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I don’t know about how long it will take to create that many tables, especially if you do it in one go, but you can use $wpdb to handle the creation. There’s an article on the Codex regarding creating custom tables, https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins And it crossed my mind that perhaps using some external tool to handle … Read more

Performance hit of Inline CSS

Theme customization pages usually dump those css customizations into a <style></style> block directly in the page head, which counts as inline styles. Some plugins will drop styles there too. Anytime you use third-party plugins, or themes, it’s inevitable that you will run into some inline issues. There’s a balancing act of cost – is the … Read more

Get all top categories, then only 3 posts for each

Page flashes/flickers on every page load

Simple way to hide\show an announcement (just a div) on homepage?

The fastest and easiest way would be to use Advanced Custom Fields Pro (ACF) to create a custom metabox for your announcement. They have a resources page with lots of examples for you to pick from, and even more recipes available from community contributions. Tuts Plus has a great tutorial for getting started with ACF. … Read more

What could explain an extremely high TTFB (~20-30s) when not logged in, but then drastically reduced when logged in?

WordPress Performance and bulk edits

Yes and no. Servers only have so many resources to work with, and bulk edits are expensive requests. Lets take an analogy: You’re a secretary, and somebody asks you to modify modify the title of 400 reports. Doing it once might take 2 seconds, but 400×2 is 800 seconds or ~14 minutes. Another part of … Read more

Which is faster: Loading images from the repo, or loading them using ACF Image Content via Media Library

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“edit page” not loading

How can I figure out what is making my WordPress site so slow?

Best way to store 1 billion+ posts?