Shortcodes are super useful in WordPress. They allow you to easily output a feature or function anywhere on your site. But what happens if you no longer need the shortcode or want to update it to another shortcode? In this tutorial there is a simple and advanced regex version for batch updating your WordPress shortcodes … Learn more…
Slow database queries can really kill the performance and user experience of your WordPress site or WooCommerce store. Most users will try Query Monitor to identify slow MySQL queries on their site which is a fantastic plugin. If you want to gather data over time you can use New Relic which is incredibly valuable. Today … Learn more…
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…
Sometimes plugins get purchased and totally revamped. This can go well and make your user base very happy but it can also have the opposite effect. For ExactMetrics the re-branding went terribly and users became irate leaving enough 1 star reviews to completely tank the plugin’s previously stellar, almost perfect 5 star rating. I was … Learn more…