Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post we are going to explore the use of :has() in your next web project. :has() is relatively newish but has gained popularity in the front end community by delivering control over various elements in your UI. Let’s take a look at what the pseudo class is and how we can utilize it.
Syntax
The :has() CSS pseudo-class helps style an element if any of the things we’re searching for inside it are found and accounted for. It’s like saying, “If there’s something specific inside this box, then style the box this way AND only this way.”
:has(<direct-selector>) {
/* ... */
}
“The functional :has() CSS pseudo-class represents an element if any of the relative selectors that are passed as an argument match at least one element when anchored against this element. This pseudo-class presents a way of selecting a parent element or a previous sibling element with respect to a reference element by taking a relative selector list as an argument.”
For a more robust explanation, MDN does it perfectly
The Styling Problem
In years past we had no way of styling a parent element based on a direct child of that parent with CSS or an element based on another element. In the chance we had to do that, we would need to use some JavaScript and toggle classes on/off based on the structure of the HTML. :has() solved that problem.
Let’s say that you have a heading level 1 element (h1) that is the title of a post or something of that nature on a blog list page, and then you have a heading level 2 (h2) that directly follows it. This h2 could be a sub-heading for the post. If that h2 is present, important, and directly after the h1, you might want to make that h1 stand out. Before you would have had to write a JS function.
This JS function is looking for all the h1’s that have a h2 proceeding it, and applying a class of highlight-content to make the h1 stand out as an important article.
New and improved with modern day CSS coming in hot! The capabilities of what we can do in the browser have come a long way. We now can take advantage of CSS to do things that we traditionally would have to do with JavaScript, not everything, but some things.
New School Way – CSS
h1:has(+ h2) {
color: blue;
}
Throw Some :has() On It!
Now you can use :has() to achieve the same thing that the JS function did. This CSS is checking for any h1 and using the sibling combinator checking for an h2 that immediately follows it, and adds the color of blue to the text. Below are a couple use cases of when :has() can come in handy.
:has Selector Example 1
HTML
<h1>Lorem, ipsum dolor.</h1>
<h2>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</h2>
<p>Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Eius, odio voluptatibus est vero iste ad?</p>
<h1>Lorem, ipsum dolor.</h1>
<h2>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</h2>
<p>Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Eius, odio voluptatibus est vero iste ad?</p>
<h1>This is a test</h1>
<p>Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Eius, odio voluptatibus est vero iste ad?</p>
CSS
h1:has(+ h2) {
color: blue;
}
:has Selector Example 2
A lot of times we as workers on the web are manipulating or working with images. We could be using tools that Cloudinary provides to make use of various transformations on our images, but usually we want to add drop shadows, border-radii, and captions (not to be confused with alternative text in an alt attribute).
The example below is using :has() to see if a figure or image has a figcaption element and if it does, it applies some background and a border radius to make the image stand out.
HTML
<section>
<figure>
<img src="https://placedog.net/500/280" alt="My aunt sally's dog is a golden retreiver." />
<figcaption>My Aunt Sally's Doggo</figcaption>
</figure>
</section>
Lol the last time I used it I was building keyboard functionality into a tree view, so I needed to detect states and classes of sibling elements, but it wasn’t in Firefox yet so I had to find another solution. 🫠
It is great to see how community members are using modern CSS to solve real world problems, and also a shout out to Abbey using it for accessibility reasons!
Things to Keep in Mind
There are a few key points to keep in mind when using :has() Bullet points referenced from MDN.
The pseudo-class takes on specificity of the most specific selector in its argument
If the :has() pseudo-class itself is not supported in a browser, the entire selector block will fail unless :has() is in a forgiving selector list, such as in :is() and :where()
The :has() pseudo-class cannot be nested within another :has()
Pseudo-elements are also not valid selectors within :has() and pseudo-elements are not valid anchors for :has()
Conclusion
Harnessing the power of CSS, including advanced features like the :has() pseudo-class, empowers us to craft exceptional web experiences. CSS’s strengths lie in its cascade and specificity…the best part, allowing us to leverage its full potential. By embracing the capabilities of CSS, we can drive web design and development forward, unlocking new possibilities and creating groundbreaking user interfaces.
Google Secret Manager is a cloud service where you can store sensitive data such as passwords, database credentials, encryption keys or any other confidential information that you don’t want to hardcode in your application’s source code. You can also set up an expiration time for the secret and the Google Secret Manager will automatically delete the secret after the specified time.
The following guide explains how you can use Google Apps Script to access secrets stored in the Google Secret Manager. But before we proceed, let’s first create a secret in the Google Secret Manager.
2. Go to the Library section of your Google Cloud project and enable the Secret Manager API.
3. Go to the IAM & Admin > IAM section of your Google Cloud. Click on Grant Access and add the Secret Manager Secret Accessor role to the Google account from which you want to access the secrets stored in the Google Secret Manager.
Create a Secret in Google Secret Manager
Now that you have enabled the Secret Manager API and granted access to your Google account, let’s create a new secret in the Google Secret Manager.
Go to the Secret Manager and click on the Create Secret button to create a new secret.
Give your secret a name and add the secret value - this could be a plain text string, or you can upload a binary file up to 64KB in size. If you would like the secret to expire after a certain time, you can set an expiration time for the secret.
