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When creating a new site on the WP Cloud platform, clients can now set the new restore_from parameter to a pair of backup IDs (filesystem and database). This will provision a new empty site and then restore the provided backups to it. For example: curl -H “Auth: API_AUTH_TOKEN” -X POST \ –data “domain_name=restored-site.example.org” \ –data…

A new set of API endpoints is now available for customizing the outbound firewall rules for sites on the WP Cloud platform. Clients can now allow individual sites to access external databases, SSH/SFTP, and other services that were previously blocked. To add a firewall rule: curl -H ‘Auth: API_AUTH_TOKEN’ -X POST \ –data “direction=egress” \…

Why HSTS matters Enabled by default on WP Cloud, HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) can instruct browsers to load a domain over HTTPS. Adding the includeSubDomains and preload directives: What’s new While strict-transport-security is enabled on all domains using WP Cloud by default, the WP Cloud Atomic API recently added two endpoints to independently control the includeSubDomains and preload…