As of August 2019, WordPress sites on CiviHosting are starting to display a message: PHP Update Reqquired WordPress has detected that your site is running on an insecure version of PHP. What is PHP and how does it affect my site? PHP is the programming language we use to build and maintain WordPress. Newer versions...
Looking for a secure and private place to store your own git repositories? CiviHosting has git installed on all servers and our Control Panel comes with an easy tool to create and manage your git repositories, including installing GitList at the press of a button. Check out our Git Hosting page for more information.
ScrewTurn Wiki was a wiki package built in ASP.NET. It is now defunct, but if you're looking for a good self-hosted wiki alternative, we have two to suggest. One is MediaWiki and one is DokuWiki. They are both great wiki tools, both secure and up to date and maintained etc. We have experience and expertise...
This is a great question, that we get a lot. The answer is all versions. Our hosting is not locked down at all and it's not SAAS. Each hosting account with us is completely separate and private just to its owners and we provide you with full access to your files and databases. When we...
This is a great question, that we get a lot. The answer is all versions. Our hosting is not locked down at all and it's not SAAS. Each hosting account with us is completely separate and private just to its owners and we provide you with full access to your files and databases. When we...
Interested in running your own MediaWiki instance on your own domain name? In response to a recent issue on the MediaWiki site, here are the basics: there are three issues involved: Domain Name Hosting Installation To expand a bit, you would first need a domain name which means you must purchase that from a domain...
Categories are built into MediaWiki. See the Help:Categories page for more details. Not everyone realizes however, that subcategories are also built in. For simple instructions how to create a subcategory see the How to create new categories or subcategories page at Wikimedia Commons. When you assign pages to categories, then the actual category page, listing...
MediaWiki 1.33 was released on July 2, 2019 and is available for download.
We recommend WP Super Cache for caching in WordPress. In our experience, it works best, and it's also very easy to use. It works best alone, meaning without any other caching tools added. Just install it, and then visit the settings page (under the main Settings menu in your WordPress dashboard) and then for "Cache...