Important: As is recommended before installing any WordPress plugin, ensure that you back up your WordPress website before you begin installation of the Arlo WordPress plugin.
In this article:
- Minimum requirements
- Known conflicts with other plugins
- Back up your website
- Review developer documentation
- Install the Arlo WordPress plugin
- Check permalink structure
- Configure settings and complete setup
Minimum requirements
In order for your WordPress plugin integration to be successful, you will need to ensure that your WordPress website and hosting environment meet our minimum requirements. Review the minimum requirements below.
- PHP Version - WordPress PHP version must be 5.5 or higher.
- Shared Server Hosting - Slow shared server hosting can cause issues with the data import. If you have shared server hosting please ensure you Set Up a Cron Job.Important: If your website is running on a "cheap" hosting server that could affect synchronisation between WordPress and Arlo.
- WordPress version - Your WordPress should be kept updated to the latest version available.
- Cache plugins - Caching plugins can interfere with the Arlo WordPress plugin. Once changes have been made to the Arlo plugin, ensure you clear or reset your caching plugins if you have them.
- Server Memory limit expected 64M or higher
- Server Max execution time 30 seconds or more
- Server must have cUrl enabled
- Server must have mCrypt enabled
- Server must have RIJNDAEL 128 available
- Server must have CBC mode available
- Server must have SHA512 available
- Google Maps API key for maps on venue profile pages (You need to enable the Google Static Maps API for the project).
Known conflicts with other plugins
WordFence (and similar security plugins)
- WordFence can blacklist Arlo callback IP addresses.
- This occurs when it's security threshold is triggered. For example; when multiple manual syncs are requested within a short space of time.
- To check whether Arlo IPs are blocked. Navigate to the firewall settings, within WordFence, and check under Top IPs Blocked. An example of this screen is show below.
Here are a list of all static IP addresses relative to Arlo for WordPress plugin
For all trial platforms
- 52.36.235.221
For APAC (NZ/AUS/Asia):
- 3.54.120.42
- 13.54.47.103
For EMEA (EU/UK/Africa) and US (USA/South America):
- 52.18.103.242
- 52.51.185.255
Canada:
- 15.222.68.42
- 52.60.151.74
Add these IPs to your whitelist, within WordFence, to allow them to bypass security rules.
iThemeSecurity
Similar to WordFence, iThemesSecurity can blacklist Arlo callbacks. In order to resolve this, please follow steps below.
- Open Security
- Click Banned Users
- Click Configure Settings
- Un-tick "Enable HackRepair.com's blacklist feature"
- Save Settings.
Backing up your website
It is best practice before installing any WordPress plugin, to perform a full back up your website. Same goes for our Arlo WordPress plugin. In the rare case that something goes wrong, you want to be sure that you have the ability to restore you website.
There are backup plugins that make backing up your website quick and easy, review the WordPress article below to learn more.
View the WordPress guide to backing up your WordPress website
Review developer documentation
Our developer documentation explains the inner workings of our WordPress plugin, and how to get the most out of the integration.
Review our developer documentation on the plugin installation
Install the Arlo WordPress plugin
Once you have backed up your website, and checked to make sure you have met the minimum requirements, you are ready to install the Arlo WordPress plugin. You have a couple of options:
Option 1 (Recommended):
- Login to your WordPress CMS, and navigate to the Plugins page (wp-admin/plugins.php)
- Press Add New
- Search Arlo Training
- Press Install Now
- Once the plugin installation has completed, press Activate
Option 2:
Download and install plugin from WordPress.org
- Press Download
- The plugin should download as a Zip folder
- Login to your WordPress CMS, and navigate to the Plugins page (wp-admin/plugins.php)
- Press Add New
- Then press: Upload Plugin
- Press Choose file and select the Arlo-Training-and-events Plugin Zip file, then click Install Now
Permalink structure
Check your Permalinks are set to post name in your wp-admin/options-permalink.php settings - WordPress dashboard > Settings > Permalinks > Select post name (this is better for search engines to find the pages).
Settings and setup
Once you have completed the above steps, follow our WordPress plugin settings and setup article.