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Luke Cavanagh
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. Luke elicits "ideation" for new website management and ecommerce software needs. Then, he collaborates with the Liquid Web team in the development of next generation product features and wins.


With proficiency, Luke infuses the product roadmap with a curated vision of the next enhancements while quickly evolving the functional requirements to align with innovations in the industry. He brings structure to ambiguous situations. His professional acumen and precise communication style have won him respect among stakeholders and engineers alike. "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 is received a National Diploma (ND) in Graphic Design.


Prolific are Luke's contributions to our knowledge libraries that are available within the Liquid Web Family of Brands:

- Nexcess blog for the WordPress category

- Nexcess blog for the WooCommerce category

- Nexcess knowledge library for the WordPress category

- Nexcess knowledge library for the WooCommerce category

- Liquid Web blog for the WordPress category

- Liquid Web blog for the WooCommerce category

- Liquid Web knowledge library for the WordPress category

- Liquid Web knowledge library for the WooCommerce category


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.


July 01, 2022

Patch Applied in the di.xml file on Magento 2 Stores for MariaDB 10.5 Support

MariaDB 10.5 offers improved database performance for your Magneto 2 store. In June 2022, Nexcess enabled a patch to the di.xml file that was made to allow support for MariaDB 10.5.
May 12, 2022

WP Images: Regenerating WordPress Images with WP-CLI

WP Images: Regenerating WordPress Images with WP-CLI
The most common reason you would need to regenerate your image thumbnails for your media library on your site would be to add custom image sizes or change the image sizes in your theme for your WooCommerce Store
May 12, 2022

How to Log into the WP-Admin Panel & Improve Speed

How to Log into the WP-Admin Panel & Improve Speed
Typically, what causes the WordPress Admin Dashboard (wp-admin area) to be slow to load or parts of it to be slow are the plugins you are using on the site.
April 27, 2022

Comparing How to Keep Plugins Updated in WordPress

Managing plugins on WordPress is an important part of maintaining a site for functionality and security — at Nexcess there are several options available.
April 08, 2022

Nexcess Portal Navigation Improvements

The Nexcess Client Portal has been updated to make it easier to find key information in the navigational sidebar, which can be expanded using the Show More button. Also, you can search by keyword.
March 23, 2022

Set WordPress Maintenance Mode Using WP-CLI

Set WordPress Maintenance Mode Using WP-CLI
Enable maintenance mode on your site during scheduled maintenance and for other valid reasons using the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI) with ease.
March 17, 2022

WordPress Fixes: Troubleshooting WP-CLI Issues

WordPress Fixes: Troubleshooting WP-CLI Issues
Critical errors can be resolved by debugging your WordPress website, and those errors are often evidenced by the WP-CLI not being able to execute a command.
February 09, 2022

How Install and Setup Validar for WooCommerce

Setting up Validar for WooCommerce is very quick and painless if you are using Managed WordPress or Managed WooCommerce. You can install and activate the Validar plugin using the Nexcess Installer.
January 25, 2022

How to use the SliceWP Plugin on your WordPress Website

Nexcess has partnered with SliceWP to make it easy for you to start your own affiliate program. Here is a helpful guide on how you can get started with the SliceWP plugin on your WordPress website.
January 25, 2022

WordPress Database Size: Find WP DB Size with WP-CLI

Find your database size quickly using the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI)! The WP database size is at your fingertips, and here's how to find it!
Find your database size quickly using the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI)! The WP database size is at your fingertips, and here's how to find it!
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