WordPress on 8Deploy is normal WordPress. Your themes work, your plugins work, and you administer it exactly as you always have. What is different is what surrounds it.
Installing it
- Go to Sites and choose Add site.
- Select WordPress.
- Enter the domain and choose or create a database.
- Confirm. We install WordPress, create your first admin user and issue a TLS certificate.
- Sign in to your WordPress admin and change the password straight away.
What we set up for you
- Redis object cache, so WordPress stops hammering the database for things it has already looked up
- Page caching, so repeat visitors are served an already-built page
- The global CDN, so your images and assets come from a location near your visitor
- Automatic backups, held for 7, 14 or 30 days depending on your plan
- HTTPS, with a certificate that renews itself
- Real resource isolation, so your site has its own guaranteed memory and CPU that no other customer can take
Caching plugins
You do not need one. Page caching and the object cache are handled at the platform level, which is faster and less fragile than doing it inside PHP. If you install a caching plugin anyway it will usually just duplicate work. If you already have one and the site is behaving oddly, turn it off and see whether the problem goes away.
Making changes safely
On Pro and above you get staging. Clone the live site, update your plugins and theme there, click through it, and only then push it live. This is the single best habit you can adopt, because most WordPress outages are caused by an update applied straight to production.
Clearing the cache
If you have published a change and still see the old page, clear the page cache from the site's page in your panel. It takes seconds.
Keeping it secure
Update WordPress, your theme and your plugins. Remove anything you are not using. Use strong admin passwords. See Keeping WordPress secure.
PHP settings
Memory limits, upload size, execution time and the PHP version are all adjustable per site. See Tuning PHP settings for your site.
The assistant in your control panel can see your actual account and answer about your sites, your plan and your usage. For anything else, email [email protected] and a person will answer.