Setting Up Site Email for WordPress

WordPress will often need to send emails to you or your users. These emails are known as transactional email, and common ones include: Admin notifications New user signups and password resets Purchase receipts and order updates (WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, etc.) Form submission emails from form plugins Email servers are notoriously difficult to set up….

Adding an SSH Key to a Git Provider

When you create a Git site in SpinupWP your server needs to be able to authenticate with your Git provider so it can run commands like git pull (which SpinupWP uses to deploy your site). Authentication happens using SSH keys and SpinupWP generates a unique SSH key for you to use to authenticate with your…

Push-to-Deploy

Push-to-Deploy is the name of SpinupWP’s continuous deployment feature. It allows you to automatically deploy code to your site when you push code to a git repo. How to Use Push-to-Deploy To get started, you’ll need the following: A site managed in a Git repo. SSH access to that specific Git repo. A live SpinupWP server….

File Ownership and Permissions

In order for some of WordPress’ features to function, it will need write access to your site’s files and folders. This is true of the following features: Media Library uploads Adding/updating plugins and themes Updating WordPress core If you manage WordPress core, plugins, and/or themes via git, Composer or some other deployment process, WordPress will…

Server Paths and Locations

Package Config Locations When you provision a server using SpinupWP we use best practices to set up and install all of the required software packages your server will need to run WordPress properly. This includes installing packages (such as PHP, Nginx, MySQL, etc.) in default locations and not using customized packages as some other hosts might…