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Author : Luke Cavanagh

Luke Cavanagh, Strategic Support & Accelerant at Liquid Web, brings a decade of experience working with WordPress and WooCommerce to our product team. His GitHub page offers a glimpse into his multiple areas of subject matter expertise.

"Ninja stuff with WordPress and WooCommerce," is an apropos way to describe Luke's savviness with these platforms — and his way of influencing our organization for improving to them.

Coming out of the University of Brighton with a Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) Higher National Diploma (HND) in 2D & 3D Design, Luke's credentials prepared him well for his current role that blends both web development and design. His HND credential leveraged his foundational learning at West Kent College, where he received a National Diploma (ND) in Graphic Design.

In his personal life, Luke is a devoted husband and teen wrangler. He considers himself a Synthwave enthusiast, Jerry Goldsmith fan, and Doctor Who aficionado. He is happy to introduce his friends and teammates to essential vocabulary for life found only in British English, such as "gubbins" and similar terms.

April 23, 2024

By Luke Cavanagh

Supercharge your codebase — exploring the benefits and features of PHP 8.3

Adopting PHP 8.3 features for your application or CMS allows you to leverage these advancements to create faster, more secure, and maintainable web projects.

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php,version,website performance,building a website

February 16, 2024

By Luke Cavanagh

Start a hosting plan with a data center location strategy

A well-thought-out data center location strategy ensures optimal performance and reliability for websites. Nexcess has 10 global data center locations to pick from.

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data center,website performance,nexcess cloud hosting plans,site create,optimized hosting,wordpress or magento application server setups

November 09, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

Customizing WordPress with Must-Use plugins (mu-plugins)

Customizing WordPress features with Must-Use (MU) plugins empowers website owners to use filters, actions, and hooks to elevate the WordPress experience.

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WordPress plugin,plugin development,web applications,Managed Applications,nexcess web hosting

November 08, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

Fortify your web application security with Performance Shield

Bot-based threat and DDoS protection are just two of the many ways our Performance Shield add-on — powered by Cloudflare — improves web application security and speed.

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Performance,Security,nexcess cloud,Content Delivery Network,web applications

August 01, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

Website comparison tool — using our Visual Comparison feature

Before implementing any WordPress plugin changes, use a smart website comparison tool to visually show you how the future website will appear in comparison to the existing one.

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regression,updates,plugin,compare,visual,Nexcess,portal,WooCommerce,WordPress,optimized wordpress,wordpress maintenance,wordpress configuration,WordPress plugins,WordPress management,WordPress website development,WordPress hosting,website performance,Web design,Web development,nexcess client portal

July 31, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

Malware remediation service for managed WordPress/WooCommerce sites

Learn about the malware remediation service from Nexcess. Let us get your site back up and running fast. Our experts will keep your site running malware-free.

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Security,Performance,WordPress,WooCommerce,WordPress security,WooCommerce security,web applications,website performance,Web Hosting,nexcess web hosting,Nexcess,managed woocommerce,Managed WordPress,Managed Applications,Managed Hosting,website,wordpress site performance,WooCommerce Performance,safe

March 16, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

By Paul Stubblefield

How to configure the Nexcess CDN using the WordPress CDN Enabler by KeyCDN

At Nexcess, our hosting plans provide the WordPress CDN Enabler plugin by KeyCDN to facilitate the setup required to turn on your CDN in the context of your Nexcess-hosted website.

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plugin,enabler,Managed,WooCommerce,WordPress,Content Delivery Network,CDN,Nexcess,Performance,website performance

March 01, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

How to customize a WordPress site and the Nexcess MAPPS MU (must-use) plugin

Learn how to customize a WordPress site! Leverage the Nexcess MAPPS MU (must-use) plugin to enhance your site's performance, design, features, support, integrations, security, and revenue!

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what to do when wordpress plugin customization goes wrong,extending the nexcess mapps mu (must-use) plugin ,nexcess mapps mu (must-use) plugin behavior,customize your wordpress site,what is a plugin?,mapps mu plugin,licensed nexcess wordpress plugins ,how to customize the nexcess mapps mu (must-use) plugin,wp plugins,plugin development,woocommerce plugin,WordPress plugin,web applications,web,nexcess portal,plugin,Plugin performance monitor,wordpress plugin management

February 28, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

Nexcess-provided WordPress plugins for ecommerce and sites

Configured using the Nexcess Installer, our managed WordPress and managed WooCommerce hosting plans at Nexcess come with multiple WordPress plugins for ecommerce and sites.

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provided,Plugins,WooCommerce,WordPress,Managed,Nexcess,wordpress plugin management,woocommerce plugin,plugin updates,wp plugins,WordPress plugin,nexcess website hosting,building a website,nexcess installer,plugin

February 10, 2023

By Luke Cavanagh

Full page cache and Redis cache management using WP-CLI

Performing Redis cache and full page cache management from the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI) is a very efficient way to work fast for experienced WordPress site admins.

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Cache,wp-cli,WordPress fast full page cache,caching,caching plugins,wordpress site performance,WordPress,woocommerce setup,WooCommerce Performance,wp-cli wordpress,wordpress command line interface (wp-cli),wordpress command line interface,wordpress command line interface (wp-cli) option,redis,website performance,Performance

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