What Kinsta shipped in March 2026

Welcome to Kinsta Documentation👋

Kinsta’s documentation outlines key features and tools for managing WordPress hosting, emphasizing ease of use and customization. The platform allows users to create new WordPress sites via a site cre…

Kinsta logs record year as top choice for serious WordPress businesses, with 60% customer growth, new executive hires and a platform buildout

Kinsta, ranked #1 in G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards for web hosting, announced record growth in 2025, including a 60% year-over-year customer increase to over 230,000 sites across 128 countries. The c…

Kinsta Review: A Game Changing WordPress Hosting Provider

Kinsta Review: A Game Changing WordPress Hosting Provider

Kinsta Hosting Review: Is the Performance Worth the Price?

Kinsta Hosting Review: Is the Performance Worth the Price?

Kinsta Review 2024: The Ultimate Guide to Kinsta’s WordPress Hosting Performance

Kinsta Review 2024: The Ultimate Guide to Kinsta’s WordPress Hosting Performance

Kinsta: High-Performance Managed WordPress Hosting

Kinsta: High-Performance Managed WordPress Hosting

Catching Up With Team Kinsta: How the Company Remains a Trendsetter in Cloud-Powered, Premium WordPress Hosting

Catching Up With Team Kinsta: How the Company Remains a Trendsetter in Cloud-Powered, Premium WordPress Hosting

Kinsta Uses Cloudflare Solutions to Prevent DDoS Attacks and Provide a Premium Hosting Experience

Kinsta Uses Cloudflare Solutions to Prevent DDoS Attacks and Provide a Premium Hosting Experience

Website Radar Review: Kinsta Hosting for Demanding Sites

Website Radar Review: Kinsta Hosting for Demanding Sites

SLAs and guarantees: What should your agency expect from your hosting partner?

SLAs and guarantees: What should your agency expect from your hosting partner?

How Jala Design enforces a non-negotiable reliability standard for its clients

How Jala Design enforces a non-negotiable reliability standard for its clients

Access more traffic and response insights with the Kinsta API

Access more traffic and response insights with the Kinsta API

Automate your Kinsta workflows with Zapier and the Kinsta API

Managing a large stable of WordPress sites usually requires a lot of clicking to execute repetitive tasks in administrative dashboards. And as a WordPress administrator for an agency, you know automat…

WordPress Maintenance Mode – Troubleshooting and Customizing

Enterprise hosting risk isn’t downtime—it’s uncertainty

We often think the real risk for a website owner or agency with multiple sites is that one of their sites will go offline. This is especially true as the sales season approaches, as downtime can be ve…

How to Select the Best Domain Registrar (Our Recommendations)

The article provides a comprehensive guide on selecting the best domain registrar, emphasizing key factors that differentiate high-quality registrars from subpar ones. The most critical insight is tha…

4 agency founders share the decisions that shaped their businesses

Four agency founders shared candid insights into the business decisions that shaped their companies, revealing key lessons on scaling, client selection, and strategic restraint. The most critical take…

Email Marketing Software Recommendations (Why Not to Use Your Host)

Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting provider, warns against using hosting servers for bulk email marketing due to risks like IP blacklisting, poor deliverability, and lack of email authentication (DMA…

What Is TTL (And How Do You Choose the Right One)?

Discourage Search Engines from Indexing This Site: What It Means and How to Use It

What Is SSD? Everything You Need to Know About Solid-State Storage

What is PaaS? How Platform-as-a-Service is different from IaaS and SaaS

Top 26 Performance Testing Tools to Use

Google Cloud vs Azure (Comparing the Giants)

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure remain the second and third-largest cloud providers by market share, trailing Amazon Web Services. Google Cloud reported $9.2 billion in revenue for 2023, achieving pr…

Looking Back at the Top Web Design Trends (2018-2019)

Web design trends from 2018-2019 shifted toward bold, experimental styles, including broken grid layouts, vibrant color palettes, 3D animations, and brutalist design. AI chatbots and progressive web a…

In-Depth HTTP to HTTPS Migration Guide for WordPress

Google Cloud vs AWS (Comparing the Giants)

11 Benefits of Cloud Computing

How to Fix Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance Error on WordPress

WordPress sites may get stuck in maintenance mode during updates, displaying the 'Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute' message indefinitely. This occurs when the .mai…

How Do Edge Servers Work? Everything You Need to Know

How to Fix the “Cannot Modify Header Information – Headers Already Sent By” Error

How to Fix the PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR Secure Connection Error

25 Inspiring Website Color Schemes for Ecommerce, Landing Pages, And Personal Websites

How to Fix “Sorry, This File Type Is Not Permitted for Security Reasons” Error in WordPress

WordPress restricts file uploads to specific types by default for security reasons, triggering the error 'Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons' when users attempt to upload unsu…

How to Create Anchor Links in WordPress (3 Easy Methods)

Anchor links, also known as jump menu links or table of contents, are hyperlinks that instantly navigate users to specific sections of a webpage, improving user experience and potentially boosting SEO…

Wild and Interesting Snapchat Statistics and Facts

What’s the Average DevOps Engineer Salary?

