WordPress OPCache plugin

Use this plugin to display detailed information about your server’s OPCache, including memory utilisation, list of all scripts cached and a useful memory utilisation visualisation based on the file system tree. read more

Deploying via a symlink and optimising OPcache

This is a very technical post. It’s about the way we are deploying new versions of the Alpine Booking system to the thirty clubs that are currently using the system. Previously, each club had a copy of the source code in the webroot for their domain. These were deployed using rsync – the steps were as follows:

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WordPress Development Offline

The most usual way to develop software is for the developer(s) to work on their personal computer, with a code repository mediating inputs from multiple developers, such as SVN or GIT. Even a solo developer might use a code repository to manage the code they are developing, to get reliable versioning and deployment tools.

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WooCommerce and image sizes

WooCommerce is possibly the most commonly used shopping cart used with WordPress, it’s a free plugin. The way the items and catalogs display is determined by the particular WordPress theme that the site is using. Each theme will determine the sizes of various thumbnails and images throughout the WooCommerce pages.

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