In the above example, I have created a secret named MyBankPassword with the value MySuperSecretPassword. Google Secret Manager will automatically assign a version number (1) to the secret. You cannot change the secret value once it has been saved but you can create a new version of the secret with a different value.
Access Google Secret Manager from Google Apps Script
Now that you have created a secret in the Google Secret Manager, let’s write a Google Apps Script that will fetch the secret value from the Google Secret Manager.
Go to script.new to create a new Google Apps Script project. Go to the Project Settings and enable the Show appsscript.json manifest file in editor option. Switch to the appsscript.json tab and add the following OAuth scopes to the manifest file:
Next, add the following function to your Google Apps Script project. Replace the project_id, secret_id, and version_id variables with the actual values of your secret.
The project_id is the project number of your Google Cloud project and can be found in the Google Cloud Console here.
After you have added the function to your Google Apps Script project, run the main function to fetch the secret value from the Google Secret Manager and log it to the Google Apps Script Logger.
constmain=()=>{const project_id ='<<YourProjectId>>';const secret_id ='<<YourSecretId>>';const secret_value =getSecretValue_({ project_id, secret_id });
Logger.log('The secret value for %s is %s', secret_id, secret_value);};constgetSecretValue_=({ project_id, secret_id, version_id =1})=>{const endpoint =`projects/${project_id}/secrets/${secret_id}/versions/${version_id}:access`;const api =`https://secretmanager.googleapis.com/v1/${endpoint}`;const response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(api,{method:'GET',headers:{Authorization:`Bearer ${ScriptApp.getOAuthToken()}`,'Content-Type':'application/json',},muteHttpExceptions:true,});const{ error, payload }=JSON.parse(response.getContentText());// If there was an error, throw an exception// The secret may not exist or the user may not have access to itif(error){thrownewError(error.message);}// The secret value is Base64-encoded, so we need to decode itconst bytes = Utilities.base64Decode(payload.data);const base64 = bytes.map((byte)=>`%${byte.toString(16).padStart(2,'0')}`).join('');const secretValue =decodeURIComponent(base64);return secretValue;};
Do you want to restrict some of your WordPress content to registered or paid users?
Often, bloggers use subscriptions or one-time payment models to monetize content on their websites. This is easy to set up if you have the right WordPress plugin.
In this article, we will show you how to restrict content to registered users in WordPress.
Why Restrict Content to Registered Users?
If you are running a membership site or want to monetize your WordPress blog, then restricting content access is a great way to make money online.
You can lock specific pages and encourage users to subscribe to a premium plan to access the exclusive content.
For example, let’s say you have multiple guides on your site. You can turn them into an eBook and restrict that content to paying members only. Similarly, if you have a video section or online courses, then you can lock them for your paid subscribers.
Restricting content to registered users also helps build a community. You can set up a forum, a Facebook group, or a Discord server exclusively for members. This way, you can add more value for registered users.
That said, let’s look at how you can easily restrict content in WordPress for registered users. We will share 2 methods using a premium and a free plugin. You can click the links below to jump to your preferred method:
Method 1: Restrict Content to Registered Users Using MemberPress (Recommended)
The easiest way to lock content access is by creating memberships using the MemberPress plugin. It is the best membership plugin for WordPress and helps you make money by charging a one-time or recurring fee for exclusive content.
MemberPress is a premium plugin, and you will need at least the Basic plan to get started. WPBeginner users can enjoy up to 60% off by using our MemberPress coupon.
First, you will need to download and install the MemberPress plugin. If you need help, then please see our guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you will need to head to MemberPress » Settings from the WordPress dashboard and head to the ‘License’ tab.
From here, simply enter the license key and click the ‘Activate License Key’ button. You can find the key in your MemberPress account area.
After that, you will need to switch to the ‘Payments’ tab and add a payment gateway. Go ahead and click the ‘+ Add Payment Method’ button.
MemberPress works with many top payment providers like PayPal, Stripe, and Authorize.net.
Simply enter a name for your payment option and click the ‘Gateway’ dropdown menu to select a service.
Step 2: Create Membership Levels
Once you’ve connected a payment provider to MemberPress, the next step is to create different membership levels. With each membership, you can specify the level of access a user has for viewing restricted content.
To start, simply go to MemberPress » Memberships from the WordPress admin panel and click the ‘Add New’ button.
Next, you can enter a title for your new membership and add a description if you want.
In the right panel, you will see options for setting the price and expiration of your membership plan. For instance, you can select the billing type as recurring or one-time and choose the interval to be yearly, monthly, weekly, or custom.
After that, you can scroll down to the Membership Options meta box.
Here, you will see different options for editing the registration button text, customizing permissions, and other membership options.
Once you are satisfied with the membership level, simply click the ‘Publish’ button.
Now, go ahead and repeat these steps to create as many membership plans as you want.
Step 3: Restricting Content in WordPress for Registered Users
After setting up membership plans, the next step is to lock content on your site for registered users.
To start, you can head to the MemberPress » Rules page and then click the ‘Add New’ button.
On the next screen, you select the content to protect and set up conditions for accessing it.
First, you can click the dropdown menu under ‘Protected Content’ and pick the piece of content you want to restrict.
MemberPress offers multiple conditions to choose from. There is an option to protect all content, pages under certain categories or tags, a single post or page, and more.
If you want to restrict multiple pages, then you can create a category on your site, pick the ‘All Content with Category’ option, and choose multiple pieces of content to restrict.