Everything You’ll Need to Be a DevOps Engineer

The role of DevOps engineers has evolved from an obscure concept 20 years ago to a critical function in modern IT departments, enabling faster and more efficient project delivery. The DevOps market, v…

Facebook Instant Articles: How to Setup With WordPress

Facebook Instant Articles, launched in 2015, is a mobile publishing format that loads articles 10x faster than standard mobile web, improving user experience for news publishers. Publishers earn 70% o…

20+ Mind-Blowing Instagram Stats and Facts

How to fix ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL _ERROR

The article explains how to resolve the ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR, a common issue affecting WordPress websites that fail to load over a secure HTTPS connection. The error occurs when a browser cannot est…

Google Search Console: Everything You Need to Know to Improve Your SEO

Google Search Console (GSC), previously known as Webmaster Tools, is a free suite of tools provided by Google to help webmasters monitor, manage, and improve their websites’ presence in Google Search …

How to Fix Cloudflare’s “Error 520: Web Server Is Returning an Unknown Error”

How and Why to File a Facebook Trademark Infringement Report

The article explains how Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting provider, has faced repeated trademark infringement issues, particularly on Facebook, where unauthorized pages impersonate their brand to d…

Lowdown on Google Mobile Popup Penalty for Website Users

Google’s January 10, 2017 update devalued pages using popups or invasive interstitials on mobile, reducing their search rankings. The penalty applies per page and targets disruptive user experiences, …

How to Fix “Serve Static Content From a Cookieless Domain” Warning

The article addresses the 'serve static content from a cookieless domain' warning, which appears in tools like Pingdom, GTmetrix, or Google PageSpeed Insights. This warning occurs when static assets (…

Free SSL Certificates and Hosting From Kinsta

Kinsta has integrated Cloudflare’s free SSL certificates into its managed WordPress hosting platform, automatically providing wildcard domain support for all customer sites without manual setup. This …

How to Show Hidden Files in FileZilla

How to Improve Website Navigation (With Examples and Reasons on Why You Should Do It)

How to Fix the Facebook oEmbed Issue in WordPress

Facebook has deprecated its legacy unauthenticated oEmbed endpoints for WordPress, effective October 24, 2020, requiring authentication via Facebook’s Graph API for all future embeds of Facebook and I…

AWS Outage – Why We Need More Cloud Computing Providers

On February 28, 2017, a major outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, caused by human error, disrupted over 600,000 websites and services reliant on the platform, including high-profile companies like…

How to Fix ERR_SSL_OBSOLETE_VERSION Warning Notifications in Chrome

Google Chrome has deprecated support for outdated TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols, starting with Chrome 72, to enhance security and performance. By Chrome 79, sites using these legacy protocols trigger …

4 Ways to Fix the “Failed to Load Resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT” Error

How to Create a YouTube Channel (Step-by-Step Tutorial)

Shareaholic Review: A Suite of Audience-Engaging WordPress Tools

Shareaholic is a WordPress plugin and service offering a modular suite of tools for audience engagement and monetization, distinct from typical social sharing plugins by bundling multiple features int…

How to Add A Record with Namecheap

Namecheap has updated its DNS management process to allow users to add an A record for domains or subdomains pointing to Kinsta’s managed WordPress hosting. The change requires users to log into their…

Building Custom Gutenberg Blocks: The Definitive Block Development Tutorial

What Is an SVG File (And How do You Upload SVGs to WordPress)?

What Is cPanel? The Control Dashboard Explained for Beginners

How to Change GoDaddy Nameservers

GoDaddy users can now change their domain nameservers to point to Kinsta’s premium DNS service, enabling seamless integration with Kinsta’s managed WordPress hosting. The process involves accessing Go…

How to Easily Clone Your WordPress Site

Kinsta introduced a new one-click cloning feature for WordPress sites, enabling users to duplicate entire sites—including databases and files—directly from the MyKinsta dashboard or via API. The featu…

DDoS Attacks Explained: Causes, Effects, and How to Protect Your Site

What Is a Zero-Day Exploit? And Why Are They Dangerous?

Zero-day exploits—previously undiscovered security flaws in software or hardware—pose severe, immediate threats to all organizations, as hackers can exploit them before developers have time to patch v…

How Do I View My Access and WordPress Error Logs?

The article explains how to view WordPress error and access logs using Kinsta’s managed hosting platform. It details five methods: accessing logs via the MyKinsta dashboard, downloading raw log files …

How to build PHP-only Gutenberg blocks

WordPress development has taken a significant step forward with the introduction of PHP-only Gutenberg blocks, eliminating the long-standing requirement for React and Node.js expertise to build custom…

How to Add an A Record with GoDaddy

This article provides a step-by-step guide for GoDaddy domain owners on how to add or edit an A record to point their domain to Kinsta’s managed WordPress hosting. The process involves copying the sit…

The Developer’s Guide to Start Using SSH (Connect to Your Server Securely)

PHP 8.5 is now available to Kinsta customers

PHP 8.5 is now available to Kinsta customers on its Managed Hosting for WordPress platform, following its general release in November. Users can upgrade via the MyKinsta dashboard or Kinsta API, with …

Google AMP Case Study – Leads Dropped by 59% (How to Disable It)

Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting provider, has published a case study detailing its decision to disable Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) on its blog after testing it for two months. The compan…

20 Work from Home Security Tips to Protect Your Data

13 Solid Ecommerce Strategies to Skyrocket Sales During the Holiday Season

Ecommerce sales are surging during holiday seasons, with online Black Friday sales reaching $9.12 billion in 2022 and US retail ecommerce spending rising 3.5% year-over-year to $211.70 billion in Nove…

PHP Thread Recommendations for eCommerce and Membership Sites

Kinsta now explicitly recommends against running highly dynamic eCommerce or membership sites on hosting plans with only 2 PHP threads due to performance limitations. Sites with uncached content (e.g.…

27 Popular SSH Commands for WordPress Users to Start Using

This article provides a comprehensive guide to using SSH (Secure Shell) commands with WordPress, emphasizing the security and efficiency benefits of this protocol for managing WordPress sites. The mos…

What Is Cached Data? Explore 3 Easy Ways to Clear It

Advanced Custom Fields Tutorial: Your Ultimate Guide

The article provides a comprehensive guide to Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), a popular freemium WordPress plugin that simplifies the creation, management, and display of custom fields in WordPress. The…

19 Splendid Photography Websites (And How to Build Your Own)

How to Properly Run a Website Speed Test (You’re Doing it Wrong)

How to Embed a Google Form on Your WordPress Site (3 Easy Steps)

Kinsta published a step-by-step guide explaining how to embed Google Forms on WordPress sites using HTML embed codes, highlighting benefits like avoiding plugin bloat and enabling cross-platform form …

Building Efficient WordPress Queries with WP_Query

Kinsta published a guide on optimizing WordPress queries using WP_Query to improve performance for large-scale sites. Key changes include disabling SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS (via no_found_rows=true) to redu…

Important Changes – Disqus Ads Are No Longer Free to Disable

Disqus began charging a $10/month fee to remove advertisements from its WordPress comment system in March 2017, a change that reverses a decade-long free policy. The new pricing applies at the organiz…

Application Development

The webpage is a content hub focused on application development, primarily targeting developers using frameworks like Node.js, React, Vue.js, Laravel, and Angular. It highlights Kinsta’s role in hosti…

How to Know if Your Phone Is Hacked (and How You Can Avoid It)

Types of Malware: Learn How to Protect Yourself Better

10 Best FTP Clients for WordPress Users (Mac and Windows)

The article provides a comprehensive review of the top nine FTP (File Transfer Protocol) clients for WordPress users, focusing on their features, compatibility, and pricing. The most significant chang…

Why You Might Need a WordPress DevOps Team

The article argues that traditional, periodic update models for WordPress sites are outdated, particularly as the platform’s constant updates to core, plugins, and themes demand a more agile approach.…

How to Choose a Domain Name (8 Tips to Stand Out)

The article provides eight strategic tips for selecting an effective domain name in a highly competitive digital landscape where nearly 332.4 million domains are already registered. The most critical …

WP-CLI v2 – Managing WordPress From the Terminal

WP-CLI v2, released on August 8, 2018, marks a significant evolution in WordPress management by transitioning from a simple command-line tool to a robust, developer-focused solution. The update introd…

How to Optimize the Critical Rendering Path in WordPress

The article explains the Critical Rendering Path (CRP), the sequence of browser tasks required to render a webpage, and provides optimization strategies to improve page load performance, particularly …

How to Edit Your Hosts File – Preview Site Before Updating DNS

The article explains how to edit a computer’s hosts file to manually map a domain to an IP address, bypassing DNS for website previews during migrations. The most critical change highlighted is Kinsta…

How to Set Up Autoptimize for Your WordPress Site

Autoptimize, a free WordPress optimization plugin, has updated its settings to enhance performance and page speed for WordPress sites. The plugin focuses on optimizing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files,…

Ecommerce Statistics You Must Know (Chatbots, Voice, Omni-Channel Marketing)

By 2040, 95% of purchases are projected to occur online, with global ecommerce sales expected to reach $5.5 trillion by 2022, more than doubling 2017’s $2.3 trillion. Millennials and Gen Xers dominate…

How to distinguish traffic from bots to identify real visits, helpful bots, and harmful attacks

Automated traffic now dominates the modern web, with bots accounting for 51% of all web requests in 2024—a historic shift where non-human activity surpasses human visits for the first time in a decade…

How to Get a Professional Email Address With a Custom Domain

Kinsta published a guide on creating professional email addresses with custom domains, emphasizing the importance of branded email for credibility in business communications. It highlights that 90% of…

How to Add an A Record and CNAME at Bluehost

How to Use SFTP to Connect to Your WordPress Site

What Is DNS? Domain Name System Explained

Content Scraping: Fight Back or Ignore?

