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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
This minor update is for those of you installing fresh on MySQL 8 (as opposed to those who upgraded to MySQL 8). MySQL 8 by default makes the ‘information schema’ tables case-sensitive, so there was a bug that meant new installs were not spotting the indexes which had been created causing much confusion. If you […]
A new update to External Images has been released. The primary focus of this release was to fix some issues that were occurring on some themes causing images to not display, or to display at weird sizes. Source of image size changed Instead of using the Woocommerce ‘ratio-based’ image sizes, and code-based widths, this update […]