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 […]
Obviously we love our own plugins to help you speed up your WordPress website. But we don’t only use our plugins on our websites. Here are the key third-party plugins we also use for maximum WordPress speed: Table of ContentsAutoptimizeWP All ImportDatafeedrRedis Object CacheNginx CacheEmail delivery – SparkpostBackups using Updraft PlusAsk for other plugin recommendations […]
I’ve written in the past about building incredibly fast WordPress stacks, and in our stack maintenance guide I covered a great script to help you optimise your MySQL 8 configuration. In this guide, I’ll focus on how to record slow SQL queries with MySQL 8 and then how to install and use tools to tell […]
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last dev diary, but there has been quite a bit of activity around bug fixes. As always, the product pages include a CHANGE LOG tab where you can see the full updates but here’s a summary: Table of ContentsScalability ProExternal ImagesFaster Woo WidgetsMulticurrencyalizerHiringSpring bank holiday 27% discount […]
Hi everyone – quick update on bug fixing progress. There was a new update released yesterday with pretty much ALL bugs from Faster Woo Widgets fixed. It seems there’s one remaining which occurs with certain specific settings that I’m working on fixing now. I’ve also released an update for External Images which improves theme compatibility […]