If you’ve ever been debugging a large Multisite installation that’s having MySQL memory issues you know how maddening it can be. Sometimes you can turn on slow logging and find the source of the issue. But sometimes it’s not just about slow queries, it’s about the shear size of the tables and the number of [...]
Regex to Match Opening Slash
December 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Just in case anyone needs a regex that tells you that a string does NOT have an slash at the beginning, here you go. This is useful for handling paths defined by users and you want to check whether it is a relative or absolute path. preg_match(“#^(?!\/).*#”, $string);
Giving WooCommerce a Try
December 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Just a quick announcement. I’m now using WooCommerce for my eCommerce so please let me know if you have an issue. I was using Cart66 but it makes use of sessions, which are disallowed by WPEngine for both security and performance reasons. my WooCommerce setup looks ugly at the moment because I haven’t had time [...]
Simplr Registration Form Plus v2.1.9
October 8, 2012 By 111 Comments
Simplr Registration Form Plus I just pushed Simplr Registration Form Plus 2.1.9 … lots of behind the scenes updates and code fixes. Primary visual enhance is the UI for the TinyMCE shortcode button. You know longer have to type in the custom fields. You can know just check the boxes then drag and drop to [...]
Function: get_template_part_cached()
August 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In my WordCamp Chicago presentation I had an bunk version of this function. Here’s a better version. Though we could probably still improve even this: function get_template_part_cached($slug, $name, $key, $group = ‘posts’, $ttl = 3600) { if( !$output = wp_cache_get($key, $group)) { ob_start(); get_template_part($slug,$name); $output = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); wp_cache_set( $key, $output, $group, $ttl ); } [...]
Slide Deck From WordCamp Chicago
August 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Thanks everyone for coming to my presentation at WordCamp Chicago. The organizers did a great job putting everything together. Here’s my slide deck. WordCamp Chicago Slides
Thesis Cache(r) Beta – 2012-07-31
July 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Through my work at WPEngine I’ve found that using the Thesis Theme can occasionally lead to some performance issues on higher-traffic sites. Nothing spectacular, there are a ton of themes out there that have some issues scaling. Thesis is not special. But what occurred to me about Thesis, is that it really should be one of the [...]
A Wee Bit of Downtime
July 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Sorry folks, we had a wee bit of down last night due t0 my own stupidity but now we’re back up and running. Back to working too much and blogging to little. As most of you know I’ve taken a position at WPEngine and they’re working me like mad, but I’m learning all sorts of new [...]
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