Memcached is a high speed caching system for storing objects in RAM. It works well with WordPress and WooCommerce as an object cache for storing transients so they are not stored in the MySQL database. On WooCommerce particularly object caching can help considerably because of the number of transients used by plugins and orders. Unix sockets … Learn more…
CloudFlare is a pretty sweet free security, firewall and acceleration service that I use on all my WordPress sites. The old CloudFlare API is being retired shortly (November 2016, source). Since the CloudFlare v4 API is already live, I wanted to be prepared for the new API switch. I use fail2ban to protect my wp-login … Learn more…
MemberMouse is a premium WordPress plugin for creating your own membership site. Usually you have a free member status and various premium member statuses depending on their subscription level. When a premium user’s membership expires, MemberMouse does not automatically downgrade that user’s membership status to the free tier. They do show you how to do … Learn more…
Suhosin hosted on github is a PHP security extension. Suhosin can protect you from insecure code and possible buffer overflows. Install Suhosin on your VPS or dedicated server only takes a few minutes and could protect you from poorly coded WordPress plugins. This tutorial was tested on Debian 7 (Wheezy), 8 (Jessie) and Ubuntu 14.04 … Learn more…
Aelia Currency Switcher allows WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads online business owners to display their products in different currencies depending on the visitor’s geolocation. It works by probing each visitor’s IP address and setting the currency based on their country, city or other parameters the business owner has chosen to decide the currency. I had a long … Learn more…