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Happy New Year! Welcome to 2021!
-A warm Happy New Year to everyone, I hope this finds you safe and well and you have all enjoyed the holiday season. It goes without saying that 2020 was a challenging year in many ways, but this warm weather certainly helps build optimism for 2021!
While we’re still running at holiday-level support for a while, we’re always here and updates, backups and more all continue as usual. … continues
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WordPress 5.5.1, WooCommerce 4.4 Released. Critical Security Updates Deployed
-Another busy month with a major WordPress core release, WooCommerce 4.4 and a number of high profile security updates. … continues
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Website Refresh, new Managed Servers and Updates!
-I hope this finds everyone safe and well – here we are with a May 2020 update.
We have been trying to make the most of these unusual times, trying to remain productive and fast-track some projects. … continues
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New Editor Coming in WordPress 5.0
-WordPress version 5.0 is due out in November. With this update comes one of the biggest changes to the WordPress core for many years — a brand new editor — named, Gutenberg.
Update: the release of WordPress 5.0 has been postponed to
Tuesday, November 27th. The release of WordPress 5.0 has been delayed further. At time of writing, no new date has been set. It will likely not be released until early 2019.
The Gutenberg editor, showing the “blocks” interface.
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Updating Envato Market Themes & Plugins
-The Envato Market is a very popular source of premium themes and plugins, from their respective subsites: ThemeForest (themes) and CodeCanyon (plugins). … continues
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Announcing MWP2.0 with PHP7 & AutoSSL
-Awesome! I’ve been waiting to write this one for quite some time. Today we are releasing the biggest update and changes to our standard Managed WordPress Hosting & Support plans, since we first launched as WP NET in 2014! We’re calling it MWP2.0! … continues
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Managed Cloud Server Control Panel Released
-We have exciting news today … our Cloud Server Control Panel is officially released and available now!
Our Managed Cloud Servers are built for speed and security. We have gone to considerable lengths to ensure that these servers are as lean as possible — and that includes the control panel. The software installed on the server is very light-weight and uses practically zero resources. As you would expect, all communication between the control panel and the server uses SSL / HTTPS.
We have intentionally made the interface as simple and uncluttered as possible. Most actions require only a few clicks.
In short: it’s fast, secure and easy to use. … continues
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WooCommerce & Stripe — coming soon to NZ
-Accepting Online Payments in New Zealand
If your launching a WooCommerce site in New Zealand you will inevitably come to a point where you need to decide on a payment processor to use for your online transactions. Of course, there are many options available but the features and costs vary enormously — it can quickly get very confusing. We published a blog post about this some time ago and it’s still the most-read post on our blog. … continues
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WordPress 4.4 released!
-The latest and greatest version of the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress v4.4 is now available!
The WordPress.org blog post has details of what’s new in WordPress 4.4. Generally speaking, this update doesn’t include many changes that WP Admin users will notice — most of the changes in WordPress 4.4 are under the hood (though, they are very exciting changes, none-the-less).
We have already begun testing this version and a few earlier adopter WP NET users will receive the update shortly. Other sites may need to wait a little longer while we test and do the best we can to ensure a smooth upgrade. … continues
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PHP 7 is here!
-The long-awaited release of PHP7 is finally here!
PHP 7 is a major milestone in the evolution of the PHP platform and brings with it large performance gains and improved resource efficiency.
This post on the Digital Ocean blog gives a great summary of what’s new and changed in PHP7.
Our Managed Cloud VPS customers can start using PHP 7 right away, it’s available immediately (alongside 5.6) to use with your WordPress installations. Just open a support ticket if you would like us to switch any of your Managed Cloud VPS WordPress installations over to PHP7.
In our initial tests with the release version of PHP7 on an Ubuntu Cloud VPS, we get ~40% page load reduction on WP Admin pages.
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