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. […]
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 […]
Over the 2 years of running WP Intense, I’ve had many questions from clients asking to review the performance of their website. In this article I’ll cover the most common issues and the easiest solutions to solve your performance and scalability. Uncached versus Cached Performance and TTFB Firstly, it’s important to understand why uncached performance […]
Some of you might remember the angry contractor incident from a couple of months ago. An ex-contractor of mine, still a contractor at the time had author privileges, and decided to write an article called “Why WP Intense is a scam!”. He was angry because of an invoice dispute – I was disputing the hours […]