Description
WooCommerce Store Owners
If you have a growing store, you’ll have noticed your store slowing down as you get more products, more orders and more users. The 4 plugins that will help you include Scalability Pro, Faster Woo Widgets, Super Speedy Search and External Images.
You can consider our awesome Price Comparison Pro plugin as a bonus plugin which you can use to compare your prices versus your competitors, or to add extra product search options to your store without having to import additional products. This is a great way of adding additional affiliate revenue on top of your normal WooCommerce revenue.
Affiliate Store Owners
As per WooCommerce Store Owners, with the added bonus that you can keep your affiliate prices up to date and optionally scrape better, larger images from your affiliated merchants.
Large Blog Site Owners
If you have a large number of articles and/or a large number of users then the key plugins for you are Scalability Pro and Super Speedy Search. If you create product-comparison or product review articles, then the price comparison widgets and search comparison widgets included in Price Comparison Pro will set your blog apart from the rest.
Scalability Pro
Helps by speeding up wp-admin and the product archive pages. It works by optimising slow SQL queries to use indexes where they are missing. Code has been added for major issues identified in many themes and plugins to fix scalability issues and keep your site running fast, regardless of how big or popular it becomes.
Faster Woo Widgets
Provides far faster widgets than those provided anywhere else – our widgets scale easily to millions of products, and they have great functionality too.
Super Speedy Search
Provides lightning fast and more relevant text search results, and it integrates with Faster Woo Widgets to show your users matching product counts per category and/or attribute. Users can drill down into these attributes, retaining their original search. The easier you make it for users to find your products, the more sales you will make.
External Images
Allows you to use images from your own CDN (e.g. Amazon S3) or from affiliate network CDNs. This massively speeds up your imports, eliminates the massive storage requirement for thousands of images and eliminates the CPU load of converting these images into various image sizes that WordPress uses.
Price Comparison Pro
Provides a price comparison widget that you can place anywhere on your blog to compare prices from different merchants, or have it on your WooCommerce product detail pages.
Also includes a search comparison widget, allowing your users to perform searches against any third party website and see the collated results in a WooCommerce-like archive. All items have your own affiliate links added.
Auto Infinite Scroll
This bonus plugin lets you add proper infinite scroll to your website – when a user clicks a product in your archive page, then clicks the back button in the browser, they will be returned to the exact same spot on the product archive page. No other plugin we’ve found provides this functionality, and the way it works in our plugin actually reduces load on your server by storing the archive in the browser storage meaning no need to ask the server for page 2 and page 3 again.
Rik EngelenReview of Scalability Pro, December 20th, 2020
Today put this tool on my website with 50,000+ products. The page loading times were really 10 to 20 seconds during imports via wpallimport. Set all steps and go through and now around 1 to 2.
What a great tool 🙂
Dave Hilditch - December 30th, 2020
Thank you! This plugin was built for large stores or large blogs, so it’s really great to hear from happy customers.
Zaid IseedReview of Scalability Pro, December 14th, 2020
BAD WEBSITE, BAD SUPPORT, BAD PLUGINS
I purchased the plugin, then I’ve installed it on my website and it did not do anything, literally nothing.
I’ve tried to contact the support and I did not receive any reply, Also I’ve tried to request a refund and no one contacted me.
This is a lie, be careful. DON’T DEAL WITH THIS WEBSITE.
Dave Hilditch - December 30th, 2020
I’m never happy to hear about unhappy customers – I’m really sorry it didn’t speed things up for you.
Here’s a guide explaining what each of the plugins do:
https://www.wpintense.com/2018/06/30/wordpress-performance-quick-start-guide/
As for contacting us – please use the Q&A through the site and you will get a response – I don’t see any questions from you. I do not reply to email questions any more if that’s where you tried to contact me. This was an intentional decision to eliminate the vast number of questions I used to answer in private – now other customers can benefit from the questions and answers.
You can see my blog article discussing this here:
https://www.wpintense.com/2020/12/07/december-development-update/
If you are really in a rush, you can contact me through facebook, but if it’s a general question I’ll still ask you to ask the question through our Q&A system.
For refunds – email [email protected]
I just looked through my emails and I see that your site crashed when you were creating the indexes – this is almost certainly due to your server running out of disk space. The indexes don’t take up too much extra space on your disks, but they do need some free space in order to be created.
wsthffReview of Faster Woo Widgets, November 3rd, 2020
Hi Dave,
the plugin is great, very fast and highly customisable. Would be great if it was compatible with Yith Brands Add-on. We have many brand pages and would like to use filters on brand pages as well, such as filter by categories and attributes, which is very important for a e-commerce site.
