We’ve been busy setting up our Speed Test environment so we can exhaustively measure all the themes and plugins out there and discover more performance enhancements. While running our tests, we had the Kadence theme installed and discovered a 10s query running every time on the wp-admin pages. Investigating Slow Queries The slow query seems […]
I wrote previously about the slow code that exists in WooCommerce for Onboarding tasks. They misuse the database in 4 separate areas and I’ve already submitted a merge request to fix two of these. Now I’ve managed to fix all of these areas inside Scalability Pro. What this new option speeds up This will speed […]
The WordPress dashboard can get quite slow as your website grows which is why we’re always on top of it and adding more code to Scalability Pro to keep your dashboard running quickly. This article describes some upgrades for import and wp-admin speed released in Scalability Pro 4.94 Remove SQL_CALC_ROWS from edit.php option If you […]
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 […]
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. Super Speedy Search Instant as-you-type suggestions on a million product store on a $20 per month server. Some thought it would not […]
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 […]
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 […]
I became aware a few days ago that I’d inadvertently broken the automatic updates for this plugin and so users haven’t been receiving updates. To fix this, please visit your account page and download the latest version. If you are on the latest version of WordPress, you can then visit wp-admin -> Plugins -> Add […]