There is a tranche of plugins now close to being released from beta mode to core mode. Table of ContentsExternal Images upgrade should launch this weekFaster Woo Widgets progressingSuper Speedy SearchSummary External Images upgrade should launch this week The latest plugin I’ve been upgrading is our External Images plugin. I’ve tested the new beta version […]
I use Xdebug regularly to help clients figure out why their PHP processes are consuming all the CPU. If you haven’t tried it yet, I have an old article covering how to install and configure Xdebug. In the example below, the object cache is in use, and you can see from the Query Monitor plugin […]
Beta development of Faster Woo Widgets, Scalability Pro and Super Speedy Search continues at pace. If you’re out of the loop, you can see the latest activity on our live Trello board and you can comment on cards if you wish to contribute: https://trello.com/b/L9XeJrWC/wp-intense-plugin-development There are a few extra people who have requested access to […]
For those who have been following progress, you’ll know that our Faster Woo Widgets plugin has had a massive overhaul. The current beta version includes bug fixes for all but one of the bugs that have been reported and pretty much every single feature request has been implemented. The only bug not yet fixed is […]
A customer found their theme was grabbing images directly from the database using the GUID column. If you have a lot of posts, these types of queries will cause table scans. The theme in question is the Bridge theme by QODE, sold on ThemeForest. ThemeForest say that the Bridge theme has 130,000 customers, mostly working […]
I’ve had a good few bug reports coming in from the people testing Faster Woo Widgets beta. There are still a few bugs to fix, but the past week I focused on streamlining communication for these items. To that end, I’ve created a public Trello board showing the current dev work. You can see the […]
I know it’s been a long time, but with the extra options being added to this plugin the number of test cases to check has grown exponentially. I’ve been building Selenium test scripts to test every possible combination of options for each filter to streamline and speed up future regression testing, but regardless – I […]
A client came to me recently to get help with identifying why their site was so slow when users were logged out. Normally, the opposite is true – normally, logged in users aren’t benefiting from page-caching or other forms of caching, and normally logged in users – e.g. admin – have more content to load, […]
Ok, so I love WooCommerce, and I love speed, but this one has been on the back burner for far too long. Almost all of the refund requests for Scalability Pro that I get are because users were hoping to see their sites with 1000s or 10000s or even 100,000s of variations per product speeded […]
At WP Intense we have been making WordPress plugins to speed up your website for the past 4 years. Originally, this started out of a desire to build massive affiliate stores and discovering that vanilla WooCommerce is too slow for this. We now have a suite of plugins to help optimise and scale your site […]