Similarly, you can also add tags to specific pages and use the ‘All Content with Tag’ option in MemberPress to restrict access.
For the sake of this tutorial, we choose to protect a ‘A Single Page’ and then enter the title of the page.
Next, you will need to click the dropdown menu under ‘Access Conditions’ and select the ‘Membership’ option.
From here, MemberPress will ask you to select a membership level to allow access to the content.
You can also add multiple membership levels by clicking the ‘+’ icon under Access Content and selecting the memberships that can view your content.
Next, you can scroll down to the ‘MemberPress Unauthorized Access’ metabox.
Here, you will find options to show what logged-out or unregistered users will see when trying to view the content.
When you are done, you can simply scroll to the top.
From here, click the ‘Save Rule’ button.
You’ve now successfully restricted content for registered users on your WordPress website.
MemberPress also allows you to create a pricing page, redirect unregistered users to the pricing page, set up a login form, and much more.
Method 2: Lock Content to Registered Users Using Restrict Content (Free)
If you are looking for a free way to restrict content to registered users, then you can use the free plan of the Restrict Content Pro plugin.
To start, you will need to visit the Restrict Content Pro website and click the ‘Get Started’ button.
After that, you can sign up for a free account.
Simply click the ‘Get started’ button under the Free plan.
Next, you will see a popup window.
Go ahead and enter your email address and click the ‘Get Your Free Plugin’ button.
Once you click the button, you will receive an email from Restrict Content Pro with the download link for the free plugin.
From here, you can download the plugin and then install and activate it. If you need help, then please see our guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Step 1: Set Up the Restrict Content Plugin
Upon activation, you can head to Restrict » Settings from the WordPress admin panel and go to the ‘General’ tab.
Next, you need to select your registration, success, account management, edit profile page, and billing update pages.
After that, you must click on the ‘Payments’ tab to configure your payment gateway. You will be asked to choose a currency and then select your payment gateways.
For instance, you can click the ‘Connect with Stripe’ button and follow the onscreen instructions to configure the payment service.
Next, you can switch to the ‘Misc’ tab.
There are some important options available in this tab. You can set up login page redirects, disable account sharing, control form CSS, send IPN emails, and set up reCAPTCHA for registration forms to prevent spam registrations.
Step 2: Create Subscription Levels for Restricted Content
Now, we are ready to create subscription levels for your restricted content.
For example, you can create a subscription level ‘Premium‘ and set a price for it. When you are restricting content on your website, you will be able to choose the subscription level a user must have in order to access that content.
To get started, you can head to Restrict » Memberships Levels from the WordPress dashboard.
Creating a subscription level in Restrict Content Pro is simple. Simply give your subscription level a title, a description, and a price. You can set the price to zero if you want to create a subscription level for registered non-paying users.
You can choose the duration of a subscription level or set it to 0 to make the duration unlimited.
Lastly, you need to set the status to ‘Active’ and choose the ‘User Role‘ that will be assigned to people after signing up.
Once you are done, simply click the ‘Add Membership Level’ button.
You can now repeat this step to add as many membership levels as you want on your website.
Step 3: Lock Content for Registered Users
Now, you are ready to lock content for registered users. Go ahead and edit any post or page on your website.
In the content editor, scroll down to the ‘Restrict this content’ meta box. From here, click the dropdown menu under ‘Member access options’ and pick the ‘Members of membership level(s)’option.
After that, you will see multiple options.
Go ahead and choose the ‘Members of specific membership levels’ option and pick the membership level that can access this content.
That’s it. You’ve successfully locked content for registered users using the Restrict Content Pro plugin.
Bonus: Set Up Content Locking to Grow Your Email List
Content locking is a technique where users must take an action to view content. For instance, you can lock specific pages or guides and encourage people to sign up for your email newsletter or pay a fee to view the content.
The easiest way of setting up content locking in WordPress is by using OptinMonster. It is the best lead generation and conversion optimization software that helps you boost sales, grow your email list, and get more conversions.
OptinMonster offers prebuilt campaign templates and a drag-and-drop builder, making it super easy to customize your campaigns. It also has powerful display rules, which let you choose when and where the campaign will be displayed.
You can enable the Lock Content option from the Display Rules settings and choose whether to blur or remove the locked content.
Then, OptinMonster will restrict access to the blog post or landing page until a user performs the desired action, like entering their email address.
