I’ve been working hard on the latest version of Scalability Pro to bring improved performance to you all for a wider range of plugins you have installed. But towards the end of my work, as I was trying to solidify the user interface to make it super easy to use, I realised something that needs […]
I’ve got the scraping service back up and running. Some of you were complaining that the recent upgrade had broken Amazon scraping but in fact it’s just Amazon implementing BOT BLOCKING. To see this, I’ve created a minor upgrade to Price Comparison Pro to add some debug info. To view the debug info and see […]
Hi – I’m working on a fix, but there’s currently an outage in our Price Comparison Pro scraper service. This is unrelated to, but unfortunately coincidental with, yesterdays upgrade to the Price Comparison Pro plugin.
Hi folks – I’m aware it’s been a while coming, but the latest upgrade to Price Comparison Pro is out and it’s a good one! Here’s what you can find in the latest, v2.51 code: Table of ContentsPrice UpdatesSales Price SelectorMultiple Shortcodes Per PagePrice Caching working againStyling OptionsPrice SortingCookies can now be submitted with your […]
Table of ContentsOh no! Another form to fill in!Alternatives to TypeformWhat annoyed us about Typeforms?Integrating Typeforms into WordPressTypeforms are better in FullscreenMaking the best forms on the net better Oh no! Another form to fill in! Filling in forms on websites can be boring. Even with auto-fill working, it is tedious. WPI were looking for […]
I like transparency. I also like repeatable processes – once you have a repeatable process, you can measure and you can improve. To that end, here is our plugin deployment process: Develop fixes, features on your local environment Commit changes and edits to your local repository against the relevant Jira issue Once you have a […]
If you have purchased, or are thinking of purchasing the Rocket Stack, here are the steps you need to take in order to get your droplet ready for us to build upon. Table of ContentsYou need your own SSH keysPrivate Putty SSH KeyPublic OpenSSH KeyCreate a Digital Ocean droplet and add your SSH key and […]
If you’ve used tools like Pingdom, Google Page Speed Insights or GT Metrix, you’ll have seen that they can help figure out why ‘front-end’ performance of your site is slow. Front-end performance includes all the stuff that happens on the users browser. It doesn’t include things like PHP execution time or MySQL query time – […]
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Traffic spikes tend to hit one or two pages on your site, so to profit from traffic spikes you need to ensure everything is cachable and that everything is actually cached. Pages are only cachable if they do not have unique content per user. Unique content per user includes things like: Wishlist widget – if […]
Nginx is awesome – really fast compared to Apache. Cloudflare is also awesome – a fast and free for most CDN. If you are running WordPress however, there is a problem you have to deal with – namely WordPress Botnets. Table of ContentsCountering BotnetsThe Cloudflare Fail2ban problemEnabling realip with NginxConfiguring Nginx to get the real […]