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June 17, 2022

Throwback Thursday

Here’s a 30 minute mini mix of mine from 2020. A selection of deep house tracks, that I still enjoy listening to today.

Filed under Mixes

December 15, 2022

Build & Watch SASS files and other frontend assets with PHP

I use NodeJS, its package manager NPM, and even NVM to install different versions of NPM in many projects to build frontend assets. My recurring use case is: compile some SASS files into CSS, join some files, minify the output, copy fonts and icon fonts, pre-compress static assets, and so on. I am familiar with helper tools like Grunt and Gulp to set up these tasks. In a recent PHP project, I tried to avoid the use of NodeJS/NPM. I was surprised how easy it is to achieve the same results with nothing but plain old PHP.

Filed under PHP
& Tutorials

January 7, 2022

Full Import/Export Profiles for Shopware 6

The Shopware 6 Importer/Exporter comes with pre-made default profiles. Unfortunately, these default profiles do not include all possible fields and columns. Because adding each mapping and column one by one in the backend is pretty slow, it’s easier to just run the following two queries. After that, you will have full profiles including all available […]

Filed under MySQL and MariaDB
& Shopware 6

January 6, 2022

WebP Support in WordPress and image conversion

This is part 17 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. While JPEG and PNG have been a de-facto standard for storing images for the web for a long time, webp is here to change that. With an estimated reduction of 30% of storage space requirement, the impact for improved load times, and bandwidth usage is significant. Wordpress comes with support for WebP since version 5.8.

January 3, 2022

Deactivate the REST API

This is part 13 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. In this article we take a brief look at the Wordpress REST API and how deactivating it may or may not boost your sites' performance.

January 3, 2022

Deactivate automatic updates

This is part 16 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. While automatic updates seems to be a good idea for blogs and smaller websites – in Ecommerce this feature might set you up for disaster. Disable automatic updates, in order for you to control plugin and core updates in a stable (development, staging, production) environment.

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