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To fully enable Enterprise Search, the feature must be code-enabled then an Elasticsearch (ES) index for a site's content is created using CLI commands. After those two steps are complete, standard search queries for the site will be offloaded to the newly created ES index.
Plugins must be installed by adding them to the /plugins directory of an application’s GitHub repository in order to be available for activation. Once installed, it is possible to activate the plugins in the WordPress Admin dashboard (WP Admin). However, it is recommend to code-activate plugins instead to gain greater control and consistency across all environments (e.g., production, non-production, and local development environments).
These instructions will demonstrate how to determine a DNS record's Time to Live using common command line tools.
The WP-CLI search-replace command can be used to search and replace strings in a selection of database tables. This is useful for updating post content and options, especially when changing URLs for sites on a WordPress multisite.
Custom domains must be added to an environment’s VIP Dashboard in order to be used for launching a site or sending emails from an environment with that domain.
TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt are available for domains on the VIP Platform by default, but customers can choose to provision custom TLS certificates from other certificate authorities instead.
WP-CLI commands can be created and run using VIP-CLI on the VIP platform. The best practices outlined here are an extension of the developer documentation in the WP-CLI Handbook and the Commands Cookbook.
By default, the VIP Platform caches responses from WordPress and Node.js applications by resource URL. Subsequent requests for the same resource URL may receive a previously cached response.
The /languages directory is mapped to /wp-content/languages. /languages is found in the root of an application’s wpcomvip GitHub repository and is intended for *.po and *.mo language translation files.
By default, image metadata is not stripped from uploaded images. The GET ?strip=all|info|color query parameter string can be added to images served by VIP’s File System in order to remove JPEG image Exif, IPTC, comment, and color data from the output image in the browser.