Kinsta details how content scraping farms steal and republish original content without attribution, often using automated tools. While Google’s algorithm typically protects original publishers, scrape…

How to Find cPanel Bandwidth Usage

47 Calligraphy Fonts for Adding Style and Interest to Your Site

A Guide To HTTP And The WordPress HTTP API – Part 1

15 Best Google Fonts by the Numbers (Plus Tips on Using Them)

How SSL Works and Why It’s Important

What Is bbPress? How To Add A Forum To WordPress

bbPress is a free, open-source WordPress plugin designed to add lightweight forum functionality to WordPress sites. Originally launched in 2004 by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, it remains under…

How to Create a Membership Website (In 5 Steps)

The article explains how to build a membership website using platforms like WordPress, highlighting benefits such as monetization, lead generation, and improved engagement. It outlines five steps: ide…

Introducing WordPress 5.4 (Blocks, Features, New APIs)

WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” launched on March 31, 2020, introducing major block editor improvements, two new blocks (Social Icons and Buttons), and performance gains including a 14% loading time reductio…

How to Clean up Your wp_options Table and Autoloaded Data

The article explains how excessive autoloaded data in WordPress’s wp_options table can degrade site performance, particularly on older or large installations. Autoloaded data is information loaded on …

What Is HTTP/3 – Lowdown on the Fast New UDP-Based Protocol

HTTP/3, the third version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, has been adopted as an IETF Internet Draft and is expected to become an official standard after August 2021. Built on the UDP-based QUIC p…

A Look at the New Amazon Associates Link Builder for WordPress

Amazon has released the official *Amazon Associates Link Builder* plugin for WordPress, a free tool designed to simplify the integration of Amazon affiliate links into WordPress websites. Launched in …

What is a Pingback?

How to Fix “Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding Header” Warning

The article explains how to resolve the 'Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding Header' warning, which appears in tools like Pingdom, GTmetrix, or Google PageSpeed Insights. This HTTP header ensures browsers…

What’s New in WordPress 5.2 (Site Health and PHP Error Protection)

WordPress 5.2 ‘Jaco’ launched on May 7, 2019, introducing a new Site Health tool with status scoring and debug info pages to identify configuration and security issues. It also adds PHP error protecti…

How to Install a Wildcard SSL Certificate on Your WordPress Site

Google AMP – How to Implement it in WordPress

Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) has evolved significantly since its launch in October 2015, with its mobile-first approach now stabilizing after six months of rapid development. The core change …

What’s New In WordPress 4.7

What’s New in WordPress 5.7 (Lazy-Loading, HTTPS, UI Updates, New APIs, and Much More)

WordPress 5.7 adds significant block editor improvements, including block variation transformations, new APIs for developers, and UI enhancements like font size controls for List and Code blocks. It a…

OceanWP: Easily-Customizable and Blazing Fast WordPress Theme

How to Set up Sucuri Firewall (WAF) on Your WordPress Site

4 Best Incremental WordPress Backup Plugins (Save Space and Speed)

Kinsta published a guide recommending incremental WordPress backup plugins, emphasizing their space-saving and performance benefits. The article contrasts plugin-based backups with Kinsta’s built-in h…

How modern block themes are changing WordPress hosting

Block themes in WordPress are reshaping hosting requirements by shifting performance bottlenecks from static file processing to dynamic, runtime rendering. Unlike classic themes that rely on PHP templ…

The Do’s and Don’ts for Hosting WordPress Membership Sites

WordPress membership and community sites face unique hosting challenges due to their dynamic, high-traffic nature, requiring specialized infrastructure to avoid performance issues like 500 errors, dow…

How to set up custom MyKinsta notifications with the Kinsta API to catch issues before they impact users

Kinsta has introduced customizable notification capabilities for its MyKinsta dashboard and API, enabling users to proactively monitor and address critical website issues before they impact performanc…

8 Easy Ways to Check Disk Usage in WordPress (Find Large Files & Data)

Kinsta published a guide on eight methods to check disk usage in WordPress, focusing on identifying large files and database bloat. The article highlights that WordPress disk usage consists of server …

How to Add Google AdSense to WordPress (With Plugins and Manually)

RIP WordPress and HHVM – We’ve Had a Good Run

Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting provider, announced the end of support for HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) for WordPress sites, effective August 20, 2018. The decision stems from HHVM’s discontinuat…

How to Undo Changes in WordPress (Revisions, Autosaves, Snapshots)

How to Edit WordPress Code – HTML, CSS, PHP (Easy Guide)

Debugging WordPress Performance Issues: “Stuff Happens” Checklist

Kinsta published a troubleshooting guide detailing how a WordPress performance issue on one of its team member’s sites was resolved, highlighting the importance of uptime monitoring, diagnostic tools,…

How to Update the PHP Version of Your WordPress Site (Why You Should)

Kinsta announced it will remove unsupported PHP versions from its hosting platform when they reach end-of-life (EOL), aligning with PHP’s predictable release schedule where versions are maintained for…

How to Manually Update a WordPress Plugin

The article explains how to manually update WordPress plugins when automatic updates fail, a capability introduced in WordPress 5.5 that allows uploading .zip packages directly from the dashboard. It …

How to Check Your WordPress Version (4 Methods)

The article explains four methods to check a WordPress site’s version, emphasizing the importance of keeping WordPress updated to prevent security vulnerabilities. It highlights that outdated WordPres…

How Much Disk Space Does Your Hosting Plan Really Need?

Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting provider, has published data-driven insights to help users accurately assess their disk space needs, challenging common overestimations in hosting plan selection. B…

How to Fix The ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS Error

How to Import Tumblr to WordPress (Quick and Easy)

Kinsta published a guide on migrating Tumblr blogs to WordPress, highlighting Tumblr’s decline (0.1% of websites) and WordPress’s dominance (43.5%). The post details a free WordPress plugin for import…

Medium vs WordPress: Where Should You Start a Blog?

How to Customize Your WordPress Theme (5 Step-by-Step Ways)

The article provides a comprehensive guide on customizing WordPress themes, emphasizing the importance of choosing the right method based on the desired outcome. The most critical change highlighted i…

76 Proven Tactics to Drive Traffic to Your Website

The article titled '76 Proven Tactics to Drive Traffic to Your Website' provides a comprehensive guide on strategies to increase website traffic, primarily through content marketing, email marketing, …

Intro to Building Websites with Gatsby and WordPress (Fast and Static)

The article introduces the integration of Gatsby, a static site generator built with ReactJS and powered by GraphQL, with WordPress to create faster, more secure, and cost-effective websites. The key …

How to Fix the 504 Gateway Timeout Error on Your Site

How to Configure Mailgun in WordPress to Send Emails

The article provides a step-by-step guide on configuring Mailgun, a transactional email API service, to send emails from WordPress. It highlights Mailgun’s free tier of 10,000 emails per month and low…

How to Upload an HTML File to WordPress (3 Effective Methods)

This guide explains three methods for uploading HTML files to WordPress, a capability that enhances customization beyond the platform’s built-in tools. The most critical change highlighted is the abil…

How To Add nofollow Links in WordPress

The article explains how to add `rel="nofollow"` attributes to links in WordPress using two methods: the Gutenberg editor and manual HTML editing in the Classic Editor. The `nofollow` attribute instru…

How to Reorder Posts in WordPress and WooCommerce

The article explains four methods to reorder posts in WordPress: changing publish dates, using WooCommerce's drag-and-drop sorting, installing the Post Types Order plugin, and custom code. It highligh…

Where and How to Hire a WordPress Developer

The article addresses the challenges of hiring skilled WordPress developers, highlighting the prevalence of unvetted platforms where low-quality providers undercut prices, leading to poor user experie…

Is WordPress secure? Here’s what the data says

Kinsta’s article reveals that WordPress core security has improved significantly, with only 0.2% of 2023 vulnerabilities affecting core software. However, 96.77% of new vulnerabilities stem from outda…

How to Disable the Gutenberg WordPress Editor (Need More Time)

How to Add Expires Headers in WordPress

Kinsta published a guide on adding Expires headers in WordPress to leverage browser caching and improve load times, which also impacts performance scores in tools like GTmetrix. The post explains the …

How to Boost Conversions on Your WooCommerce Product Pages

The article provides a comprehensive guide on optimizing WooCommerce product pages to improve conversion rates, emphasizing that high traffic without sales indicates a need for better page performance…

Django vs WordPress — Which Is Better for Your Website?

The article compares Django, a Python-based backend web framework, and WordPress, a PHP-based content management system (CMS), to help developers choose the right tool for their projects. Django, intr…

16 Fastest WordPress Themes (Based on Thorough Testing)

Kinsta published a performance-focused comparison of 16 WordPress themes, ranking them by speed using four standardized testing tools (GTmetrix, Pingdom, Google PageSpeed Insights, ByteCheck) on ident…

The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Directory Website with WordPress

Kinsta published a guide on creating a directory website using WordPress, detailing niche selection, SEO research, monetization strategies, branding, and technical setup. The guide emphasizes identify…

How To Change Your WordPress Username (Manually Or With A Plugin)

WordPress does not natively allow username changes, but users can now modify usernames using three methods: a free 'Username Changer' plugin, creating and deleting accounts, or directly editing the da…

How To Edit the Footer in WordPress Using Every Method Possible

The article provides a comprehensive guide on editing the footer in WordPress, emphasizing its importance and offering multiple methods to customize it. The most critical fact is that WordPress footer…

Google Docs to WordPress — 6 Tricks You Need to Know

The article highlights persistent challenges when transferring content from Google Docs to WordPress, particularly formatting issues, messy HTML code, and image handling problems that slow down conten…

Diving Deep Into the Latest Gutenberg WordPress Editor

The WordPress block editor, known as Gutenberg, has evolved significantly since its launch in December 2018 as part of WordPress 5.0. Initially introduced as a minimum viable product (MVP), Gutenberg …

Managing WordPress Development With Symlinks

The article explains how to use symlinks to share a single instance of WordPress plugins or themes across multiple installations, reducing maintenance overhead. It provides step-by-step commands for W…

How to Stop WordPress Registration Spam (Plugins and Tactics)

WordPress sites enabling public registration are highly vulnerable to spam registrations due to the platform’s popularity and the default registration page’s lack of robust protections. The article hi…

Manage hundreds of sites with Kinsta’s WP Admin auto-login

Kinsta has introduced a native WP Admin auto-login feature in its MyKinsta dashboard, designed to eliminate login friction for agencies managing multiple WordPress sites. The feature allows team membe…

How To Set Up a Reverse Proxy (Step-By-Steps for Nginx and Apache)