Private Sub DrawRays()
Dim StepX As Double
Dim StepY As Double
Dim VertX As Double
Dim VertY As Double
Dim HorizX As Double
Dim HorizY As Double
Dim MapX As Long
Dim MapY As Long
Dim HorizDist As Double
Dim VertDist As Double
Dim WallDistance As Double
Dim RayHeight As Double
Dim RayRadians As Double
Dim RadiansSteps As Double
Dim RayCount As Long
Dim RayCounts As Long
Dim OffSetGrid As Long
RayCount = imgverticalline.Width
MapX = Player.MapX
MapY = Player.MapY
RadiansSteps = Radian60 / RayCount
RayRadians = (Player.Radians - Radian30)
RayCounts = 0
Do While RayCounts < RayCount
If (RayRadians > Radian360) Then RayRadians = 0.001
'Check for horizontal intersections:
If RayRadians >= 0 And RayRadians <= Math.PI Then 'Facing down
HorizY = (Fix(player.PosY / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) + ObjectSize ' Calculate grid position
HorizX = player.PosX + (HorizY - player.PosY) / Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepY = ObjectSize
ElseIf RayRadians = 0 Or RayRadians = Math.PI Then
HorizY = player.PosY
HorizX = player.PosX
Else 'Facing Up
HorizY = (Fix(player.PosY / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) - 1
HorizX = player.PosX + (HorizY - player.PosY) / Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepY = -ObjectSize
End If
StepX = StepY / Math.Tan(RayRadians)
MapX = GetPositionMap(HorizX)
MapY = GetPositionMap(HorizY)
Do
If MapX < 0 Or MapX > 9 Or MapY < 0 Or MapY > 9 Then Exit Do
If levelmap0(MapY, MapX) = Color.Black Then Exit Do
HorizX = HorizX + StepX
HorizY = HorizY + StepY
MapX = GetPositionMap(HorizX)
MapY = GetPositionMap(HorizY)
Loop
HorizDist = Math.Abs((player.PosX - HorizX) / Math.Cos(RayRadians))
'Check for vertical intersections:
If RayRadians < Radian90 Or RayRadians > Radian270 Then 'Facing right
VertX = (Fix(Player.PosX / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) + ObjectSize ' Calculate grid position
VertY = player.PosY + (player.PosX - VertX) * -Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepX = ObjectSize
ElseIf RayRadians = Radian90 Or RayRadians = Radian270 Then
VertY = Player.PosY
VertX = Player.PosX
Else 'Facing left
VertX = (Fix(Player.PosX / ObjectSize) * ObjectSize) - 1
VertY = player.PosY + (player.PosX - VertX) * -Math.Tan(RayRadians)
StepX = -ObjectSize
End If
StepY = StepX * Math.Tan(RayRadians)
MapX = GetPositionMap(VertX)
MapY = GetPositionMap(VertY)
Do
If MapX < 0 Or MapX > 9 Or MapY < 0 Or MapY > 9 Then Exit Do
If levelmap0(MapY, MapX) = Color.Black Then Exit Do
VertX = VertX + StepX
VertY = VertY + StepY
MapX = GetPositionMap(VertX)
MapY = GetPositionMap(VertY)
Loop
VertDist = Math.Abs((player.PosX - VertX) / Math.Cos(RayRadians))
Dim VertColor As Color
If VertDist <= HorizDist Then
WallDistance = VertDist
OffSetGrid = VertY Mod ObjectSize
VertColor = Color.Aqua
Else
OffSetGrid = HorizX Mod ObjectSize
WallDistance = HorizDist
VertColor = Color.Blue
End If
WallDistance = WallDistance * Math.Cos(RayRadians - player.Radians) 'avoiding the Fish Effect
RayHeight = (ObjectSize / WallDistance) * 200 ' is the height screen\
If (OffSetGrid = ObjectSize) Then RayHeight -= 1
'picWall1.DrawTextureVerticalLine(A.MemoryHDC, OffSetGrid, Fix(RayHeight * 4), RayCounts, 5)
imgverticalline.ForeColor(RGB(VertColor.R, VertColor.G, VertColor.B))
imgverticalline.DrawLine(RayCounts, imgverticalline.Height / 2 - RayHeight \ 2, RayCounts, imgverticalline.Height / 2 + RayHeight \ 2)
RayRadians = RayRadians + RadiansSteps
RayCounts = RayCounts + 1
Loop
End Sub
Visual IVRs (Interactive Voice Response) combine traditional IVR technology with visual elements such as images, videos, and menus that make for a fast, user-friendly experience. In call centers where there’s a large volume of incoming calls and customer inquiries to handle, visual IVRs can help customers get their answers more […]
I went to a site that sells wood veneer slat paneling. They make a nice range of products and seem reputable. However, on completing my order I found that my payment options were limited to
shoppay
paypal
gpay
I have never seen a legitimate site that would not let me pay by credit card. There was a chat option and when I clicked on that it opened a chat window where I typed a question, and was immediately told to continue the chat on whatsapp. To do that I woud have to install a QR code reader on my phone, scan the given QR code, then install an app on my phone. Then link my phone to my laptop.
Or I could continue with the whatsapp web app. When I chose that I was immediately led down the rabbit hole again where I would have to install apps on my phone. Then link my phone to my laptop.
The only phone number provided was not a toll free number.
As a first time buyer I was offered a 10% discount on my first order. They emailed me the discount code. Entering the code on the purchase page did apply the discount. The email had an option of "if you have questions just reply to this email". When I did that I got "invalid recipient" and the email was never sent.
I've bought plenty of stuff from Amazon, and even from etsy. I never had this problem. This is not the way to run an online business.
We are often asked about using WordPress for enterprise websites. Is WordPress a good choice for enterprise?
An enterprise website typically refers to a large website with millions of page views. It may also refer to websites run by big-name brands or corporations.
Normally, these organizations have slightly different requirements than small business websites. They need flexible scalability, better access controls, tighter security, and improved performance.
In this article, we’ll look at WordPress for enterprise and share our tips on using WordPress for large-scale enterprise projects.
Here is a break-down of the topics we’ll cover in this article:
WordPress is the world’s most popular website builder, powering more than 43% of all websites on the internet.
In terms of CMS (content management system) software, WordPress dominates the market with a 65% market share. (source: CMS Market Share Study)
The immense popularity of WordPress is due to its flexibility, freedom, and ease of use.
