WordPress Plugin, Theme & Builder Insights

Plugin, Theme & Builder Insights

Evaluations of plugins, themes, builders and their features or flaws, highlighting their performance impacts, with emphasis on recent versions or updates.

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WooCommerce 9.6.1 can break your store if you use brands

Dave Hilditch February 7, 2025

A customer of mine came to me with a problem. They had updated their staging site to 9.6.1 and then all of a sudden all of his brand URLs were 404 ...

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Avoid the Express Checkout option on the WooCommerce Stripe Gateway plugin to speed up Woo Variations

Dave Hilditch September 7, 2022

A potential client arrived yesterday on my Discord channel asking for help with slow WooCommerce Variations. It turns out, in their case, they only ...

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Product Customer List for WooCommerce plugin misuses the wp_options table

Dave Hilditch September 7, 2022

I actually discovered this performance issue right here on our own website. Normally I discover performance issues on client or customer websites. ...

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Slow HTTP API Calls due to WooCommerce Experimental Tracking

Craig S. July 6, 2022

After getting my website home page load time down to 1.3 seconds, with the help of Scalability Pro, Super Speedy Filters and Super Speedy Search, ...

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Performance review for Yith Wishlist (it’s bad, but they fixed it in 24 hours)

Dave Hilditch July 17, 2019

A client came to me recently to get help with identifying why their site was so slow when users were logged out. Normally, the opposite is true - ...

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Why the WooCommerce Products On Sale shortcode sucks (including a free plugin to fix it)

Dave Hilditch February 7, 2018

Note: Faster Woo Widgets has been renamed to Super Speedy Filters and a lot of progress has been made since this article was released. The original ...

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PushEngage Plugin Performance Warning

Dave Hilditch March 8, 2017

I'm busy working on a cool new plugin to let me chat directly with my customers. When I finally migrated the plugin over to my AWD site I found ...

WooCommerce 9.6.1 can break your store if you use brands

Avoid the Express Checkout option on the WooCommerce Stripe Gateway plugin to speed up Woo Variations

Product Customer List for WooCommerce plugin misuses the wp_options table

Slow HTTP API Calls due to WooCommerce Experimental Tracking

Performance review for Yith Wishlist (it’s bad, but they fixed it in 24 hours)

Why the WooCommerce Products On Sale shortcode sucks (including a free plugin to fix it)

PushEngage Plugin Performance Warning

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