WordPress Permissions: Learn What They Are and Their Optimal Settings

How to Fix the WordPress Not Sending Emails Issue (+ Tips on How to Fix It with Most Used Contact Form Plugins)

Updating WooCommerce: A Safe and In-Depth Guide

The article provides a comprehensive guide on safely updating a WooCommerce store, emphasizing the critical importance of thorough testing before and after updates to avoid disruptions to functionalit…

How to clear WordPress cache (with plugins, hosting, and browsers)

The article explains how to clear the WordPress cache using four methods: caching plugins, hosting dashboards, browsers, and CDNs. Caching improves website speed by storing static versions of webpages…

How to scan WordPress for malware in 4 easy steps

WordPress sites face relentless malware threats, with approximately 90,000 attacks occurring every minute, making proactive security measures essential. Malware, defined as malicious software, can com…

30+ Best WooCommerce Themes to Dress Up Your Ecommerce Site

An In-Depth Look at the 7 Best WordPress Comment Plugins

The article provides an in-depth analysis of the seven best WordPress comment plugins, emphasizing the importance of comments for blog engagement, feedback, content ideas, SEO, and community building.…

Why You Should Stop Using Nulled WordPress Plugins and Themes

The article warns WordPress users against using nulled (pirated) plugins and themes, even though many are technically legal under the GPL license. It explains that nulled extensions—obtained from thir…

Wix vs WordPress: Which one should you choose to build a website?

Kinsta’s guide contrasts Wix’s beginner-friendly, hosted website builder with WordPress’s flexible, open-source platform. It highlights WordPress’s 59,000+ plugins, WooCommerce dominance, and full dat…

How to Improve WordPress Search (and Speed It Up)

The article highlights the critical limitations of WordPress’s native search functionality and provides actionable strategies to enhance it for better user experience and performance. The most importa…

A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Database: What It Is and How to Access It

This article provides a comprehensive beginner’s guide to understanding WordPress databases, emphasizing their critical role in storing and managing all site data, including content, user information,…

The Complete Guide to WordPress REST API Basics

6 Best WordPress Caching Plugins to Lower Page Load Time and Time to First Byte

Kinsta argues server-level caching is superior to WordPress caching plugins, citing a 23% page load time reduction and 80% lower TTFB without plugin overhead. The article lists six top caching plugins…

How To Set Up WordPress Multisite Domain Mapping

Kinsta released a detailed tutorial explaining how to set up domain mapping for WordPress Multisite networks, enabling users to point subsites to external domains. The guide covers installation, DNS c…

What is WordPress? Explained for beginners

WordPress remains the dominant content management system (CMS) powering over 43.5% of all websites globally, a statistic unchanged by this article. The piece explains WordPress as an open-source CMS l…

Database

The webpage is a content hub by Kinsta focused on database-related educational resources, tutorials, and guides. It aggregates articles covering MySQL, PostgreSQL, Adminer, and common database errors,…

WooCommerce vs Easy Digital Downloads: Which One Should You Use?

WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) are two leading WordPress plugins for eCommerce, each with distinct strengths and market positions. WooCommerce, acquired by Automattic for approximately $…

9 Best WordPress Audio Players to Share Audio Clips Professionally (And Reach More Listeners)

The article highlights nine WordPress audio player plugins designed to enhance the professional sharing of audio content, including music, podcasts, audiobooks, and radio broadcasts. The most signific…

Top 9 WordPress Quiz Plugins to Increase Engagement

WordPress quiz plugins are gaining traction as a tool to boost user engagement, mirroring the success of platforms like BuzzFeed and ESPN, which leverage quizzes to retain visitors and drive interacti…

5 WordPress Age Verification Plugins to Help You Add an Age Gate

The article reviews five WordPress plugins designed to add age verification gates to websites, catering to industries like alcohol, tobacco, and gambling where age restrictions are common. While age g…

9 WordPress Donation Plugins for Charity, Relief, and Support

WordPress is highlighted as an ideal platform for charities due to its open-source nature, scalability, and extensive ecosystem, including plugins like BuddyPress for community building. The article r…

How To Troubleshoot and Repair WordPress Database Issues

The article provides a step-by-step guide for diagnosing and repairing common WordPress database issues, including incorrect credentials, connection problems, PHP memory limits, corrupted tables, and …

How to Change Your WordPress Domain (Keeping SEO Benefits)

15 Best WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins (Compared With Examples)

What Is a WordPress Plugin?