REGARDS
Dave Hilditch - March 31st, 2021
I am pleased to confirm that a new Custom Taxonomy widget was added in beta 2.34 to add compatibility for Yith Brands, Woo Brands etc. Many improvements made to Faster Woo Widgets since then too – complete control over your custom taxonomy URLs etc.
https://www.wpintense.com/assets/plugins/faster-woo-widgets/beta/readme.txt
Stephan PireReview of Faster Woo Widgets, September 21st, 2020
Hey Dave, this works quite well on soundorabilia.com.
I have a slight issue though:
Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
On that location:
wp-content/plugins/faster-woo-widgets/faster-woo-widgets.php:3992
fww_getseotitle()
wp-content/plugins/faster-woo-widgets/faster-woo-widgets.php:4119
fww_set_title()
wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287
apply_filters(‘pre_get_document_title’)
wp-includes/general-template.php:1135
wp_get_document_title()
wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/presenters/title-presenter.php:39
Yoast\W\S\P\Title_Presenter->get()
wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/presenters/abstract-indexable-tag-presenter.php:35
Yoast\W\S\P\Abstract_Indexable_Tag_Presenter->present()
wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/front-end-integration.php:267
Yoast\W\S\I\Front_End_Integration->present_head()
wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287
do_action(‘wpseo_head’)
wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/src/integrations/front-end-integration.php:242
Yoast\W\S\I\Front_End_Integration->call_wpseo_head()
wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php:287
do_action(‘wp_head’)
wp-includes/general-template.php:3006
wp_head()
wp-content/themes/flatsome/header.php:10
load_template(‘wp-content/themes/flatsome/header.php’)
wp-includes/template.php:676
locate_template()
wp-includes/general-template.php:48
get_header(‘shop’)
wp-content/themes/flatsome/woocommerce/archive-product.php:20
Cheers mate
Dave Hilditch - September 23rd, 2020
Please visit the settings page and configure how you wish your permalinks to display and this warning should disappear.
Kerstin KetzscherReview of External Images, August 24th, 2020
I wait now over 1 Month for support. Nothing works, no support.
Please give me a refund.
Dave Hilditch - September 2nd, 2020
Sorry for your poor experience, August had me pulled in all directions.
Annie AmusuReview of Price Comparison Pro, June 19th, 2020
Hello, I have submitted a few Q&A and a support ticket.
Can I please get a response?
Regards
Annie
Dave Hilditch - July 2nd, 2020
All questions answered, all tickets answered.
Stuart JohnsonReview of External Images, June 6th, 2020
Thanks, this plugin is excellent and does exactly what it says!
Our webhosting provider is one of those that offers ‘unlimited’ storage space, but in very tiny print states that there is a ‘technical’ limit on the number of files you can have in your account.
We use multi-channel listing software, and all our images are already uploaded to their own image servers, so it makes sense to use the images from there rather than have them uploaded to our website hosting as well.
Now with this plugin, I don’t need to worry about finding a new hosting provider or file storage limits, and concentrate instead on adding even more products to our Woo Shop.
Dave Hilditch - June 22nd, 2020
Thank you for your review and I’m glad to hear about another area where this plugin is popular. I hope you find the recent updates useful too – we added variation images and variation galleries as well as image preview in the admin area and better compatibility with theme magnifying glasses etc.
John BlackReview of Scalability Pro, June 6th, 2020
Hello!
I have a wordpress e-commerce website and woocommer. My website has about 100k products x 288 variants. And recently, I often don’t have access to line items. So does your plugin optimize that? Thank you very much!
Dave Hilditch - June 9th, 2020
Yes, if you install Query Monitor, you’ll see a slow main query – it optimises those primarily. For the variations you should add Redis object cache – see my stack building guide: https://www.wpintense.com/2018/10/20/installing-the-fastest-wordpress-stack-ubuntu-18-mysql-8/
nokivconReview of External Images, May 25th, 2020
Hi,
For Woocommerce to have multiple image links, so that multiple images can be shown, will the plugin accommodate?
Also do you have any suggestions for any services that allow to upload product images along with a metadata like the SKU, which we can export to a csv/spreadsheet time to time to get the matching image URLs for a product SKU?
Dave Hilditch - May 25th, 2020
The current live version allows featured images and gallery images.
The current beta version has above (improved editor) as well as variation images.
