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 […]
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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 […]
If you’ve been following my WordPress cluster guides, you’ll know that I use GlusterFS or Unison to handle file replication between nodes in the cluster. This works well when there are not too many files per directory. But if you have thousands upon thousands of images in your uploads folder then GlusterFS can get a […]
GlusterFS is great if you don’t have a lot of files in your folder, but it really slows down when you have a highly populated uploads folder. This is probably expected and normal for folks with a cluster, unless they’re using S3 or similar for upload storage. GlusterFS is largely slow because it guarantees that the […]
One of our most popular articles is our guide to building your own WordPress cluster. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can build your own WordPress cluster. Our cluster guide involves setting up multiple nodes using Unison for file replication, PerconaDB Xtra-DB for database replication and an nginx load balancer to balance the traffic […]
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It may be that you’re running a migration for someone, or you’ve decided to switch to using Digital Ocean volumes. Whatever the reason, downloading files from S3 using rsync + fuse is very slow. Here’s how to transfer files quickly. apt install python-pippip install awscli –upgrade –userpip install –upgrade pipapt install awscli Now, that’s AWS installed, […]
Freddy came on-board full-time 2 months ago. He’s a royal pain in the ass. He’s arrived here expecting the entire system to be smooth and simple to use. He was not impressed. Anyway – thanks to him, we’ve managed to figure out how to move to a ticketless support system. That sounds nuts maybe, but we […]
Great news – we have a new hire. Technically, he’s been working for me for a few months now, off and on, but he’s working full time now. Freddy has taken a bunch of responsibilities on his young shoulders including: Level 1 support – if you’ve created a ticket recently, you’ve probably encountered Freddy Affiliate […]
UPDATE: It’s been a long time since I wrote this Products on Sale shortcode plugin – since then I’ve integrated way better functionality into my Faster Woo Widgets plugin so you can have /sale/dog-toys/black/ as your permalinks and have your products-on-sale filterable, paginated and optionally indexable by google. If you get Faster Woo Widgets, please […]
