There are some common performance problems people come to me with. Probably the most annoying of all of these for my customers is telling them not to use the WooCommerce ‘on sale’ shortcode. The code inside is really awful for performance, hurting the trifecta of RAM, disk and CPU on your poor wee server. What […]
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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 […]