WordPress Development Updates - Super Speedy Plugins

Development Updates

Regular updates from the development front, sharing insights, challenges and behind the scenes insights of ongoing plugin development. For even more up to date info, check out our plugin changelogs.

Development Updates

New SQL enhancement for Scalability Pro to fix WooCommerce long-running query in the product-hero block

Dave Hilditch August 31, 2023

We've been busy setting up our Speed Test environment so we can exhaustively measure all the themes and plugins out there and discover more ...

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Speeding up WooCommerce 7 (wp-admin and imports)

Dave Hilditch November 4, 2022

I wrote previously about the slow code that exists in WooCommerce for Onboarding tasks. They misuse the database in 4 separate areas and I've ...

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More speed boosts for wp-admin and imports with Scalability Pro upgrade

Dave Hilditch October 12, 2022

The WordPress dashboard can get quite slow as your website grows which is why we're always on top of it and adding more code to Scalability Pro to ...

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Making WordPress Faster and Greener

Glyn Storms September 6, 2022

Dave Hilditch of Super Speedy Plugins is back at WordCamp. This time at WordCamp Athens 2022, hosted at Megaron Athens Concert Hall, Dave covers ...

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Upgrade options added to your account page

Dave Hilditch July 20, 2022

Up until now, we've been relying on creating manual coupons for users who wish to upgrade. There are many upgrade paths available when you buy our ...

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Performance boost for WooCommerce onboarding code on large sites

Dave Hilditch June 7, 2022

If you have a large site, you probably noticed wp-admin slowing down a lot with the later versions of WooCommerce. WooCommerce have been working ...

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Getting the price right

Dave Hilditch May 18, 2022

Pricing products is never easy - sometimes you drop the price and it actually reduces sales! Over the past few weeks I've been considering how to ...

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Super Speedy Pack Soft Launch

Dave Hilditch March 9, 2022

Yesterday, to practically zero fanfare, we launched the new Super Speedy Pack. This new pack is available for per-year licensing (unlimited sites) ...

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Help – we need a better name for Faster Woo Widgets!

Dave Hilditch June 10, 2021

Faster Woo Widgets is our plugin that replaces the default WooCommerce filters with faster, better alternatives. Over the past 6 months I've been ...

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I’ve hired two new people!

Dave Hilditch April 21, 2021

Exciting news in these difficult times - I've hired two new people, Glyn and Kerry, to help me improve and complete the documentation for all of our ...

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Bug fix sprint

Dave Hilditch April 7, 2021

Faster Woo Widgets is still in beta, but the latest beta is looking very, very good. The next thing to be added - next week - are two long-awaited ...

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Adding a custom taxonomy widget to Faster Woo Widgets

Dave Hilditch March 1, 2021

Our Faster Woo Widgets upgrades have been in beta for a while now - the latest beta version of FWW has many improvements to help you make your ...

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December Development Update

Dave Hilditch December 7, 2020

I haven't written a dev diary update for quite a while - Over the past few months I've been preparing a lot of back-end stuff to make my life ...

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Manual update for Super Speedy Search required

Dave Hilditch September 4, 2020

I became aware a few days ago that I'd inadvertently broken the automatic updates for this plugin and so users haven't been receiving updates. To ...

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How to enable debug.log to collect WordPress error messages

Dave Hilditch September 2, 2020

If you are submitting a bug report or a support ticket, it will be very helpful if you can also submit your debug.log file that includes details of ...

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More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins

Dave Hilditch July 2, 2020

If you've been paying attention, development has been moving forward quickly on External Images and Super Speedy Search. The changes that were ...

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