COPYING FILES BETWEEN S3 BUCKETS FOR LARGEFS

With WP Engine’s proprietary LargeFS system, utilizing an Amazon S3 bucket, you can offload all of your site’s images to help stay within your plan’s local storage limits. However, this does present a challenge when you want to create a new install as a copy of an...

Disallowed Plugins in WP Engine

With over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin repository, we only forbid a relative handful. There are pretty good odds that if you want to use a plugin on our infrastructure, you can! It’s your blog after all. But what about the disallowed...

The Ultimate Guide To Website Architecture

How to beat high authority sites with fewer links using silo structure I want to show you something that on the surface defies logic. Let’s look at the keyword “christian mingle reviews,” a good keyword with solid search volume. Definitely in the “doable” KD range,...
WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist

WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management system for independent bloggers and writers. With an Atavist website,...