Cron is a scheduled task system that runs on Linux. WordPress has its own version of cron that it calls wp-cron. This is where all of the scheduled tasks from WordPress core, plugins and themes store their future jobs to run (WooCommerce uses something called action_scheduler for many of its background processes). Sometimes you do … Learn more…
You may want to separate your server-side nginx cache between mobile and desktop users determined by their browser. This guide will show you how to configure your nginx fastcgi or reverse proxy cache to have separate caches for mobile and desktop user agents. You can make this work for Redis cache integrated with nginx too. … Learn more…
WordPress performance has become incredibly important these days. Google has devoted an engineering team for WordPress performance development! Knowing which code is slowing your site down can help boost visitor retention and improve conversion rates for WooCommerce. XHProf is an amazing tool that can help you identify bottlenecks in your WordPress code. This took me … Learn more…
Redis is a key value storage system that can be configured to speed up websites and those running WordPress and WooCommerce. It is typically used as the fast storage system for WordPress and WooCommerce external object cache (using for example this plugin). But Redis has grown and become more versatile! You can actually build modules … Learn more…
WPML is crazy popular and by far the preferred and dominant translation engine for WordPress. It is quite common for clients to complain that WPML is slow for one reason or another. One of the primary causes of a slow WPML site is the translation string tracking. By default, WPML wants to make you happy … Learn more…