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Site access for VIP Support

Occasionally users with a vip_support custom user role will appear in the list of a site’s users. Members of the VIP Support Team will create temporary user accounts with the vip_support role, granting full access to a site’s WordPress Admin on an as-needed basis, to assist with issues reported by customers or by our internal monitoring. These temporary user accounts expire after 8 hours and are removed automatically.

VIP Local Development Environment

The VIP Local Development Environment is a feature built into VIP-CLI for creating and managing an environment on a local machine that is nearly identical to an environment running on the VIP Platform. The VIP Local Development Environment can be used for local development, quick testing, tutorials, or other activities where a local stack is more convenient than a non-production environment.

Customizing WooCommerce

Customizing WooCommerce requires careful planning to ensure that the customizations are secure, lightweight, and performant. Customizations can vary widely, from structural changes to template layouts to changing functionality completely such as the checkout flow.

Caching for WooCommerce

Ideally, it is best to cache as much content as possible for maximum performance. However, that is not always possible with a WooCommerce store depending on user sessions or the need to dynamically load content such as cart updates or price and stock feeds.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a free ecommerce plugin authored by Automattic and compatible with WordPress single sites and WordPress multisites on the VIP Platform.

Product feedback

WordPress VIP aims to build business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers, a core tenet of the Automattic Creed. Listening to customer product feedback is a key way to achieve that aim.

Comparison of Elasticsearch options on WordPress VIP

Compare the options and features between the two Elasticsearch powered options available to applications hosted on WordPress VIP: Jetpack Search, and WordPress VIP’s Enterprise Search.

Obtaining a local time

To retrieve the current time as an object with the timezone from the WordPress Admin settings, use the current_datetime() function.

WordPress single site

WordPress single site refers to a single WordPress instance with a single database where the multisite feature is not enabled.

.editorconfig

The skeleton repository contains a .editorconfig file at the root, which unifies the coding style for different editors and IDEs.