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 […]
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 […]
A client of mine is using the Avada theme – personally I hate this theme, but it is the most popular seller over on Themeforest. As you can see from the video below, the Avada theme on my client’s site is running some custom SQL code to grab post ID’s for matching image URLs. There […]