I’ve been optimising a WP All Import job for a client with 600,000 products and while doing so I was hitting refresh on SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST to catch queries which take too long to run. I kept seeing the following query: SELECT status, COUNT( * ) FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = ‘product’ GROUP BY post_status; […]
A potential client arrived yesterday on my Discord channel asking for help with slow WooCommerce Variations. It turns out, in their case, they only have a total of 72 variations and yet their product detail page was running incredibly slowly. As luck would have it for them, I was keen to get back into recording […]
I actually discovered this performance issue right here on our own website. Normally I discover performance issues on client or customer websites. From now on, as I discover badly behaving plugins, either on my site, or through optimisation work I do for clients and customers I will be taking the time to write about them […]
Dave Hilditch of WP Intense is back at WordCamp. This time at WordCamp Athens 2022, hosted at Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Dave covers speeding up WordPress and simultaneously keeping unnecessary power consumption down. Two birds with one stone. For more information about boosting performance, here’s Dave’s complete WordPress performance guide. Slides for ‘Making WordPress Faster […]
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Up until now, we’ve been relying on creating manual coupons for users who wish to upgrade. There are many upgrade paths available when you buy our plugins and we are keen to make it as easy as possible for you to upgrade. Table of ContentsUpgrade OptionsUpgrade TimelinesViewing your Upgrade Options Upgrade Options If you buy […]
Query Monitor is by far the best tool to analyse WordPress performance bottlenecks. With this tool, you can quickly discover which plugins or even which theme functions are causing your site to slow down. In this article, I’ll cover how I use Query Monitor when running performance analysis jobs for clients. Table of ContentsInstallationQuery Monitor […]
After getting my website home page load time down to 1.3 seconds, with the help of Scalability Pro, Super Speedy Filters and Super Speedy Search, imagine my disappointment when recently, I was seeing times of 7 seconds+ on random visits to the website. Using Query Monitor, I was able to diagnose that a significant chunk […]
If you have a large site, you probably noticed wp-admin slowing down a lot with the later versions of WooCommerce. WooCommerce have been working towards optimising their code, but they still leave some gremlins in there. In this case, they have a piece of code which checks to see if ‘products exist’ already to determine […]
Pricing products is never easy – sometimes you drop the price and it actually reduces sales! Over the past few weeks I’ve been considering how to increase the value proposition to new users while keeping existing users happy, all while making the price right so we can grow and hire more staff. Table of ContentsSingle […]