The same reasons that make WordPress a great choice for smaller and medium-sized businesses also make it an excellent option for enterprise clients.
Costs – As a free, open-source platform, WordPress makes it easier to control costs at the enterprise level with the freedom to choose between different providers for hosting, development, support, and administration.
Add-ons and Integrations – With over 59,000 free WordPress plugins, there are a ton of ready-to-use add-ons for WordPress. Want to use a third-party email marketing service or payment gateway? Chances are that there is already an integration available for WordPress.
Expertise – As the most popular platform, plenty of people with high levels of expertise are available for you to hire. Whether you want to hire a developer, SEO manager, or system administrator, you’ll find the best people with years of experience with WordPress.
Security – As open-source software, WordPress is heavily scrutinized for security best practices by the world’s leading security experts. This assures you that if a vulnerability is found, it will be quickly reported and almost immediately patched.
All of this sounds good, but what about the concerns regarding WordPress usage in the enterprise?
Let’s address some of those misconceptions.
Debunking Myths About WordPress in Enterprise
Anything as popular as WordPress often faces myths, stereotyping, and misconceptions.
Generally, such myths are fuelled by competing alternatives to sell their own products or services.
Let’s look at some of those misconceptions about WordPress and debunk them from an enterprise software point of view.
1. WordPress is For Blogs Only
If you look back at the history of WordPress, you’ll find out that it started to solve a blogging software requirement.
That was two decades ago.
Soon after its start, WordPress evolved into a CMS and a full-fledged platform to make any types of websites.
It powers more than 43% of all websites and is used by all sorts of businesses. This includes businesses, big-name brands, popular online stores, subscription-based businesses, software companies, and more.
2. If WordPress is That Great, Why is it Free?
A misconception about WordPress being free is that people think of free as in free coffee. Which WordPress is not.
Users still need to pay for hosting, buying domain name, pay for third-party tools, and more.
WordPress is free, as in ‘freedom.’ It is an open-source software, meaning anyone can download it freely and build whatever they need.
Enterprises widely use free software like WordPress because it helps them cut costs. The biggest tech companies in the world use free software, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and countless others.
Another misconception is that WordPress is less secure than some other software.
Considering the size of WordPress’s market, it is significantly leaps and bounds ahead of any competing software available in terms of security.
Being open source and a crucial component of the Internet ecosystem, its code is consistently monitored, tested, and scrutinized by the world’s top security analysts.
With just some very basic WordPress security setup, it can be further strengthened. From an enterprise perspective, those common-sense security precautions are normal best practices.
The popular game Angry Birds uses WordPress for their website. They use it to make a highly interactive website showcasing videos, sliders, game stories, and more.
With these successful examples in mind, what should you know before using WordPress for enterprise?
Whether you are an enterprise client considering hiring a WordPress agency or an agency taking on a new enterprise customer, the following essential tips will help you easily navigate those challenges.
1. Choose The Right WordPress Enterprise Hosting
One of the major concerns of enterprise clients is the scalability of the platform.
It should be able to handle very high traffic simultaneously, with little to no impact on performance.
This is why you must choose a WordPress hosting platform made specifically for enterprise-grade clients.
We recommend using SiteGround. Their scalable cloud hosting platform is the most flexible managed WordPress enterprise hosting on the market.
You can choose from different levels of server resources for your needs and easily increase them by adding more RAM and processing power as needed.
You can also turn on auto-scaling, which automatically scales server resources in the event of a sudden traffic spike.
It includes daily backups, free CDN, built-in server-level caching, and enhanced security. Not to mention their incredibly outstanding support. Hosting with SiteGround Cloud is like having your own team of DevOps taking care of your hosting infrastructure.
WPBeginner is also hosted on SiteGround’s dedicated cloud cluster. Check out our case study of why we switched to SiteGround.
Need a SiteGround alternative? Take a look at WP Engine. They are the premium among the premium WordPress hosting platforms.
WP Engine offers a rock-solid hosting infrastructure suitable for enterprise. Trusted by top WordPress agencies and several Fortune 500 companies, WP Engine provides unbeatable performance and security.
2. Set up Enterprise Level Security
Security is one of the major concerns for enterprise websites. Poor security could have devastating consequences for an organization’s finances and reputation.
You are halfway there if you follow our earlier advice and select the top enterprise-grade WordPress hosting.
These hosting companies follow the highest security standards to protect your website from malicious attacks.
The next step is to set up a website application firewall (WAF). Now, depending on your hosting provider, you may already have WAF available under your hosting plan.
For instance, SiteGround offers Cloudflare CDN, which provides dual advantages of a CDN and a Web Application Firewall.
However, if your hosting provider doesn’t offer a built-in WAF, then we recommend using Sucuri. It is the best WordPress firewall on the market.
It blocks malicious requests, DDoS and Brute Force attacks, and other suspicious activities before they reach your hosting server.
It also comes with a CDN, which helps you further reduce load on your hosting server while providing faster page load times for your users.
That being said, no website security system is complete without preparing for the worst, which brings us to our next tip: backups.
3. Make Your Own Backups for Redundancy
Almost all enterprise-grade hosting providers offer daily backups and have redundancies built into their systems. This means you won’t lose all your data if something happens to one of their data centers.
This all sounds good on the paper. However, you must always ensure that you have your own backups stored safely as well.
This allows you to control all your website data instead of relying upon your hosting company.
