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Ever since the introduction of blocks with WordPress 5.0, more platform functionality has been replaced by the easy-to-use blocks. To use the Cart block for WooCommerce, check out this article.

Nexcess clients on physical web servers (non-cloud) can subscribe to receive email notifications on bandwidth limits, disk usage limits, and SSL certificate expiration dates for their hosting plans.

In this guide we will cover the installation of Venia Storefront, the official PWA storefront — based on pwa-studio — and made in collaboration with Magento and the Magento community.

Nexcess Safe Harbor ensures your Magento 1 store is secure by providing patches, etc. Nexcess is PCI certified as a Level 1 Solution Provider, aiding merchants in their own PCI certification process.

Learn more about using DeployBot on the Nexcess website hosting platform. DeployBot makes it easy to deploy code and adds structure making it easier for a team to deploy website code changes.

One way to improve site load times is to set site assets, such as images, CSS files, and JS files to be cached in the browser. You can do this by adding expires headers in the site's .htaccess file.

The .htaccess file is a configuration file for the Apache Web Server (Apache HTTP Server). You can restrict IPs, allow IPs, establish redirection rules, and a lot more using the .htaccess file.

Qubely Pro is a premium plugin provided by Nexcess for free with your Managed WordPress/WooCommerce web hosting plan. This page builder plugin works with the Gutenberg block editor in WordPress.

If you have a site which sends important email, then it’s worth it to ensure that email is being delivered reliably using a transactional email provider such as Postmark for WordPress or others.

PHP 7 is the newest release of PHP, replacing PHP 5.6 (EOL) and lower. Managed WordPress and Managed WooCommerce hosting gives you an easy upgrade tool so that you can update your sites to PHP 7.