Hi – I’m working on a fix, but there’s currently an outage in our Price Comparison Pro scraper service. This is unrelated to, but unfortunately coincidental with, yesterdays upgrade to the Price Comparison Pro plugin.
Hi everyone – If you’ve been using Price Comparison Pro, you know how awesome it is at scraping prices from ANY website. BUT – the configuration is a major pain. Even if you know how to create the CSS selectors, the current version of Price Comparison Pro still wants you to enter URLs for prices […]
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 […]
Many of you have been asking for updates to our popular plugin, Price Comparison Pro. Today, there’s a new release which adds most of the functionality you’re looking for. Improved Debugging & Logging We’ve massively improved the debugging features available in the plugin. So – you can set up your sites, get them scraping prices […]
Hi folks – I’m aware it’s been a while coming, but the latest upgrade to Price Comparison Pro is out and it’s a good one! Here’s what you can find in the latest, v2.51 code: Price Updates There is a new option in the settings page to let you choose to update prices if you […]
It’s finally here! The long awaited and requested update for our Price Comparison Pro is live with version 2.05. This update will allow you to scrape from websites which are using Ajax to load their prices. What’s it about? Price Comparison Pro’s only limitation before the release of 2.05 was the inability to fetch prices […]
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 […]
External Images is one of our most popular plugins, especially for those building massive affiliate stores. One of the biggest limitations on speed and size of affiliate stores is the images being imported and resized on your server. That not only uses up CPU, it also fills your disks up. External Images works around this […]
Now we’re getting back on track with a far smoother support system, it’s released me from the shackles of just answering questions all day. As a result, plugin updates are coming thick and fast with the first upgrade being for External Images. Some themes, e.g. Storefront, have a new ‘image ratio’ feature which External Images […]
Firstly, my apologies to those of you not using External Images. We have a change coming very soon which will give you the option to choose which email updates to receive. A fairly major update to External Images has just been released, but included in it is a change to the folder name. Because of […]