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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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Learn which of these 3 XML sitemap plugins is the only one that can scale, and how to achieve it!
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Since pivoting the business slightly to focus almost entirely on plugin development, I’ve had to make moves to actually bring in enough revenue from plugins to support operations. Part of that was bringing in Freddy Jones, our new affiliate marketing manager. One of the first things he did was to contact Rehub – a popular […]
Everyone else measures theme performance using GT Metrix. If you go do a Google search now for ‘fastest WordPress themes’ or similar, you’ll find EVERY ‘review’ is just measuring GT Metrix or Pingdom scores. These scores only tell you client-side performance. If you want to skip the bullshit, you can go check prices for the Rehub theme […]
The Foundthru site has been built to demonstrate the functionality and performance of the various plugins available from www.wpintense.com. Key Facts FoundThru contains over 800,000 affiliated products This server is a $40 per month Digital Ocean server The server stack is the Rocket Stack The site is uncached so you can see and feel the raw […]
There’s a new update for Scalability Pro out. It includes two new options to further optimise the scalability of your website. Replacing LEFT JOINs with WHERE EXISTS Scalability Pro now includes a new option in the settings page to attempt to rewrite WP_Query LEFT JOINs to use WHERE EXISTS instead. For those of you who […]
I’ve just been sent the link to my filmed talk down in Brighton at the WordCamp there. I hate seeing myself recorded, but if you want to watch my talk made on the day this site launched then here it is. I don’t get into too many technical details, but I do sort of talk a […]