VIP User Agents
Incoming requests made by WordPress VIP Platform features and components can be identified by the User Agents listed below.
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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 errors logs for WordPress applications and output sent to stdout or stderr for Node.js applications.
Consent management and Parse.ly
Parse.ly is a first-party analytics service owned by WordPress VIP. Parse.ly uses cookies and IP addresses, but restricts their use to recognizing unique browsers/devices. Parse.ly data collection does not link personal identity or other sensitive personal information. Learn more about Parse.ly data privacy, specifically regarding GDPR and CCPA.
Automattic plugins
Automattic is the author of a large number and wide variety of plugins, available through the WordPress.org plugin repository. Of these, the Automattic-authored plugins added most often to WordPress sites on the VIP Platform are:
AWS S3 bucket requirements
Before enabling Database Backup Shipping or HTTP request Log Shipping features, an AWS S3 bucket must be correctly configured to receive the shipped files.
IP geolocation
The VIP edge cache respects the vary: X-Country-Code response header, making it possible to deliver variations of cached content based on an end user’s global location. Logic at the edge determines which specific cached version will be delivered in response to a user’s request based on the country code value in the incoming X-Country-Code request header.
Settings
The Settings panel for the VIP Dashboard provides a user with information about their VIP Dashboard user account, multi-factor authentication (MFA) method(s), and access to Personal Access Tokens that are required for installing VIP-CLI.
Autoloaded options
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.
Organization
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.