For enterprise-level WordPress backups, we recommend VaultPress by JetPack. You’ll need a paid JetPack plan that includes VaultPress backups.
VaultPress makes incremental backups, which means your backups are always up-to-date. It offers easy 1-click restoration, a full archive of 30-day activity (depending on your site’s overall size), and 10GB of cloud storage.
All Duplicator backup files are fully encrypted to ensure they are secure regardless of where you store them. You can keep as many backups as you want and choose which data to store.
As for storage, you can choose from any of the top cloud storage service providers, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Microsoft Onedrive, or any Amazon S3-compatible storage provider. You can even store backups on separate servers using SFTP.
4. SEO for Enterprise Level Publications
In a recent study of WordPress for Enterprise, 34% of participating websites were in the Publishing / Media, and 12% were in the Marketing / Advertising industries.
WordPress is an SEO-friendly platform by design. However, at the enterprise level, you would need extra tools and controls to ensure that your content is highly optimized for SEO.
It comes with the most comprehensive set of SEO features you’ll need, including easy on-page optimization tools, advanced schema.org markup support, easy integration with Google Search Console and other webmaster tools, built-in content analysis, headline analyzer, and more.
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I have had my fair share of projects that have given me life because of what I accomplished, as well as those that have cost me life when I reflect on the terrible stress they caused. I know I’m not unique that way; sometimes, my work makes me feel like a rock star and other times, I question whether I should be a developer at all. Some projects test you — like really test you.
In the first week of December 2023, I got a contract to rebuild an entire web app from the ground-up using a new technology designed to be launched alongside a “new year, new system” initiative heading into 2024.
I think you know where this is going. I built up a lot of confidence heading into the project but soon found that I had bitten off way more than I could chew. The legacy code I inherited was the epitome of “legacy” code, and its spaghetti nature needed more than one developer to suss out. The project looked doomed from the beginning, and I hadn’t even written a line of code!
I quit the job. After weeks of stress-laden sleep, I simply couldn’t stomach the work. I actually dreaded work altogether. And with that dread came doubts about my career and whether I should start looking outside the industry.
Is this starting to sound familiar?
That job wasn’t just a project that posed a personal challenge; no, it was a battle for my mental health. I was officially burned out. Thankfully, I was relieved of some pressure when, to my surprise, the client was weirdly understanding and offered to bring in an additional developer to share the load. That really helped, and it gave me what I needed to roll my sleeves back up and finish the job.
Is This Success?
The project launched, and the client was happy with it. But I still experience aftershocks, even today, where the trauma from that contract seeps back in and reminds me just how awful it was and the extent to which it made me question my entire career.
So, even though the project was ultimately a success, I wouldn’t say it was “successful.” There was a real non-monetary cost that I paid just for taking the job.
I’m sure it is the same for you. We’ve all had stressful projects that push us to the brink of what feels like self-destruction. It’s clear because there are so many other articles and blog posts about it, all offering insightful personal advice for relieving stress, like exercise, sleep, and eating right.
In fact, as I reflected back on projects that predated this one particular nightmare, I realized there had been other projects I’d taken that had likely contributed to the burnout. Interestingly, I found a few common threads between them that I now use as “warning flags” going into new work.
All of our experiences are unique to us, and there is no standard recipe for managing stress and protecting your mental health. Advice in this area is always best described as “your mileage may vary” for no other reason than that it is scoped to a specific individual. True, one’s experiences can go so far as to help someone through a tough situation. I find it’s the same thing with self-help books — the best advice is usually the same advice found elsewhere, only articulated better or in a way that resonates with you.
Think of this article as more of my personal story of experiences safeguarding my mental health when finding myself in super specific work situations.
The Urgent Hotfix
Remember that project with the “comfortable” deadline? Yeah, me neither. It’s that common thing where you ask when the project needs to be completed, and you get back a sarcastic “last Tuesday.”
In this particular instance, it was a usual Monday morning. There I was, still in bed, happily rested after a fulfilling weekend. Then Slack started blasting me with notifications, all of which were in the vein of,
“Hey, users can’t make payments on the app — urgent!”
You can fault me for having Slack notifications enabled early on a Monday. But still, it killed my good mood and practically erased whatever respite I gained from the weekend. But I got up, headed over to the laptop, and began working as quickly as the day had started.
The timeline for this sort of fix is most definitely a “due last Tuesday” situation. It’s urgent and demands immediate attention at the expense of dropping everything else. There’s nothing easygoing about it. The pressure is on. As we were all trying to fix the bug, the customer support team also added to the pressure by frequently reporting the rising number of users having difficulties processing payments.
We read through this huge codebase and ran different kinds of tests, but nothing worked. I think it was around 40 minutes before the deadline that a colleague came across a Reddit post (dated six years ago or so) that had the solution in it. I tell you, that bug stood no chance. We finally got the payment system up and running. I was relieved, but at what cost?
What I Learned About HotFixes
Urgent hotfixes are a reality for most developers I know. They sort of come with the territory. But allowing them to take away your well-earned peace of mind is all too easy. A day can go from peaceful to panicking with just one Slack notification, and it may happen at any time, even first thing on a Monday morning.
What I’d Do Differently
It’s funny how Slack is called “Slack” because it really does feel like “slacking off” when you’re not checking in. But I can tell you that my Slack notifications are now paused until more reasonable hours.
