WordPress Toolkit:

With systems such as WordPress, it is very important that the system and all plugins used are kept up to date. On the one hand, this is necessary for security reasons, and on the other hand, the GDPR also stipulates that systems must be kept up to date.

You can carry out these updates manually via the toolkit.

However, you can also configure whether WordPress and/or plugins and themes used should be updated fully automatically.

While automatic updates for the WordPress system itself are generally a good idea and rarely lead to problems, with plugins or themes it very much depends on which ones are used.

More details in the following video.

The security of a website should always be a top priority. The WordPress Toolkit helps you to check and improve the security of your WordPress installation.

The speed of a website is an important factor in search engine optimization. But visitors to the website also enjoy fast pages. Especially in the e-commerce sector, performance is a key factor that determines the success or failure of a website.

With cloud hosting, you can improve the performance of your website by activating ngnix caching.

If you are developing a new website and are not yet finished with it, you should ensure that the website is not publicly accessible. In this way, you can also prevent unfinished content from being indexed by search engines.

Copies of the live site, which you can create with the WordPress Toolkit (see video below), should also not be publicly available.

With cloud hosting, you can provide the entire website with additional password protection with just a few clicks. The frontend and backend can then only be accessed after entering a user name/password combination.

The functional scope of WordPress can be extended quite easily with so-called plugins. These can be installed, activated, deactivated and uninstalled directly in the backend, but also via the toolkit.

Tip: try to keep the number of plugins used as low as possible. Every additional plugin installed is a potential security risk and can also impair the performance of the website.

Plugins that are no longer used should also be uninstalled.

You can also use the WordPress Toolkit to install WordPress themes to change the appearance of the website in the frontend. You can also uninstall themes that are no longer required.

The same applies here: for security reasons, you should uninstall themes that are no longer required, as a theme can also pose a potential security risk.

With just a few mouse clicks, you can use the WordPress Toolkit to create a complete 1:1 copy of your website on another domain or subdomain. This allows you to safely test new plugins or themes in a duplicate of the website before you decide to incorporate these changes into the live site.

Tip: if you do not want the duplicate to be publicly accessible or if you want to prevent indexing by search engines, protect this installation with additional password protection.

You can also very easily exchange data between two WordPress installations.

Example of use:

• You create a duplicate of your live site using the "Clone" function
• You install a new plugin in the duplicate to test its functions and perhaps also create new pages, articles or data records for this plugin
• If you like it, you can then use the "Copy data" function to transfer files and/or database entries from the test installation to the live installation.

Before you make major changes to a live website, such as plugin updates or the installation of new plugins or themes, you should ensure that there is an up-to-date backup of the installation.

In addition to the Backup Manager, which performs regular backups of the entire hosting package, you can use the "Backup/Restore" function of the WordPress Toolkit to manually create a backup of the WordPress installation and, if necessary, restore the website from this backup.

You can activate a so-called "maintenance mode" via the WordPress Toolkit. This does not change the WordPress installation, but visitors to the site will only see a text that can indicate maintenance work, for example.

You can edit the text and the appearance of this maintenance page using the WordPress Toolkit. Optionally, you can also display a countdown so that your visitors know how long the website will be unavailable.

Disadvantage of the maintenance mode: the WordPress backend is also not accessible when this mode is active.

Just as easily as you can install a WordPress website with the help of the WordPress Toolkit, you can also delete this installation again. During the deletion process, you can decide whether to delete the database as well as the files.