I’m working on adding variation gallery images too into beta.
re: SKU, WooCommerce has a field you can set for SKU. A good import tool is WP All Import.
Kevin GrimmReview of Faster Woo Widgets, April 2nd, 2020
Bringing errors and no support
Dave Hilditch - April 3rd, 2020
When you first install this version, visit the settings page and hit save. It’s a known issue in the current version, fixed in the upcoming beta release.
Greg DoughertyReview of Price Comparison Pro, July 31st, 2019
BUY AT OWN RISK.
If plugin does not work, creator becomes unresponsive to Emails and will not offer a refund as promised in Terms and Conditions. Beware..
Dave Hilditch - August 1st, 2019
That’s not true at all. I chatted to you through on-site chat, helped you with scraping a bunch of different websites, you even said that it was working great, but then you much-later decided to go a different direction and told me that all the other plugin authors for this demo site you made have issued you refunds.
I had already provided you lots of personal support, at least 3 hours of my own time to help you use the plugin to it’s fullest and coded up extra stuff into the plugin to help further.
Then after you sent me the message saying you wanted a refund, despite the product doing what it’s meant to do, despite you actually saying that too, you issued a PayPal claim rather than continue talking to me. So then a week later I replied through PayPal and sent them screenshots of your still-live website still using my plugin and using it properly to scrape prices and PayPal resolved the claim in my favour.
ihatelifeReview of External Images, July 16th, 2019
I love how fucking fast External Images when I import a lot image without need the CDN server.
Dave Hilditch - July 16th, 2019
Thanks! That’s the primary reason I built it. That and the ability to have millions of products in your affiliate store without the need for massive amounts of storage space.
savvasReview of Faster Woo Widgets, March 25th, 2019
This is the third plugin i bought! Faster isn’t close to how fast woo widgets load! Excellent plugin!!!
Dave HilditchReview of Auto Infinite Scroll, March 21st, 2019
Hi – I’m really sorry about the poor level of support the past week and a half. I’ve been relocating from Scotland to Greece.
I’ll contact you through our chat system regarding your refund.
As for the warning in the plugin, I think maybe you’re on an older version of the plugin? If so, please re-download the latest version from your account page since there was an older version which had a bug around the auto-update, so updates weren’t happening properly.
AnthonyReview of Auto Infinite Scroll, March 21st, 2019
I usually avoid giving unfavourable reviews in public and prefer to contact the plugin authors in private as I do not wish to affect their business. However, I have no choice but need to resort to writing this review here.
This plugin author Dave provides extremely poor support. I had sent him many support request emails with no reply. This is vastly unlike other plugin authors who promptly reply and fix any issues within several hours.
This plugin persistently gives this error “Creating default object from empty value in /home/whi2/wp-content/plugins/auto-infinite-scroll/plugin-updates/plugin-update-checker.php on line 224 “.
Instead of fixing this problem, Dave told me to turn off the debug notice in wp-config.php. I had subsequently sent him many emails, asking if turning off the debug would be a risky measure and whether he intends to come up with a patch for this problem. He simply refuses to reply.
Dave, please issue me a refund. There are problems with several of your plugins and I am not getting technical support/help from you.
Thanks.
Dave Hilditch - March 21st, 2019
Hi – I’m really sorry about the poor level of support the past week and a half. I’ve been relocating from Scotland to Greece.
I’ll contact you through our chat system regarding your refund.
As for the warning in the plugin, I think maybe you’re on an older version of the plugin? If so, please re-download the latest version from your account page since there was an older version which had a bug around the auto-update, so updates weren’t happening properly.
MarkusReview of External Images, February 12th, 2019
Bought external images and scalability pro. 5 stars for both of them. Thank you for these superb plugins which really boosted my website speed and product imports.
savvasReview of Scalability Pro, February 3rd, 2019
I can’t praise enough this plugin. It helped me scale my woocommerce site. Importing products now it’s a breeze! Scalability pro cut the importing time to half (i am also using external images). Also my site loads much much faster than previously! Next stop: super speedy search and faster woo widgets.
If you want to scale your woocommerce site don’t miss Dave’s plugins. They are a must.
Thanks Dave
savvasReview of External Images, February 3rd, 2019
I was looking to make my wordpress site faster. I ended buying/using scalability pro. Excellent product, amazing performance for my site. After importing thousands of products my server lagged due to the enormous amount of images that i imported. External images to the rescue!!!! With the external images i keep my server clean and my site super fast!!! No more unnecessary thumbnails.