Yes, it was a very real and very urgent situation, but allowing it to pull me completely out of my personal time wasn’t the best choice. I am not the only person on the team, so someone else who is already readily available can take the call.
After all, a rested developer is a productive developer, especially when faced with an urgent situation.
The Pit Of Procrastination
I once got myself into a contract for a project that was way above my skill set. But what’s that thing developers love saying, “Fake it ’til you make it,” or something like that? It’s hard to say “no” to something, particularly if your living depends on winning project bids. Plus, I won’t lie: there’s a little pride in not wanting to admit defeat.
When I accepted the job, I convinced myself that all I needed was two full days of steady focus and dedication to get up to speed and knock things out. But guess what? I procrastinated.
It actually started out very innocently. I’d give myself a brain break and read for 30 minutes, then maybe scroll through socials, then switch to YouTube, followed by… you get the picture. By the time I realize what happened, I’m several hours off schedule and find stress starting to harbor and swell inside me.
Those half hours here and there took me right up to the eleventh hour.
Unfortunately, I lost the contract as I couldn’t hit my promised timeline. I take full responsibility for that, of course, but I want to be honest and illustrate the real consequences that happen when stress and fear take over. I let myself get distracted because I was essentially afraid of the project and wasn’t being honest with myself.
What I Learned About Procrastination
The “fake it ’til you make it” ethos is a farce. There are relatively “safe” situations where getting into unfamiliar territory outside your skillset is going to be just fine. However, a new client with a new project spending new money on my expertise is not one of them.
Saying “yes” to a project is a promise, not a gamble.
And I’m no longer gambling with my client’s projects.
What I’d Do Differently
Learning on the job without a solid plan is a bad idea. If a project screams “out of my league,” I’ll politely decline. In fact, I have found that referring a client to another developer with the right skill set is actually a benefit because the client appreciates the honesty and convenience of not having to find another lead. I actually get more work when I push away the work I’m least suited for.
The Unrealistic Request
This happened recently at a startup I volunteered for and is actually quite funny in hindsight. Slack chimed in with a direct message from a marketing lead on the team:
“Hi, we are gonna need to add an urgent feature for a current social media trend. Can you implement it ASAP?”
It was a great feature! I dare say I was even eager to work on it because I saw its potential for attracting new users to the platform. Just one problem: what exactly does “ASAP” mean in this instance? Yes, I know it’s “as soon as possible,” but what is the actual deadline, and what’s driving it? Are we talking one day? One week? One month? Again, startups are famous for wanting everything done two weeks ago.
But I didn’t ask those questions. I dropped everything I was doing and completed the feature in two weeks’ time. If I’m being honest, there was also an underlying fear of saying “no” to the request. I didn’t want to disappoint someone on my team.
That’s the funny part. “ASAP” was really code for “as soon as possible with your current workload.” Was that communicated well? Definitely not. Slack isn’t exactly the best medium for detailed planning. I had a lot more time than I thought, yet I let myself get swept up by the moment. Sure, I nailed the new feature, and it did indeed attract new users — but again, at what cost? I patted myself on the back for a job well done but then swiveled my chair around to realize that I was facing a pile of work that I let mount up in the meantime.
And thus, the familiar weight of stress began taking its typical toll.
What I Learned About Unrealistic Requests
Everything has a priority. Someone else may have a pressing deadline, but does it supersede your own priorities? Managing priorities is more of a juggling act, but I was treating them as optional tasks that I could start and stop at will.
What I’d Do Differently
There are two things I’d do differently next time an unrealistic request comes up:
First, I’ll be sure to get a firm idea of when the request is actually needed and compare it to my existing priorities before agreeing to it.
Second, I plan on saying “no” without actually saying it. How different would the situation have been had I simply replied, “Yes, if...” instead, as in, “Yes, if I can complete this thing I’m working on first, then I’d be happy to jump on that next.” That puts the onus on the requester to do a little project management rather than allowing myself to take on the burden carte blanche.
The 48-Hour Workday
How many times have you pulled an all-nighter to get something done? If the answer is zero, that’s awesome. In my experience, though, it’s come up more times than I can count on two hands. Sometimes it’s completely my doing; I’ll get sucked into a personal side project or an interesting bug that leads to hours passing by like minutes.
I have more than a few friends and acquaintances who wear sleepless nights like merit badges as if accumulating them is somehow a desirable thing.
The most recent example for me was a project building a game. It was supposed to be pretty simple: You’re a white ball chasing red balls that are flying around the screen. That might not be the most exciting thing in the world, but it was introducing me to some new coding concepts, and I started riding a wave I didn’t want to leave. In my head, this little game could be the next Candy Crush, and there was no way I’d risk losing success by quitting at 2:00 a.m. No way.
To this day, the game is sitting dormant and collecting digital dust in a GitHub repository, unfinished and unreleased. I’m not convinced the five-day marathon was worth it. If anything, it’s like I had spent my enthusiasm for the job all at once, and when it burned me out, I needed a marathon stretch of sleep to get back to reality.
What I Learned About All-Nighters
The romanticized image of a fast-typing developer sporting a black hoodie in a dark room of servers and screens only exists in movies and is not something to emulate. There’s a reason there are 24 hours in a day instead of 48 — we need breaks and rest, if for nothing else, to be better at what we do. Mimicking a fictional stereotype is not the path to becoming a good developer, nor is it the path to sustainable living conditions.
