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 […]
If you’ve been paying attention, development has been moving forward quickly on External Images and Super Speedy Search. The changes that were implemented into Super Speedy Search and External Images have now moved from beta to live. External Images External Images is one of our most popular plugins thanks to how much it speeds up […]
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 […]
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 year brings new opportunity for you and your website. Follow the resolutions below in the new year to give your website a fantastic start to the new year. Optimise your conversions If you’re selling something, or looking for email signups, it pays to optimise your conversions. The less onerous the task, the more […]
I realised yesterday that all the lovely updates I’ve been making for Auto Infinite Scroll have not been reaching you. In the initial release, I had neglected to include the ‘plugin-updates’ code required to perform these updates. That means, for those of you who have purchased the Auto Infinite Scroll plugin or the Full Plugin […]
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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 […]
There have been a large number of plugin updates over the past few weeks and some more which are rolling out today and tomorrow. These have been updates for: Price Comparison Pro Scalability Pro Faster Woo Widgets Super Speedy Search Auto Infinite Scroll I’m aware many of you are awaiting an update for External Images. […]
Query Monitor Snapshots Here are the Query Monitor snapshots for each page which reflect the table above – these are uncached with 820,000 products loaded into the database. Video Review of Rehub If you’d like to see the Rehub theme in action, I cover all the main points in the video below. Summary The Rehub […]
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 […]
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