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Learn how to get started with Boost, from managing the BigScoots Cache plugin and accessing Cloudflare Enterprise settings to answering common performance questions.

Getting Started with Boost

If your site slows down or crashes right after you send an email campaign, it is likely being flooded by automated security scans (Link Detonation) that act like thousands of…

Why My Site Slows Down After Sending an Email Newsletter

Zach A.

Justin Catello

Baber Khan

Guides, tools and tips for all things WordPress

Managed WordPress Optimized Hosting (WPO)

WPO: Change an existing domain name

This article will provide a step-by-step guide on how to adjust your WordPress Automatic Updates settings.

WPO: How to Change 'WordPress Automatic Updates' Settings

Clearing ALL cache for your WordPress site on the WPO plan

WPO: Clear Site Cache

This article will show you how to create your staging site from start to finish and provides some general information.

WPO: Creating your Staging site

A step-by-step guide for removing a domain from your WPO dashboard.

WPO: Removing a Domain (Site/Staging)

Information regarding the costs and setup of an addon site

WPO: Site Addon

Locate, restore, download, and create backups

WPO: How to Manage Site Backups

Learn what that white pop-up asking for a username and password is, and how you can enable or disable it on your Live and Staging sites.

WPO: Site Lock Prompt

Learn how you can change the PHP version for your website to PHP 8.x or later.

WPO: How to change the PHP version

Learn how to set up an additional layer of security for your WordPress admin page.

WPO: WordPress Admin Page Lock

Resolve file permission issues quickly from inside WPO. Common causes: Failure to update themes, failure to update plugins, etc

WPO: Fix file permissions from your WPO Panel

A simple guide to add page-to-page redirects within the BigScoots WPO Portal.

WPO: Page-to-Page Redirect Examples

This article will guide you on how to bulk import Redirects from a TXT file.

WPO: Bulk Import Page-to-Page
Redirects

This article will guide users on how to easily change the WordPress theme on their websites.

WPO: Change WordPress theme

This article will help you to troubleshoot a problem that may appear after a WordPress update in WPO

WPO: How to Remove the Maintenance Page in WordPress

A step-by-step guide to viewing your PHP error logs from the WPO dashboard.

WPO: How to View PHP Error Logs

A step-by-step guide to creating a support ticket from your WPO dashboard.

WPO: How to Create a Support Ticket

A step-by-step guide to renaming your WPO service and changing its color in your BigScoots dashboard.

WPO: Change Service Name and Color

A step-by-step guide to identifying and fixing plugin vulnerabilities from your WPO dashboard.

WPO: How to Identify and Fix Plugin Vulnerabilities

A step-by-step guide to backing up and restoring MySQL databases using phpMyAdmin in your WPO portal.

WPO: How to Backup or Restore MySQL Databases Using phpMyAdmin

A step-by-step guide to update, deactivate and uninstall plugins using WPO portal.

WPO: How to update, deactivate and uninstall plugins

A step-by-step guide on how to block and unblock a public IP from the WPO portal.

WPO: How to Block a Public IP

A step-by-step guide on how to issue an SSL certificate for your domain using the WPO portal.

WPO: How to Issue SSL for a Domain

A step-by-step guide on how to set up a redirect from one domain to another using page rules.

WPO: Setting up a wildcard redirect for your domain

A step-by-step guide to creating and managing your WordPress admin users

WPO: Accessing your Wordpress Dashboard

Scott

Portal WordPress Management

How to validate your domain in kit using BigScoots WPO Portal

WPO: Validate your domain in kit

How to verify your domain in Flodesk using WPO

WPO: Verify your custom domain with Flodesk

WPO: Add DMARC Record

How to add the 'google-site-verification' DNS record to verify domain ownership for Google Search Console using the WPO DNS tab

WPO: Verify domain ownership for Google Search Console via DNS record

How do I add Pinterest verification to my website?