What I’d Do Differently
I’m definitely more protective of the boundaries between me and my work. There’s a time to work, just as there’s a time for resting, personal needs, and even a time for playing.
That means I have clearly defined working hours and respect them. Naturally, there are days I need to be adaptable, but having the boundaries in place makes those days the exception as opposed to the rule.
I also identify milestones in my work that serve as natural pauses to break things up into more manageable pieces. If I find myself coding past my regular working hours, especially on consecutive days, then that’s an indication that I am taking on too much, that I am going outside of scope, or that the scope hasn’t been defined at all and needs more definition.
Bugged By A Bug
There are no escaping bugs. As developers, we’re going to make mistakes and clean them up as we go. I won’t say I enjoy bugfixes as much as developing new features, but there is some little part of me at the same time that’s like, “Oh yeah, challenge accepted!” Bugs can often be approached as mini puzzles, but that’s not such a bad thing.
But there are those bugs that never seem to die. You know, the kind you can’t let go of? You’re absolutely sure that you’ve done everything correctly, and yet, the bug persists. It nearly gets to the point where you might be tempted to blame the bug on the browser or whatever dependency you’re working with, but you know it’s not. It sticks with you at night as you go to bed.
Then comes the epiphany: Oh crap, it’s a missing X. And X is usually a missing semicolon or anything else that’s the equivalent of unplugging the thing and plugging it back in only to find things are working perfectly.
I have lots of stories like this. This one time, however, takes the cake. I was working on this mobile app with React Native and Expo. Everything was going smoothly, and I was in the zone! Then, a rendering error cropped up for no clear reason. My code compiled, and all the tests passed, but the app refused to render on my mobile device.
So, like any logical developer, I CTRL + Z’d my way back in time until I reached a point where I was sure that the app rendered as expected. I still got the same rendering error.
That was when I knew this bug was out for my blood. I tried every trick I knew in the book to squash that thing, but it simply would not go away. I was removing and installing packages like a madman, updating dependencies, restarting VS Code, pouring through documentation, and rebooting my laptop. Still nothing.
For context: Developers typically use Expo on their devices to render the apps in real-time when working with React Native and Expo. I was not, and therein lies the problem. My phone had decided to ditch the same Wi-Fi network that my laptop was connected to.
All I had to do was reconnect my phone to the network. Problem solved. But agony in the process.
What I Learned About Bugfixes
Not every code bug has a code solution. Even though I had produced perfectly valid scripts, I doubted my work and tackled the issue with what’s natural to me: code.
If I had stepped back from my work for even a moment, then I probably would have seen the issue and saved myself many hours and headaches. I let my frustration take over to the extent that the bug was no longer a mini puzzle but the bane of my existence. I really needed to read my temperature level and know when to take a break.
Bugs sometimes make me doubt my credibility as a developer, especially when the solution is both simple and right under my nose the entire time — likenetwork connectivity.
What I’d Do Differently
There’s an old Yiddish saying: To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish. You may recognize it as the leading quote in Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures. It’s closely related to other common sayings along the lines of, “To a hammer, everything is a nail.”
In addition to trying to look at bugs from a non-horseradish perspective, I now know to watch my frustration level when things start feeling helpless. Take breaks. Take a walk. Eat lunch. Anything to break the cycle of rumination. It’s often in that moment of clarity that the puzzle finally starts to come together.
The Meeting-Working Imbalance
I don’t like meetings, and I’m sure many developers would agree with me on that. They’re somewhat of a necessary evil right? There’s value, for example, in the weekly standups for checking in on the team’s progress and staying on the same page as far as what’s coming up in the following week of planning.
If only that was the one single meeting I had to attend on a given day.
Let me describe one particular day that I feel is emblematic of what I think is a common conflict between time spent in meetings and time spent working. I got to my workspace and was ready for the usual half-hour weekly team check-in. It went a little over, which was fine, but it did mean I had to rush to the next meeting instead of having a little buffer between the two. That meeting was a classic one, the type where everyone wants a developer in the room in case something technical comes up but never does, leaving me bored and dividing my attention with my actual work.
We had five meetings that day. In my book, that’s a full day completely wasted because I was unable to get around to writing any code at all, save for a few lines I could squeeze in here and there. That’s no way to work, but is unfortunately a common pattern.
What I Learned About Meetings
Meetings have to happen. I get that. But I’ve learned that not every meeting is one that I personally need to attend. In many cases, I can get the gist of what happened in a meeting by watching the recording or reading the project manager’s notes. I now know that meetings can “happen” in lots of ways, and what comes from them can still be learned asynchronously in many instances.
What I’d Do Differently
From here on out, I am asking (politely, of course) whether my attendance is mandatory or not when certain meetings come up. I also ask if I can either prepare something for the group in advance or get caught up to speed after the meeting has happened.
Conclusion
That’s it! These are a handful of situations I have found myself in the past couple of years. It’s funny how seemingly small events are able to coalesce and reveal patterns of behavior. There’s a common thread of stubbornness running through them that has opened my eyes to the way I work and how I manage my mental health.
I’m sure it is the same for you. What times can you remember when stress, anxiety, and frustration consumed you? Are you able to write them down? Do you see a pattern forming? I believe doing this sort of mental inventory is valuable because you start to see specific things that trigger your feelings, and with that, it’s possible to recognize and avoid them in the future.
