There are several WordPress user enumeration methods that exist for listing information about WordPress users on a site publicly. User enumeration is considered a security vulnerability and can be scanned with several security scanner tools like WP Scan (GitHub). These Continue reading Block WordPress User Enumeration with nginx Completely
Would you invest $10,000 once to make $60,000 extra in revenue every month? Seems like an easy decision, right? Humans tend to make things harder for themselves, especially when an outcome isn’t guaranteed. Jori first contacted us in January 2022. Continue reading WooCommerce Performance Case Study – 5x ROI Monthly after Optimization and Intelligent Caching
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Adrien from I Speak Spoke Spoken (i3s for short) came to us with an unbelievable story about his WordPress site speed. Like many clients, Adrien had concerns about passing Google’s Core Web Vitals because almost 300 URLs were failing. He Continue reading Google Core Web Vitals Case Study – Upwork Speed Scam Turned Success!
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Troubleshooting WordPress and WooCommerce performance issues is something we do every day. It is incredibly rewarding to stabilize a site so it can do its job: make your visitors, its owner and employees happy to use it! Major bottlenecks can Continue reading Performance Troubleshooting Process for Slow Crashing WordPress Sites
Google Core Web Vitals are critical for your WordPress site’s SEO efforts if you care about organic traffic. Read how this learning languages WordPress website achieved 100% good urls in Google Search Console after a collaborative optimization effort. Kris relies Continue reading Google Core Web Vitals Optimization Case Study – Language Site Achieves 100% Good URLs
Online businesses are thriving during the weird unforgettable year of 2020. I have the pleasure of helping some very socially rich online communities who suddenly had 10x the amount of users they had before. In this case study, we focus Continue reading BuddyPress Performance Case Study – “Like” 2 minute Database Queries Down to 1 sec!
A political news site that gets attacked regularly found us in February 2021. Their team of 20+ writers produces numerous articles every day. After a round of WordPress maintenance like updating themes, plugins and WordPress core, all of a sudden Continue reading WordPress News Site Case Study – Fix Crashing Website with Constant Cloudflare 524 Errors
Core web vital optimizations for WordPress and WooCommerce are in bloom to prepare for the May 2021 Google algorithm update. This Google PageSpeed performance optimization case study is for a review website that monetizes with affiliate partnerships and advertisements. This Continue reading Google PageSpeed Case Study – Affiliate Reviews Site Scores go 90+ Green
In this first WordPress database optimization case study, average response time improves by 50% after the slow MySQL queries go from 1 minute down to 20ms. 2020 has been crazy. To deal with the insanity, many people are trying to Continue reading WordPress Database Optimization Case Study – Slow Queries from 1 minute to 20 ms!
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A slow wp-admin area in WooCommerce is a very common performance issue. The speed of your WordPress dashboard directly affects productivity and overall happiness when doing your daily admin tasks. You don’t have to live with a wp-admin dashboard (“backoffice” Continue reading WooCommerce Performance Case Study – Slow wp-admin load from over 30 secs to under 1 sec!
WooCommerce slow store case study time for B2B (business to business sales)! This WordPress site sells beautiful light fixtures aimed for other businesses. Nosa manages this multisite WooCommerce store running 68 plugins! ShareTweetSharePostSharePin It!
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When you uninstall plugins from WordPress a lot can be leftover in the database. This makes the database unnecessarily large and could even slow down queries. It is always a good idea to clean your WordPress database after removing plugins. Continue reading Clean WordPress Database after Removing Elementor Page Builder
Migrating a WordPress multisite from one host to another can be quite the undertaking. Especially if you are using domain mapping you have many domains to update with IP addresses. You may have forgotten where some of the domains are Continue reading Batch Checking Domain Nameservers for WordPress Multisite
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 Continue reading Batch Update WordPress Shortcodes with WP-CLI Search + Replace
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 Continue reading Find Slow WordPress or WooCommerce Database Queries with WP-CLI
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 schedules tasks from WordPress core, plugins and themes store their future jobs to Continue reading Configure Cavalcade for Scaling WordPress wp-cron to 100+ Jobs