Nexcess Knowledge Base

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.

May 26, 2021

By Luke Cavanagh

How to Reset your Development Site Easily

Using the WP Reset plugin on your staging or development site will make it easy to reset or delete specific types of data in the site database and files on the site server.

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WooCommerce,WordPress,staging,Development,reset

May 26, 2021

By Luke Cavanagh

Speed Up Your WooCommerce Checkout with the Right Plugin

Learn how to speed up your WooCommerce checkout with the right plugin. WooFunnels and CheckoutWC are two easy-to-use plugin options to improve your checkout experience for customers.

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Plugins,checkout,fast,WordPress,WooCommerce

May 14, 2021

By Luke Cavanagh

How to configure the Nexcess CDN with WordPress and Swift Performance

Learn how to configure the Nexcess CDN with WordPress and the Swift Performance plugin.

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Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

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Performance,CDN,WooCommerce,WordPress

April 02, 2021

By Luke Cavanagh

How to Use Elasticsearch with WordPress & WooCommerce

Learn how to use Elasticsearch with the ElasticPress plugin to increase search speed. Read this article for Elasticsearch CLI commands, tips, and more.

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elasticsearch

March 29, 2021

By Luke Cavanagh

How to use the Nexcess Page Cache

Learn how to use the page caching features and settings. For example, the cache can be auto-cleared if any post type is published, updated, or trashed — or if a plugin is activated or deactivated.

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WooCommerce,WordPress,fpc,Cache,page,Nexcess

March 26, 2021

By Luke Cavanagh

How to check plan and site disk usage in the portal

Keep track of how much space is left on your plan. Finding out how much disk storage a site or all sites on a plan is taking can now all be viewed in the Nexcess Client Portal.

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WooCommerce,WordPress,Nexcess,storage,space,disk

March 02, 2021

By Luke Cavanagh

How to configure the Nexcess CDN with WordPress and WP Fastest Cache

Learn how to configure the Nexcess CDN with WordPress and WP Fastest Cache plugin.

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delivery,network,Nexcess,CDN,WooCommerce,WordPress,plugin

October 09, 2020

By Luke Cavanagh

Nexcess CDN Overage Billing

On Oct 8, 2020, Nexcess implemented monthly overage billing for the Nexcess CDN for any usage above the monthly free tier limit of 250 GB.

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Magento,WooCommerce,WordPress,billing,overage,CDN

September 22, 2020

By Luke Cavanagh

How to resolve CORS errors in Magento 2 multi-stores using a CDN

Learn how to resolve the “Cross-Origin Request Blocked” error that can be the result of a Magento 2 multi-store making use of a CDN. This is a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) type of error.

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cors,origin,cross,CDN,Nexcess,store,Magento

June 29, 2020

By Luke Cavanagh