Beta development of Faster Woo Widgets, Scalability Pro and Super Speedy Search continues at pace. If you’re out of the loop, you can see the latest activity on our live Trello board and you can comment on cards if you wish to contribute: https://trello.com/b/L9XeJrWC/wp-intense-plugin-development There are a few extra people who have requested access to […]
For those who have been following progress, you’ll know that our Faster Woo Widgets plugin has had a massive overhaul. The current beta version includes bug fixes for all but one of the bugs that have been reported and pretty much every single feature request has been implemented. The only bug not yet fixed is […]
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 […]
I know it’s been a long time, but with the extra options being added to this plugin the number of test cases to check has grown exponentially. I’ve been building Selenium test scripts to test every possible combination of options for each filter to streamline and speed up future regression testing, but regardless – I […]
Ok, so I love WooCommerce, and I love speed, but this one has been on the back burner for far too long. Almost all of the refund requests for Scalability Pro that I get are because users were hoping to see their sites with 1000s or 10000s or even 100,000s of variations per product speeded […]
I’ve written in the past about building incredibly fast WordPress stacks, and in our stack maintenance guide I covered a great script to help you optimise your MySQL 8 configuration. In this guide, I’ll focus on how to record slow SQL queries with MySQL 8 and then how to install and use tools to tell […]
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last dev diary, but there has been quite a bit of activity around bug fixes. As always, the product pages include a CHANGE LOG tab where you can see the full updates but here’s a summary: Scalability Pro The main changes here were related to the WHERE […]
Hi everyone – quick update on bug fixing progress. There was a new update released yesterday with pretty much ALL bugs from Faster Woo Widgets fixed. It seems there’s one remaining which occurs with certain specific settings that I’m working on fixing now. I’ve also released an update for External Images which improves theme compatibility […]
If you’ve been following my WordPress fast stack guides, you’ll know I’m a big fan of nginx for the speed and scalability it provides. Some of you asked how to configure nginx with that stack guide to work with Yoast SEO sitemaps. The guide below covers our stacks, but will also work for any nginx […]
I’ve finally arrived and settled at my final destination. My new base is Paros in Greece – a fair distance from snowy and wintery Scotland. I have a lot of support to catch up on, something approaching 200 chats to work through. If you have been awaiting a response, I appreciate your patience and I […]