By the way support from Dave is first class!! Top notch developer!! Top notch support!
Highly recommended plugin!!! AAA
Thanks Dave for the awesome plugins and support!!!!
Dave HilditchReview of External Images, December 30th, 2018
Hi – thank you for your kind comments, and thank you for your help improving the plugin 🙂
Ida NielsenReview of External Images, December 29th, 2018
Some time ago I bought this plugin and it always worked smoothly. Recently there were some WordPress updates and my website broke (probably because of the Gutenberg editor addition).
I contacted the support/developer (Dave) and in few days my problem was completely solved! The plugin is now even better than before and I’m sure it will keep improving.
To sum up, I definitely recommend this External Images plugin, by far the best in the market!
Dave Hilditch - December 30th, 2018
Hi – thank you for your kind comments, and thank you for your help improving the plugin 🙂
Dave HilditchReview of External Images, November 30th, 2018
Hi – sorry for the delay – there’s an upgrade out today which should fix any issues you are experiencing.
I’m now working on documentation for External Images for the rare themes that do not use the correct functions to grab thumbnails etc – even with these themes, External Images will work but with those it will take a little modification to your child theme.
DynamicaReview of External Images, November 27th, 2018
Unfortunately this plugin doesn’t work on my websites. I have asked for the refund and I’m waiting, but nobody is answering.
Dave Hilditch - November 30th, 2018
Hi – sorry for the delay – there’s an upgrade out today which should fix any issues you are experiencing.
I’m now working on documentation for External Images for the rare themes that do not use the correct functions to grab thumbnails etc – even with these themes, External Images will work but with those it will take a little modification to your child theme.
Dave HilditchReview of Auto Infinite Scroll, August 29th, 2018
Sorry – my main support guy moved to another country so July/beginning of August was tough.
sven.jasperReview of Auto Infinite Scroll, August 3rd, 2018
Extremely bad support! didn’t have any update or fedback for months. Created a Slack channel but the response rate is even poor than using email to communicate.
Dave Hilditch - August 29th, 2018
Sorry – my main support guy moved to another country so July/beginning of August was tough.
bkentliReview of External Images, June 12th, 2018
Since HTTPS became standart I was having trouble compiling with https rules on my woocommerce site, since my images are hosted on a non-https server. With External images my non-https images become https via proxy on my server.
Altough it did not work immediately as I install it due to a problem on my word press theme, great support from Dave and his team kicked in and solved the problem on the theme.
Great Plugin, Great Team, Great Support…
Many thanks!
joe.digitaloceanReview of Price Comparison Pro, May 6th, 2018
I was originally after the scalability pro plugin with no interest in a plugin like Price Comparison Pro. Long story short I was blessed to have it fall in my lap. I never thought I could integrate a plugin like this in any of the sites I build. Now I am trying to build sites around it. Supper bad ass plugin that opens the doors to a lot of concepts you never knew were possible. Truthfully a must have for entrepreneurs.
joe.digitaloceanReview of Scalability Pro, May 6th, 2018
It took me almost a year to find this plugin. I can truthfully say it is without question a must have if you have any intensions of scaling woocommerce. Not to mention awesome support the few issues I had because of my theme were taken care of by Dave himself. Not only did he fix the small issues with my theme he took the time via my request to touch up my database while he was in there. Thank again I am thankful for your help and putting up with my relentless questions. Utmost respect – joe miller
BACKTHEN2017Review of External Images, February 27th, 2018
I’ve been looking for this kind of plugin to speed up my web for months . I have to admit It bothered me for a long time. And it’s so wired I didn’t find any one (no matter a free or paid one) until I watched the video of this plugin “external images” on youtube. At first, I thought this might be a plugin like others just supporting embedding pictures, not storing on remote vps. After watched the video, I knew this is the one I’ve been looking for. Now I can store all the pictures (thousands) on amazon s3 for my website, and don’t need to worry about the loading speed of my website. This is the best plugin ever!
coryReview of Scalability Pro, February 14th, 2018
This plugin is brilliant!!! Would give it 10 stars if I could. Brought the site loading times down to less than 2 seconds – was sitting at about 10 seconds before. Had a few problems with the configuration but the support was great and got me setup in no time. I highly recommend this plugin.
walshie1987Review of Auto Infinite Scroll, January 19th, 2018
After already seeing huge speed increases with the Scalability Pro plugin I decided to purchase the rest of the plugins in the WPI Performance Pack, including this Auto Infinite Scroll plugin. Within a few minutes I had configured the wrapper parameters and I was up an running. It works perfectly!!
