Our primary mission at WP Intense is to help you never have to worry about WordPress performance ever again. Regardless of which hosting company you are using, placing Cloudflare in front of your WordPress website can boost your sites performance in two key ways. Unwanted traffic from botnet hackers and bad SEO bots can severely […]
Dave Hilditch of WP Intense is back at WordCamp. This time at WordCamp Athens 2022, hosted at Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Dave covers speeding up WordPress and simultaneously keeping unnecessary power consumption down. Two birds with one stone. For more information about boosting performance, here’s Dave’s complete WordPress performance guide. Slides for ‘Making WordPress Faster […]
A customer asked me for helping speeding up their imports. They are using WP All Import to import their products and keep the prices and other details updated, and while the imports were working fast for them at the start, the imports gradually slowed down to the point where they kept failing. Scalability Pro is […]
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 […]
I use Xdebug regularly to help clients figure out why their PHP processes are consuming all the CPU. If you haven’t tried it yet, I have an old article covering how to install and configure Xdebug. In the example below, the object cache is in use, and you can see from the Query Monitor plugin […]
A client came to me recently to get help with identifying why their site was so slow when users were logged out. Normally, the opposite is true – normally, logged in users aren’t benefiting from page-caching or other forms of caching, and normally logged in users – e.g. admin – have more content to load, […]
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 […]
At WP Intense we have been making WordPress plugins to speed up your website for the past 4 years. Originally, this started out of a desire to build massive affiliate stores and discovering that vanilla WooCommerce is too slow for this. We now have a suite of plugins to help optimise and scale your site […]
Obviously we love our own plugins to help you speed up your WordPress website. But we don’t only use our plugins on our websites. Here are the key third-party plugins we also use for maximum WordPress speed: Autoptimize This plugin is great for minifying and combining CSS. On non-Chrome browsers, this can give massive speed […]
In the article below, I cover various tips and tricks to help you run your WordPress stack smoothly and easily. It’s focused around my Rocket Stack build, but can be tailored to any stack really. If you’re experiencing performance issues, you will probably also find my performance analysis guide useful. Securing your website Securing your […]