Cache WooCommerce Currency from GeoIP with Varnish 4 vmod

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…

Install Latest Memcached Object Cache WordPress PHP5 Debian

Memcached can be used to speed up WordPress and WooCommerce. Many WordPress plugins and themes use transients as settings. These transients are temporary and by default are stored in the MySQL database. This means MySQL will be used when retrieving these settings from the database stored on the hard drive. Memcached uses RAM to store … Learn more…

Install + Configure Elasticsearch to Speed up WooCommerce Search

WooCommerce often requires a powerful server to run smoothly. For anybody who has a large store with thousands of products or orders, you may have experienced a slow WooCommerce backend in the wp-admin area when doing management tasks. One way to fix slow WooCommerce product or order search is to use the power of Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is … Learn more…

Install + Configure Varnish 3 Cache with nginx for WooCommerce Speed

Varnish is one of the best WooCommerce caching solutions I have tried. I’ve managed to get WooCommerce shop load times under 1 second! The Varnish control language (vcl) gives you incredible control over what should be cached and how, providing greater flexibility than with nginx proxy or fastcgi cache systems. Using Varnish will give your … Learn more…

Autoupdate WordPress Site Plugins with WP-CLI Bash Script Cronjob

We all know how important it is to keep your WordPress plugins updated to maintain security and avoid being hacked. A WordPress plugin vulnerability database is maintained by WPScan and can be found here. It is a tedious task to update multiple WordPress installations, some tools exist like ManageWP and InfiniteWP to ease the monotony. … Learn more…