Launching on WordPress VIP
This series will walk you through the process of launching one or more sites on WordPress VIP. We recommend reading this carefully to ensure that you’re prepared before you launch your site.
How-to Guides
- Add “Powered by WordPress VIP” to your site
- Add guest bylines to your content with Co-Authors Plus
- Analyze your HTTP request logs with GoAccess
- Change or remove HTTP headers added by VIP Go
- Check DNS record Time to Live
- Code Quality and Best Practices
- Code Review
- Configure a reverse proxy
- Configure builds on CircleCI
- Configure builds on Travis CI
- Configure VIP Search
- Create good changesets
- Create new sites
- Customize user roles
- Disable the privacy tools in WordPress
- Enable Query Monitor on my site
- Flush the page cache
- How to configure the VIP Go Geo Uniques plugin
- Launching on WordPress VIP
- Step 1: Schedule your launch
- Step 2: Decide on your TLS approach
- Step 3: Confirm that your site is working properly
- Step 4: Map your domain
- Step 5: Lower the domain’s Time To Live (TTL)
- Step 6: Conduct search-replace
- Step 7: Test the site by updating your hosts file
- Step 8: Point DNS to VIP
- Step 9: Confirm or provision TLS
- Step 10: Request reconnections
- Celebrate!
- Manage user access
- Manually log errors in New Relic
- Map a domain to your site
- Migrate content: Databases
- Migrate content: Media
- Modify the robots.txt file
- Procure a custom TLS certificate
- Protected embeds on VIP Go
- Retire a site from VIP Go
- Retrieve the URL of a file without the CDN URL
- Set up a VIP Go local development environment for Windows
- Set up a VIP Go local development site
- Set up the ads.txt file
- Strip image metadata on upload
- Test Jetpack on VIP Go
- Testing your site
- Upload languages to the language directory
- Use Search-Replace in WP-CLI
- Using Teamwork Projects
- Using the self-launch tool in VIP Dashboard
- Write a good commit message
- Write custom WP-CLI commands