GitHub repository
Every WordPress and Node.js application hosted on WordPress VIP is supplied with its own GitHub repository within the wpcomvip GitHub organization.
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Configuration
The wp-parsely plugin is customizable and extensible in the WordPress Admin dashboard as well as by using PHP and JavaScript WordPress filters.
VIP User Agents
Incoming requests made by WordPress VIP Platform features and components can be identified by the User Agents listed below.
Vulnerability and Update Scan by the VIP Code Analysis Bot
Vulnerability and Update Scans are an integration of Codebase Manager with the VIP Code Analysis Bot (the Bot). Vulnerability and Update Scans by the Bot scan pull requests made to an application’s wpcomvip GitHub repository. The Bot queries the WPScan API for known plugin and theme security vulnerabilities and available version updates.
Runtime Logs
Runtime Logs provides aggregated, near real-time application logs including PHP error logs for WordPress applications and output sent to stdout or stderr for Node.js applications.
Consent management and Parse.ly
Cookies are set on a site by the must-use (mu) Parse.ly plugin via the Parse.ly JavaScript tracker code. Configurations to a site might be needed in order to be GDPR compliant.
Automattic plugins
Automattic is the author of a large number and wide variety of plugins. Review the plugins authored by Automattic that are most often added to WordPress sites on the VIP Platform.
Cloud storage bucket requirements
Before enabling Database Backup Shipping or Log Shipping, a cloud storage bucket (e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets, Google Cloud Storage buckets, Azure Blob Storage) must be created and correctly configured to receive the shipped files.
IP geolocation
The VIP edge cache respects a set of geolocation response headers that make it possible to deliver variations of cached content based on the end user’s global location.
Settings
The Settings panel in the VIP Dashboard provides a user with information about their VIP Dashboard user account and some management options.