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Migrating to WP Engine
- 1. Moving to WP Engine www.devonprep.com
- 2. Devon Prep webmaster. Designed and maintain the site. Not a coder, but created the WordPress theme based on the Foundation and Bones frameworks. Know enough technical stuff to be dangerous. Me - Marguerite Esmonde
- 3. Reasons to move 1. Speed 2. Security 3. Staging
- 4. Reasons to move Wanted access to WordPress expertise Do not have the technical expertise to handle security, caching and other technical issues
- 5. Speed - before the move
- 6. Speed - after the move
- 7. Speed today
- 8. Security Contracts with security firms SecTheory and Sucuri for auditing and remediation Conducts vulnerability scanning for all infrastructure, servers, databases and applications Disallows certain plugins and automatically disables them
- 9. Staging area for development Experiment with features before they go live Create a copy of your website to test out plugins and themes Duplicates everything within the SFTP file server as well as the entire database
- 10. Admin tab Plus a quick links tab across the top
- 11. User portal
- 12. Backups
- 13. Automatically installed WordPress HTTPS No Revisions WP Missed Schedule Limit Login Attempts Force Strong Passwords
- 14. Automatic updates They will automatically install WordPress security updates. Did not install 3.6 Emailed me to disable a disallowed plugin. Gave me a week to do it.
- 15. Files and folders that are searched for when WP Engine scans for disallowed plugins adminer async-google-analytics backupwordpress backwpup broken-link-checker contextual-related-posts dynamic-related-posts ezpz-one-click-backup file-commander fuzzy-seo-booster google-sitemap-generator google-xml-sitemaps-with-multisite-support hcs.php hello.php jr-referrer missed-schedule no-revisions ozh-who-sees-ads portable-phpmyadmin quick-cache seo-alrp similar-posts superslider text-passwords the-codetree-backup toolspack tweet-blender w3-total-cache wordpress-gzip-compression wp-cache wp-database-optimizer wp-db-backup wp-dbmanager wp-engine-snapshot wp-file-cache wp-mailinglist wp-missed-schedule wp-phpmyadmin wp-postviews wp-slimstat wp-smushit wp-super-cache wp-symposium-alerts wponlinebackup yet-another-featured-posts-plugin yet-another-related-posts-plugin
- 16. Pricing
- 17. Cons No call-in tech support for small accounts Email tech support takes awhile to reply Migration slightly confusing. Would have appreciated the ability to call someone at least during the migration process.
- 18. Migration They will migrate the site for you for a fee Site offers very detailed, step-by-step instructions Ran into a problem importing posts, which was solved via the support system. (They needed to change file permissions.)