Performance Optimisation for various XML Sitemap plugins
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Learn which of these 3 XML sitemap plugins is the only one that can scale, and how to achieve it!
Dave Hilditch
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Minor update for Scalability Pro released
This minor update is for those of you installing fresh on MySQL 8 (as opposed to those who upgraded to MySQL 8). MySQL 8 by default makes the ‘information schema’ tables case-sensitive, so there was a bug that meant new installs were not spotting the indexes which had been created causing much confusion. If you […]
External Images 1.97 released
A new update to External Images has been released. The primary focus of this release was to fix some issues that were occurring on some themes causing images to not display, or to display at weird sizes. Source of image size changed Instead of using the Woocommerce ‘ratio-based’ image sizes, and code-based widths, this update […]
External Images upgrade released – gallery support added
External Images is one of our most popular plugins, especially for those building massive affiliate stores. One of the biggest limitations on speed and size of affiliate stores is the images being imported and resized on your server. That not only uses up CPU, it also fills your disks up. External Images works around this […]
Major upgrade for Price Comparison Pro released
Many of you have been asking for updates to our popular plugin, Price Comparison Pro. Today, there’s a new release which adds most of the functionality you’re looking for. Improved Debugging & Logging We’ve massively improved the debugging features available in the plugin. So – you can set up your sites, get them scraping prices […]
Installing the fastest WordPress stack with Ubuntu 18.04 and MySQL 8
If you’ve been following my stack guides, you’ll have seen how popular my previous stack-build guides were. That’s because they were incredibly fast for the price of the server you’re using. My previous guides included installing Varnish and PerconaDB. In this guide, these have both been replaced with new and better alternatives. Update: Since writing […]
How I defeated the biggest WordPress hack attack I’ve ever seen
For the past 2 weeks, WP Intense has been under a sustained attack from a hacker. Someone, somewhere, has purchased a massive database of emails + passwords and has been trying to hack into our website using these emails. The scale of this is fairly enormous – in the past week alone, over 2 million […]
External Images upgrade released
Now we’re getting back on track with a far smoother support system, it’s released me from the shackles of just answering questions all day. As a result, plugin updates are coming thick and fast with the first upgrade being for External Images. Some themes, e.g. Storefront, have a new ‘image ratio’ feature which External Images […]
25%-off promotion for July 1st to July 7th
To celebrate both Independence Day on 4th July and the biggest UFC fight card of the year on the 7th July, we are running a double promotion. On 7th July Derrick Lewis will fight the massive and dangerous Francis Ngannou. If Lewis wins by KO, all purchases made using the coupon code below will have […]
WordPress performance quick start guide
Updated 28th September 2021 Solving WordPress performance issues is what WP Intense is all about. Here’s what our founder has to say: Fast websites make more money. When I optimise WordPress websites for clients, conversions go up, pages viewed per user go up, customer lifetime value increases and even inbound traffic from SEO gains a […]