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The Options API is a built-in WordPress method for storing simple key-value data related to theme settings, widget settings, plugin settings, global site settings, and more. Data that is stored using the Options API can be found in the wp_options database table.
On VIP, an organization is an entity that consists of a business in contract with VIP, the applications owned by that business that are hosted on the VIP Platform, and the people selected by that business to have access to view and manage their applications.
When receiving a request for a URL, the page cache considers the entirety of the URL, including GET parameters. As a result, the page cache will identify example.com/?a=1&b=1 as different from example.com?b=1&a=1 and cache each variant separately. This caching behavior provides a more scalable method for serving variations of a page to specific user groups.
Users have access to the VIP Dashboard after they have been invited to an organization with an assigned Org role. Invitations are created based on a user’s email address, and a user’s email address can be invited to the VIP Dashboard by more than one organization. Once a user has logged in to the VIP Dashboard with multi-factor authentication for that email address, they can switch their VIP Dashboard to any of the organizations to which they belong from the “My Organizations” view.
The Plugins panel in the VIP Dashboard displays a list of plugins that are located in the /plugins directory of a WordPress environment’s wpcomvip GitHub repository branch.
Query Monitor is a WordPress plugin that provides a developer tools panel for debugging database queries, PHP errors, warnings and notices, hooks and actions, block editor blocks, enqueued scripts and stylesheets, HTTP API calls, and more. Query Monitor is loaded via VIP MU plugins on all VIP Platform WordPress environments. Users might need access to the plugin’s debug panels enabled through code or with VIP-CLI.
Network-level tables that are shared by all sites on the multisite network:
Users granted access to an organization’s VIP Dashboard with an Org guest role can only interact with an organization’s applications for which they also have an assigned App role.
PHP is under active development, and runs on all WordPress environments. As new versions are released, WordPress VIP customers are encouraged to prepare their application code for a PHP version update as soon as possible.
The versions of software that are deployed to a WordPress or a Node.js VIP Platform environment can be managed in the VIP Dashboard or with the VIP-CLI command: vip config software update <wordpress|php|nodejs|muplugins> <version> [options].