WPO: Claim Pinterest website via DNS TXT Record

Create a custom domain for ActiveCampaign

WPO: ActiveCampaign - Custom Domain

Adding your SPF/DKIM/DMARC records with ActiveCampaign

WPO: ActiveCampaign - Authentication with SPF/DKIM/DMARC

How to verify, authenticate your domain with Mailerlite Classic

WPO: Mailerlite(Classic) - How to authenticate your domain

WPO: Mailerlite(NEW) - How to authenticate your domain

Portal DNS

A step-by-step guide for setting up your WPO email on Outlook.

WPO: Setup BigScoots Email on Outlook

How to setup and configure your Big Scoots email account on your iPhone / iOS device.

WPO: Configuring email on an iPhone

How to setup and configure your BigScoots email account on Mac Mail.

WPO: Setup BigScoots email on Mac Mail

A video walk through and troubleshooting steps to setting up your Managed WordPress WPO email on an Android device

WPO: Setup Email on Android

A video walk through and troubleshooting steps to setting up your Managed WordPress WPO email on an iPhone

WPO: Setup Email on iPhone

Improve email deliverability with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Records

WPO: Email Deliverability Tool

This article will guide you through the steps to set up BigScoots SMTP on your website.

WPO: How to install BigScoots SMTP

A step-by-step guide to creating an email account in WPO and migrating it from your old hosting.

WPO: How to Migrate Your Email from Old Hosting

A step-by-step guide on how to set up email forwarders in your WPO portal.

WPO: Setting up Email Forwarders

Update Gmail Settings for BigScoots Email

A step-by-step guide on how to access your webmail hosted on BigScoots WPO.

WPO: How to Access Webmail

A step-by-step guide on how to configure your BigScoots email SMTP settings in Gmail for outgoing emails.

WPO: Update Gmail Settings for BigScoots WPO Mail (SMTP)

Portal Email

Locating, creating new and editing FTP details for managed WP hosting

WPO: FTP Details

Portal FTP

This guide will walk you through the process of accessing your BigScoots server via SSH using SSH keys.

WPO: How to Set Up SSH Keys

This guide will help you access your server through WPO using PuTTY for SSH connections.

WPO: Access the Server via SSH via PuTTY

Create SSH keys using PuTTY, a popular SSH client to allow secure and also quicker access to your server.

WPO: Generate SSH Keys using PuTTY

This guide will walk you through the process of accessing your BigScoots server via SSH using SSH keys using Windows Terminal.

WPO: Accessing the Server via SSH Using Windows Terminal

Portal SSH

A step-by-step guide on how to migrate your WordPress website using the BigScoots Migrator plugin.

WPO: Website Migration Using BigScoots Migrator

Asher Anwer

Migration

How to improve your Google Core Web Vitals CWV with BigScoots suggestions

Improving Google Core Web Vitals(CWV)

Learn more about WordPress Performance Package through our FAQs

FAQs: Performance Package for Wordpress

Learn about Cloudflare Font Optimization with ease through our FAQs

FAQs: Cloudflare Font Optimization

Understanding the root cause behind INP issues and how to improve it

Understanding & Optimizing Interaction to Next Paint (INP)

Saumya Majumder

Optimization

Image Optimization & Webp

Page(HTML) Caching

Depending on your website requirement, now you can easily fine-tune your Cloudflare Enterprise settings

WPO: Fine-tuning your Cloudflare Enterprise settings

Take a look at the default list of marketing query params that are ignored by default

Ignored Marketing Query Params List — BigScoots Cache

Protect your site from scrapers, crawlers, and malicious actors by leveraging the proprietary BigScoots Bad Bot Fighter mode.

Safeguard Your Website with BigScoots Bad Bot Fighter

Cloudflare Enterprise

Comparing different types of traffic data and what counts as a "visit".

WPO: Traffic Statistics

How to setup Cloudflare Turnstile on your website

A step-by-step guide on how to embed a YouTube video in your website

WPO: Embed YouTube videos on your website

WPO: How to clean (reinstall) a wordpress site after being hacked

A step-by-step guide to blocking AI crawler bots like ChatGPT and Bard using Cloudflare settings in the WPO portal.

WPO: How to Block AI Crawler Bots Using Cloudflare

By default, the Brave browser will produce errors when trying to login to WPO. Learn how to fix it here.

WPO: Brave Browser Compatibility

Miscellaneous

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