a variety of reasons. Better performance is usually a driver for this type of change. Moving a website from a local or development environment is also a Read More >
How to Use Memcached as a Persistent Object Cache in WordPress Updated on April 7, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor A common site health message WordPress displays for users is the recommendation to use a persistent object cache. There are generally two common solutions to this issue: Redis or Memcached. This article will guide you in using Memcached to provide the caching solution that WordPress is recommending. We will walk you through its installation and Read More >
How to Automatically Generate WordPress Posts With ChatGPT Updated on April 3, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor The recent release of the ChatGPT bot by OpenAI has made the use of text-based artificial intelligence accessible to anyone. Simply enter a text prompt and it will automatically generate content or code based on your entries. This can be a strong addition to your workflow by helping you generate ideas or speed up the Read More >
