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People are using the Index WP MySQL For Speed WordPress plugin! That’s great. But it shoots into the dark: nobody can tell how much improvement they’ve seen except subjectively. That’s not good. It’s hard to improve something unless we can actually measure it. Two things can make a troublesome query. If it runs just once … Read more
This pulls together some notes on handling plugin programming for WordPress multisite (network) installations. Basic information Lots of this information comes from the globally instantiated $wpdb object. Tables To get a list of WordPress tables you can use the wpdb::tables() method. Here’s a quick way to get a useful list of tables. This list include … Read more
WooCommerce and its Storefront theme display so-called category archive pages to list products in the category. If the category includes a description, it shows at the top of the page along with the category’s name. This php snippet adds an Edit link to those pages allowing a privileged user logged in to the Dashboard to … Read more
Writing a WordPress plugin I had to dig around to figure out maintenance mode. That’s when visitors get this message. Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute. It’s easy to do from plugin or theme code. To enter maintenance mode Write a file named .maintenance into your document root with something like … Read more
