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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.
Within the "My Organizations" view a user can access the list of all organizations they belong to and access each organization's view of the VIP Dashboard.
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 provides a developer tools panel on WordPress sites for debugging database queries, PHP errors, warnings and notices, and more.
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].