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August 3, 2022

Automate Database Backups

This is a tiny bash script, supposed to be executed via cronjob, which helps you back up your MySQL database on a regular basis.

January 3, 2022

Manage and reduce logging in your production environment

This is part 8 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. There are many reasons why one might want to log data on an e-commerce website. Data is crucial for reports, analysis, debugging and more. Here we take a look at what to log when and what not.

January 5, 2022

Summary of Must-Have WordPress Plugins for improved Performance

This is a quick overview, a summary of all plugins mentioned in my article series on Wordpress and WooCommerce performance. I consider them mandatory or least very helpful to improve overall site performance.

December 12, 2022

Pre-compress static assets with Brotli and Gzip

This is part 26 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. Pre-compressing static assets reduces the CPU load of your server and avoids to compress static files upon each an every request. Here's how you can do that with Gzip, Brotli and Grunt.

January 7, 2022

Use In-Memory Object Caches like Memcached or Redis

This is part 25 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. Using Memcached or Redis to store Wordpress's WP_Object_Cache into memory can greatly improve site performance.

January 4, 2022

Avoid WordPress’ gettext functionality

This is part 23 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. Although it's a practical feature, a major reason for the success of Wordpress, and yet PHP's gettext is slow, because with each of your plugins, the number of slow physical file reads increases. Here we talk about avoiding the internationalisation and localisation features of Wordpress to speed up site performance.

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