A great feature is when the user clicks on a product from the shop page and then clicks the “back” button this plugin remembers where they were on the shop page and saves them scrolling back down to where they were – this is something I’ve never seen before and I’ve used ALOT of infinite scrollers!
By combining the plugins from the WPIntense I now have a WordPress site with over 5k items on an average server with load times of under 3secs! I really can’t rate WPIntense enough. In a competitive online world customer experience is everything and WPIntense have realised this. Thanks for everything!
Dave HilditchReview of Auto Infinite Scroll, January 7th, 2018
I’m truly sorry you had a bad experience with this plugin. I have many people using it successfully but there WAS an issue with certain themes/plugins if they loaded jQuery twice. This caused the plugin’s JavaScript code to fail which could in turn cause other JavaScript to fail.
I’ve recoded the way the JavaScript works in the plugin so that even if jQuery is loaded multiple times (a bad idea for many reasons) it will not break.
BART RONSMANSReview of Auto Infinite Scroll, December 19th, 2017
This plugin is fucking up my website, and support from WP intense is very poor…..
Dave Hilditch - January 7th, 2018
I’m truly sorry you had a bad experience with this plugin. I have many people using it successfully but there WAS an issue with certain themes/plugins if they loaded jQuery twice. This caused the plugin’s JavaScript code to fail which could in turn cause other JavaScript to fail.
I’ve recoded the way the JavaScript works in the plugin so that even if jQuery is loaded multiple times (a bad idea for many reasons) it will not break.
HarrisReview of Scalability Pro, December 15th, 2017
Works very well, noticeable results immediately.
Dave HilditchReview of Scalability Pro, December 13th, 2017
Thanks Paul. It’s great to hear your feedback and I’m glad the plugin helps a lot. There’s more coming soon to shave more milliseconds off those page load speeds. In particular, I’ll be focusing on WP_Term_Query optimisations which are probably what are taking up the last of your slow load. (I consider 2s to still be slow)
Paul A.Review of Scalability Pro, December 12th, 2017
My client site has about 10k products variations. Page loading time was around 10s, and by adding this plugin and doing a quick setup by following the guide, the WooCommerce pages now load in 2s. Still a bit more tweaking to do on my side with a few different options, but this plugin took my client site from being useless (yes a 10s load time for product pages renders your site useless!) to very useful 😉
Thanks for the great plugin and support!
Dave Hilditch - December 13th, 2017
Thanks Paul. It’s great to hear your feedback and I’m glad the plugin helps a lot. There’s more coming soon to shave more milliseconds off those page load speeds. In particular, I’ll be focusing on WP_Term_Query optimisations which are probably what are taking up the last of your slow load. (I consider 2s to still be slow)
windowshopkenyaReview of Price Comparison Pro, October 25th, 2017
Awesome plugin from an awesome developer.
This is just one of the best plugins for price comparison works very well plus the support is just great. you actually feel you are working with the developer and He gives you great guidance on how to configure the plugin. However, more documentation is needed, I am sure this will came with time though. Great Job
Dave HilditchReview of Scalability Pro, June 26th, 2017
Hi – thanks for the detailed review.
Regarding missing filters – there was a bug introduced in the last version which caused this error on some setups, to do with adding the manual sorting functionality.
A fix has been coded up and is ready to be deployed, I’m just adding compatibility with the WooBrands plugin before I deploy.
re: Match against search (instead of like) this functionality was removed from Scalability Pro and has been added to a separate plugin called Super Speed Search which everyone who has purchased Scalability Pro to date will get for free. This new plugin is almost ready and is so fast that the search results update using ajax as you type (tested on 800,000+ product reference site).
Sorry about the delay with these releases – I’ve been working on making super speedy search as compatible as possible with as many themes as possible.
Dave HilditchReview of Scalability Pro, April 16th, 2017
Yes it works in multisite but it may not yet optimise everything – I’m working on this.
I’m unsure about Ajax Search Pro – if it uses, presumably it does, the WP_Query object to perform its search, then these will be replaced by Scalability Pro with a full text search which is faster and more accurate.
If any of these things do not work to your satisfaction, I will fix them for you or refund you.
Dave HilditchReview of Scalability Pro, April 6th, 2017
Yes it alters the WooCommerce text search to use the MATCH operator and a fulltext index rather than the awful default of the LIKE operator.
That means faster and more accurate free-text search results.