How to Remove “Powered by WordPress”

How to Restore WordPress from a Backup (Easiest Methods)

Kinsta released a comprehensive guide explaining six methods to restore WordPress from backups, emphasizing their one-click restore features in MyKinsta. The post highlights Kinsta’s six backup types,…

6 Best WordPress Advertising Plugins To Increase Blog Revenue

Kinsta published a guide comparing six WordPress advertising plugins to help bloggers and publishers optimize ad revenue management. The article highlights tools like Ad Inserter, AdRotate, and Advanc…

How to Fix the Error: “The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet”

How to Create Beautiful WordPress Charts and Graphs

WordPress users can now create visually appealing and interactive charts and graphs directly within their sites using specialized plugins, eliminating the need for external tools like Excel. The artic…

WordPress Cookies and PHP Sessions – Everything You Need to Know

7 Best WordPress Ecommerce Plugins For Your Store

The article provides an in-depth comparison of the seven best WordPress ecommerce plugins, highlighting their features, use cases, and competitive advantages. The most significant change is the growin…

How to Use CAPTCHAs to Keep Bots and Spammers Off Your WordPress Site

How to Fix the “Sorry, You Are Not Allowed to Access This Page” Error in WordPress

Squarespace vs WordPress – Which One is Better? (Pros and Cons)

WordPress remains the dominant content management system (CMS) powering 43.5% of the world’s websites, but Squarespace has emerged as a strong alternative for beginners seeking simplicity. The key dif…

How to Uninstall a WordPress Plugin (the Proper Way)

WordPress plugin uninstallation often leaves behind database tables and files, causing performance degradation and increased disk usage over time. While users typically deactivate and delete plugins v…

The Ultimate Guide to Using WordPress Permalinks

How to Perform a WordPress Search and Replace (5 Methods)

How to Speed up WordPress Comments

WordPress comment sections, especially on high-traffic posts, can significantly slow down website performance due to server load, HTTP requests, and JavaScript resources. To address this, the article …

How to Easily Create Tables in WordPress with TablePress

TablePress, a popular WordPress plugin for creating and managing tables, has gained significant traction with over 700,000 active installs and a 5-star rating on WordPress.org. The plugin addresses Wo…

8 Lesser-Known (But Useful) WordPress Performance Plugins

WordPress performance optimization is increasingly critical as site speed directly impacts user experience and SEO rankings. Eight lesser-known plugins were highlighted to address common bottlenecks: …

How to Set up Private Pages and Posts in WordPress

WordPress private pages and posts restrict content visibility to administrators and editors by default, with optional password protection for broader access. Only these user roles can create or view p…

How to Edit CSS in WordPress (Edit, Add, and Customize How Your Site Looks)

Kinsta published a guide explaining how to edit, add, and customize CSS in WordPress to modify site appearance. The article details methods for direct theme file edits (via WordPress dashboard or FTP)…

36 Best WooCommerce Extensions to Enhance Your Online Store

WooCommerce, the free and open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress, relies on third-party extensions to add specialized features beyond its core functionality. These extensions, which can be found…

Integration Guide for WordPress Amazon S3 and CDN

Kinsta published a guide on integrating WordPress with Amazon S3 for storage and optional CDN use, reducing bandwidth costs and improving site speed. The integration uses the free WP Offload S3 Lite p…

13 Best WordPress Database Plugins (Clean and Optimize Your DB)

How to Add Schema Markup to WordPress and WooCommerce Sites (SEO Plugins vs Manually)

How to Fix “Your PHP Installation Appears to Be Missing the MySQL Extension Which Is Required by WordPress” Error

Five Great WordPress A/B Testing Tools to Optimize Conversion Rates

Pingdom Speed Test Tool: Ultimate Guide

How To Create and Modify a WordPress Cron Job

WordPress Pagination: How to Add Pagination Manually or With Plugins

The article explains WordPress pagination, its benefits for navigation, performance, and SEO, and provides methods to control it manually via code or plugins. It highlights seven popular pagination pl…

How To Fix WooCommerce Performance Issues Using Kinsta APM (Real-World Examples)

Kinsta introduced Kinsta APM, an application performance monitoring tool tailored for WordPress and WooCommerce stores hosted on Kinsta. The tool helps identify performance bottlenecks, particularly s…

How to Fix the “Upload: Failed to Write File to Disk” Error in WordPress

WordPress users may encounter the 'Upload: Failed to Write File to Disk' error due to incorrect file permissions, a full temporary folder, or exhausted disk space. Fixes include adjusting uploads dire…

WordPress GIFs – How to Use Them On Your Website

WordPress Google Maps Guide: Embed With or Without a Plugin

As of June 11, 2018, Google Maps now requires an API key for embedding maps on WordPress sites, a change that affects all users previously relying on unkeyed embeds. This requirement impacts both manu…

How to Use WordPress IFTTT Recipes to Automate Your Workflow

IFTTT now supports WordPress integration, enabling users to automate workflows between WordPress and over 500 other services using applets. WordPress users can reduce plugin dependencies, enhance auto…

How to Use WordPress Icon Fonts the Right Way (Better Performance)

WordPress icon fonts have evolved from inefficient sprites to scalable web fonts, with Font Awesome and Dashicons emerging as popular solutions. The article highlights three implementation methods: pl…

The Complete Guide to the WordPress Media Library (4 Handy Media Library Hacks Included)

WordPress Media Library is a core feature for storing and managing media files, but it has native limitations such as lack of WebP support, basic image editing, and no advanced file organization. The …

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How To Use the WordPress Register Sidebar Function

The article explains how to use WordPress’s `register_sidebar()` and `register_sidebars()` functions to create and manage sidebars in WordPress themes. It details the basic and advanced methods for re…

7 Great WordPress Slider Plugins for Captivating Websites

The article evaluates seven leading WordPress slider plugins, highlighting their features, pricing, and ideal use cases to help users select the best tool for their needs. The most significant change …

