Tutorials

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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.

September 25, 2022

Optimising Frontend Resources with Perfmatters & Grunt

This is part 7 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. In this tutorial you will learn how to use the excellent Perfmatters Plugins. We will boost the frontend performance of our Wordpress & WooCommerce store by joining and minifying CSS and JS resources using tools like Gulp or Grunt.

October 29, 2022

Fixing the bottleneck Transactional Emails

This is part 6 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. In this article we will take an in-depth look at transactional emails, and how to optimise your stores performance by deactivating non-essential emails and by sending email asynchronously to your customers.

January 3, 2022

Replacing WordPress Cron and Scheduled Actions with a real cronjob

This is part 14 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. In this article we will install the Crontrol Plugin to get visibility into which fake cronjob Wordpress is executing and if applicable we will deactivate the Wordpress Cron logic altogether and instead have a real cronjob execute the events.

January 3, 2022

Enable, configure and monitor PHPs OPCache

This is part 12 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. This article focuses on the configuration of PHP's OPCache.

February 13, 2023

Improve WordPress & WooCommerce DB indexes for all meta tables

This is part 9 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. This article focuses on Wordpress's poor table indexes and how to improve them. In particular all the meta tables, which are used heavily throughout a Wordpress site.

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