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Glossary

Active Campaign​

  • A service for sending marketing emails.

Adminber​

  • A custom internal tool that houses SolidWP's member information and subscription data.
  • It connects Recurly, Memberpanel, and the Solid APIs.

Asana​

  • Our main project-management tool. Tickets are created and assigned here.

Cloudflare​

  • The backbone of our web infrastructure.
  • Provides our DNS, WAF, and some additional services like Caching, CDN, and Zaraz.

Commerce Site​

  • Any of our websites that process payments (usually with WooCommerce)

Composer​

  • A dependency manager for PHP; we use it "normal" PHP dependencies, but also to manage WordPress core, as well as WordPress plugins and themes.

EDD​

  • "Easy Digital Downloads"—a plugin for selling digital products on WordPress.
  • This is an alternative to WooCommerce; currently only GiveWP uses EDD, and we aim to migrate it to WooCommerce eventually.

Git (GitHub)​

  • A version control system—tracks changes in code, and lets us collaborate and review that code.
  • A git "repo", or repository, is the "source of truth" for a website's codebase.

Impact​

  • The affiliate marketing platform that Liquid Web uses; we have to ensure it's supported on our sites and affiliate sales are tracked correctly.

Mailgun​

  • A service for sending transactional emails.

Marketing Site​

  • Any website that is not a "Commerce Site".

Memberpanel​

  • A custom internal tool that pulls data from Adminber, where Solid customers can manage their subscriptions and billing information.

Nexcess​

  • A subsidiary of Liquid Web that provides WordPress hosting and support—we use Nexcess for hosting our sites as opposed to the LiquidWeb.com platform proper.

Object Cache Pro​

  • Provides object caching in WordPress, which improves site performance and reduces site load.
  • This relies on Redis; see below.

Redis​

  • A key-value store in memory that can be used for caching and session management.

Recurly​

  • A subscription billing SaaS that Solid uses for managing customer subscriptions.
  • This was a legacy decision and we may migrate to WooCommerce in the future.

WAF​

  • Short for "Web Application Firewall".
  • This is provided by Cloudflare, and helps protect our sites from malicious attacks and spam.

WP CLI​

  • A utility for managing WordPress installations, plugins, etc. from the command line.