A customer of mine was seeing a 15 second load time on their WordPress site when clicking on “Comments”. I installed Query Monitor and saw that the Akismet plugin was running the following SQL command on each comment. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_comments WHERE user_id = 1820 AND comment_approved = 1; This query was to show how many comments the user had previously … Read more
The following was a post I made on the WordPress Speed Up FaceBook Group. I thought it was worth posting here in-case someone else might be looking for something similar. Olly Bee Excellent! First load for me was a white page without CSS being applied. Which is weird, I haven’t gone to the site before. … Read more
From time to time, you’ll need to look at data within MySQL dump files, specifically I do it mostly with WordPress. There isn’t an easy way to search the dump unless you use grep. Here are some useful grep commands. Pull out a table. [enlighter linenumbers=”true”] grep ‘INSERT INTO `wp_bspr_users`’ dump.sql > /tmp/users.sql [/enlighter] Format … Read more
You might have seen the following Posts in your WordPress blog after installing the CloudFlare Cache Plugin. SUCCESS : automatic purge url cache for wordpress plugin This is actually something the plugin is suppose to do, but there is no option to turn it off. And it looks like the plugin hasn’t been updated in … Read more
I decided to create a command line PHP script that would list the current iThemes Security Logs and also allow you to remove them based on IP Address. Here is the script which I’ve called “ithemes-clearip.php” and it’s Github link, its dirty and really was made in like 15 minutes. https://github.com/jordantrizz/wordpress-scripts <? // List and … Read more
You won’t find much within the support forums in-regards to how to stop the Displet Pop plugin from loading on specific pages. However, I was able to find some pre-created code that does accomplish the task and just modified it for the Displet Pop plugin. function remove_displet_pop() { $ids = array(1358,1226); // ID’s of the … Read more
I recently installed the plugin Wordpres SEO by Yoast on my this blog, and others. It was recommended by one of those top 10-20-50 WordPress Plugin posts you find all over the place. You can read more about Yoast and their plugin on their website http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/ One of the features that comes in handy quite often … Read more
You’ll find sometime that when you deploy WordPress in order for permalinks to work correctly you need a proper .htaccess file. This .htaccess also affects anything else you place within your web root when WordPress lives. For instance if you need to password protect a directory within the your webroot where WordPress lives. You’ll find … Read more
I didn’t really know what to put for the title of this post, but hopefully the content makes more sense and gets indexed properly and found by people looking for this specific information. The problem is when you install WordPress and setup Permalinks which uses a .htaccess file for Apache. The .htaccess make cause problems … Read more
Alright, I was stumbling around looking for some things and found this wonderful plugin called WordTwit This plugin is awesome! Not only is it really clean and done well, but it has multiple URL Shortening services. No Bit.ly login support at the moment. However there is one great thing about it that I love. The … Read more