Category: WordPress

  • WordCamp Melbourne 2013: WordPress Performance Tuning

    At the recent WordCamp Melbourne, I spoke about WordPress Performance Tuning, the mindset you need to take, and what kind of problems you need to watch out for. The video just landed on WordPress.tv, so here it is for you to enjoy!

  • Introducing: Automatic Updater for WordPress

    Are you sick of having to wait several seconds for your WordPress site to update? Tired of your plugins not being updated as soon as an update is available? Well, do I have the solution for you! Automatic Updater for WordPress is a light-weight plugin that downloads and installs updates as soon as they become…

  • Preventing Users From Accessing wp-admin

    If you have a WordPress site that you allow people to sign up for, you often don’t want them to be able to access wp-admin. It’s not that there are any security issues, you just want to ensure that your users are accessing your site in a predictable manner. To block non-admin users from getting…

  • Partitioning the WordPress Comments Table

    WordPress sites can get big. Really big. When you’re looking at a site of Cheezburger, Engadget or Techcrunch proportions, you get hundreds of comments per post, on dozens of posts per day, which adds up to millions of comments per year. In order to keep your site running in top condition, you don’t want to…

  • Stats for WordPress plugins and themes hosted on wordpress.org

    I am a stats addict. For all of the sites I work on, there’s a link in my Google Analytics account to show me the statistics for that site. Unfortunately, there’s one site missing from the chain: wordpress.org. Job Manager is hosted there, but I cannot see the visitor statistics. Google Code allows you to…