The pro­duc­tion Word­Press servers are locked down, secure environments.

Web Devel­op­ment Ser­vices tests all themes and plu­g­ins for secu­rity prob­lems, com­pat­i­bil­ity prob­lems, user expe­ri­ence issues, and per­for­mance issues before deploy­ing them to the live servers.

With over 16,000 plu­g­ins and 1,400 themes on WordPress.org alone, not all of them play nicely with each other or with the lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press. Not all are designed for a mul­ti­site envi­ron­ment, and some can kill per­for­mance on high traf­fic servers.

Word­Press, itself, and all plu­g­ins and themes are uploaded to a sep­a­rate version-controlled repos­i­tory, then deployed via scripts to the QA and pro­duc­tion web servers. This allows us to roll back to a pre­vi­ous ver­sion of the envi­ron­ment with a sin­gle com­mand if we dis­cover a prob­lem­atic plu­gin or theme.

We tried to mimic many of WordPress.com’s fea­tures, and we have added many other plu­g­ins based on early feedback.

To sim­plify the inter­face for casual users, not all plu­g­ins are acti­vated across the net­work. Site admin­is­tra­tors can acti­vate cer­tain plu­g­ins just for their site. These include a Poll/Survey plu­gin, an FAQ plu­gin, and a LaTeX plugin.

We wel­come sug­ges­tions for added func­tion­al­ity and new themes to add to our Word­Press envi­ron­ment. Please use the Con­tact link above.

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