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. […]
Faster Woo Widgets is our plugin that replaces the default WooCommerce filters with faster, better alternatives. Over the past 6 months I’ve been hard at work adding new SEO features, adding custom taxonomies, adding Woo Brands and Yith Brands compatibility and more! Here’s a selection of highlights from the changelog: Added cool new styles for […]
We’ve finally bowed to demand and altered our pricing structure while being careful not to hurt previous buyers. The full pack is still basically the same price, but now there are 2 other pack options depending on what type of WordPress user you are. On top of this, we’ve simplified our options – we no […]
A customer asked me for helping speeding up their imports. They are using WP All Import to import their products and keep the prices and other details updated, and while the imports were working fast for them at the start, the imports gradually slowed down to the point where they kept failing. Scalability Pro is […]
Exciting news in these difficult times – I’ve hired two new people, Glyn and Kerry, to help me improve and complete the documentation for all of our plugins. This past week, I’ve been training them up in how my plugins work and the first thing they’ll both be focusing on is writing all the numerous […]
Faster Woo Widgets is still in beta, but the latest beta is looking very, very good. The next thing to be added – next week – are two long-awaited features: SEO Text per filter combination Shop sitemap links This week This article should have been published on Monday, but basically I’m taking this week to […]
Our Faster Woo Widgets upgrades have been in beta for a while now – the latest beta version of FWW has many improvements to help you make your WooCommerce store stand out from the crowd. So far, the beta version includes more speed boosts, SEO optimisations to allow complete control over canonical URLs, noindex, nofollow […]
I haven’t written a dev diary update for quite a while – Over the past few months I’ve been preparing a lot of back-end stuff to make my life easier. The main issue was whenever I ran promotions, I’d get inundated with private questions which then I had to answer privately and this would really […]