User Agent Restrictions
Custom rules can be added to the VIP Dashboard’s User Agent Restrictions panel to block requests made by specific User Agents to an environment.
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Add, edit, or remove HTTP response headers
HTTP response headers can be added, and some of a site’s HTTP response headers can be edited or removed. Modifications to HTTP response headers should be made with filters in a custom plugin or in a theme’s functions.php file.
Target a specific edge server location
By default, responses to a request are served by an edge server geographically located closest to the user making the request. However for testing purposes or to debug issues related to caching behaviors it can be useful to target an edge server in a specific global location.
Check the status of DNS records for email
To send emails from a custom domain, the domain’s DNS must be updated with the required DNS record values (SPF, DKIM, or DMARC). A domain’s DNS records must be detected by the WPVIP Platform before the domain can be used for sending emails.
DNS records to send email from a custom domain
By default, transactional emails (e.g., password resets, user registration notifications) are sent from the default email address donotreply@wpvip.com. The default sender’s email address can be overridden and emails can be sent from a custom domain that has the required DNS records.
VIP Authentication
VIP Authentication enables users to log in to the VIP Dashboard securely, by signing in with their GitHub or WordPress.com user account and verifying their identity with a preferred multi-factor authentication (MFA) method.
Custom Deployment with continuous deployment
Custom Deployment enables application code to be developed in a version control system outside of an application’s wpcomvip GitHub repository. Repositories outside of the wpcomvip GitHub organization cannot utilize the GitHub Actions service supplied by WordPress VIP, but they are also not limited to GitHub Actions and any type of continuous integration and/or a continuous deployment (CI/CD) method can be utilized instead.
Important Alerts
Important Alerts are automated Notifications that are sent to communicate time-sensitive information that potentially affect an organization and some or all of its applications or environments.
Custom Deployment
The Custom Deployment method enables application code to be developed in a version control system outside of an application's wpcomvip GitHub repository. The developed code can then be deployed to a VIP Platform environment with VIP-CLI or a continuous deployment method.
Default Deployment
The Default Deployment method deploys code from a branch of an application’s wpcomvip GitHub repository to a configured environment. Default Deployment is enabled for all environments of WordPress applications and Node.js applications by default. WordPress application environments can optionally enable the Custom Deployment method to deploy code that was developed outside of a wpcomvip GitHub repository.