Most probably it’s some kind of malicious code. What it does is: Disable error reporting Check the available methods of getting contents from remote server Send a request to a remote server Display the result of that request on your site So it’s some kind of spammy SEO links or something like that. And no, … Read more
Are you using a theme that has WooCommerce support? Look for: woocommerce_get_product_thumbnail and replace it with the_post_thumbnail This has worked before for me with A3 Lazy Load plugin.
How are the UI Elements included on the page? If you use a shortcode, you can enqueue the js part (wp_enqueue_script) within the shortcode function. Your JS will then be enqueued in the footer. The CSS would have to be enqueued of course in the header, so you have to enqueue it in the wp_enqueue_scripts … Read more
Assuming the redirect is for a resource or page that does not exist then you are most probably better off using a redirect plugin, not .htaccess, in order to prioritise “normal site visitors” and not the redirected traffic. With a redirect plugin, the redirect logic need only be processed for requests that would otherwise return … Read more
This plugin, Index WP MySQL for Speed, is released. GPLed source code is here. Anecdotal experience shows speedups on some big WP and WooCommerce sites. Here’s the data definition language it runs to create useful compound indexes. ALTER TABLE wp_postmeta ADD UNIQUE KEY meta_id (meta_id); ALTER TABLE wp_postmeta DROP PRIMARY KEY; ALTER TABLE wp_postmeta ADD … Read more
I’d reach out directly to that plugin developer to relate your concerns, and if they’re not responsive consider a different plugin. But in the meantime, you can use wp_dequeue_script() and wp_dequeue_style() and their counterparts wp_enqueue_script/style to remove the stuff that’s slowing down your site. This answer has more detail on how to move scripts from … Read more
Do you have access to a SQL client program like phpmyadmin or something similar? If so give this query SELECT option_id, option_name, LENGTH(option_value) FROM wp_options WHERE autoload = ‘yes’ AND option_name NOT LIKE ‘_transient%’ ORDER BY 3 DESC LIMIT 20; You’ll see the top twenty auto loaded options in descending order of length. Eyeball the … Read more
It looks like that wordpress can’t check for updates on the one server but can on the other. WordPress does not output much information if it can’t, it’s just an request which takes it’s time to time-out. Install the Disable WordPress Core Update (WordPress Plugin) and the Disable WordPress Plugin Updates (WordPress Plugin) to disable … Read more
It’s a well-known problem among WordPress specialists that GoDaddy overloads their servers and you get tons of performance problems with it. If you are at GoDaddy because they are inexpensive let me recommend a host I’ve been using for years: A Small Orange. You can get a minimum account there for $US25/year, their Tiny plan. … Read more
Afaik there’s no real performance test available (what exactly do you want to check?), but you can find a plugin that came out of the first Q below, that might help you doing some profilling. An interesting read might be… refactoring WP to improve memory performance generally a lot of Qs inside the performance tag … Read more