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 […]
I upgraded Foundthru to the latest WooCommerce and after onboarding (updating the database) it keeps checking if I need to update the database with expensive calls on wp-admin. On foundthru with 1 million products, this increases wp-admin page load time from 3 seconds to 28 seconds. There’s no easy fix I can apply for this […]
Yesterday, to practically zero fanfare, we launched the new Super Speedy Pack. This new pack is available for per-year licensing (unlimited sites) and includes Super Speedy Search, Super Speedy Filters and Scalability Pro. Table of ContentsSuper Speedy SearchFuture developmentsSuper Speedy Filters (formerly called Faster Woo Widgets)Future developmentsOther developmentsLimited deals still available Super Speedy Search Instant […]
For five years I’ve been solving WordPress performance problems. There are many patterns that exist out there that you can use to help you identify where slow bottlenecks on your site are coming from. Below, I try to impart that knowledge to help you get the speed you deserve from the hosting you’re paying for. […]