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 […]
Learn which of these 3 XML sitemap plugins is the only one that can scale, and how to achieve it!
If you’ve been following my stack guides, you’ll have seen how popular my previous stack-build guides were. That’s because they were incredibly fast for the price of the server you’re using. My previous guides included installing Varnish and PerconaDB. In this guide, these have both been replaced with new and better alternatives. Update: Since writing […]