Using The WordPress HTTP API

The WordPress HTTP API simplifies making HTTP requests by providing a unified interface, eliminating the need for manual methods like cURL or file_get_contents. This API is particularly useful for int…

10 WordPress Instagram Plugins for Displaying Interactive Feeds

Troubleshooting WordPress Import Issues with XML, CSV, and WXR Files

Ultimate WordPress Multilingual Guide – How We Launched 10 Languages

Kinsta launched its WordPress site in 10 languages, achieving an 18% increase in organic traffic and attracting new global customers. The move leverages SEO advantages in less saturated non-English ma…

How to Configure Jetpack for Your WordPress Site

Jetpack, an all-in-one WordPress plugin developed by Automattic, remains a polarizing tool among WordPress users due to its extensive but often criticized feature set. The plugin, with over 5 million …

WordPress Free vs Paid Themes: Which is Right for Your Next Project?

The article compares free and paid WordPress themes, emphasizing that while free themes are accessible and cost-effective for beginners, they often lack advanced functionality, security, and customiza…

Meet Kinsta at Digital Summit Tampa

Kinsta will sponsor and participate in Digital Summit Tampa 2026, an event for marketing professionals and industry leaders held at the Hilton Tampa Downtown on March 17-18, 2026. The company will hos…

Top 9 WordPress Forum Plugins for Discussing Hot Topics

Kinsta published a roundup of the top 9 WordPress forum plugins, highlighting their features, pricing, and use cases for building community-driven websites. The article compares lightweight options li…

WordPress Google Cloud Storage – How to Offload Your Media

Kinsta published a guide on offloading WordPress media to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) to reduce disk space usage, leveraging GCS's lower storage costs compared to traditional WordPress hosting. The art…

A Deeper Look Into the WordPress Text Editor

The article explains the WordPress text editor, highlighting its HTML-focused functionality and control over post content structure. It details developer tools like the Quicktags JS API, `quicktags_se…

How to Fix the WordPress Updating Failed and Publishing Failed Errors

How to Find Your WordPress Login URL (Change It, Lock It Down)

How to Embed iFrame Code on Your WordPress Site (Manually and with Plugins)

Kinsta published a guide explaining how to embed iFrames in WordPress manually, via embed codes, or using plugins like iFrame and Advanced iFrame. The article highlights iFrames as a legal and perform…

How To Add WordPress Image Captions

This guide explains how to add, edit, and customize image captions in WordPress, covering multiple methods across different editors (Block Editor, Classic Editor) and contexts (single images, gallerie…

How to Add a WordPress Favicon to Your Site (3 Easy Options)

Kinsta published a guide explaining how to add a WordPress favicon, emphasizing its role in branding, UX, and professionalism. The article details three methods: using WordPress’s built-in Customizer …

How to Fix the WordPress max_execution_time Fatal Error

WordPress get_posts: How to Use This Useful PHP Function to Build Lists of Posts

The article provides a comprehensive guide on using WordPress's `get_posts` function, a PHP-based tool for developers to retrieve and display lists of posts, pages, or custom post types from the WordP…

How to Fix WordPress Stuck in Maintenance Mode

WordPress sites can get stuck in maintenance mode due to a hidden '.maintenance' file created during automatic updates, which persists if the update process fails. This issue affects WordPress site ow…

65+ WordPress Keyboard Shortcuts for Writing, Gutenberg + More

WordPress keyboard shortcuts significantly enhance productivity by allowing users to perform tasks without switching between keyboard and mouse. The article introduces over 65 shortcuts for the WordPr…

What Are WordPress Tags? WordPress Tags Explained

WordPress tags are optional, non-hierarchical taxonomies used to categorize posts, unlike mandatory hierarchical categories. Tags enable visitors to find related content but can create duplicate conte…

Best WordPress Mobile Plugins – Comparing the Top 7

How To Resolve the WordPress Memory Limit Error (2 Methods)

Kinsta published a guide explaining WordPress PHP memory limit errors, their causes, and two resolution methods: upgrading to quality WordPress hosting or manually increasing the memory limit via wp-c…

WordPress Sitemap Guide: What It Is and How to Use It

WordPress XML sitemaps are a critical but often misunderstood tool for improving a website’s search engine optimization (SEO). An XML sitemap is a structured list of URLs that helps search engines lik…

130+ WordPress Site Examples of Big Brands

WordPress now powers over 43.5% of all websites globally, with enterprise adoption accelerating as 62% of the top 100 fastest-growing US companies (Inc. 5000) use the platform. The article highlights …

Does Kinsta offer PCI compliant hosting?

How to Use Google Analytics (Setup, Reports, Attribution Models, and More)

Cloud Market Share: A Look at the Cloud Ecosystem

Looking Back at 2017 – Kinsta Year in Review

Kinsta migrated from Google Cloud to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and expanded its infrastructure by adding 10 new data centers, bringing the total to 13. The company also launched new entry-tier…

The most important things you should know about Kinsta

Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting provider, emphasizes its performance-first cloud infrastructure, offering 27 global data centers and a proprietary architecture using isolated LXC containers for ea…

How to Fix a 500 Internal Server Error on Your Site