John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7…

ByDan Knauss Posted onJune 8, 2021

John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7 which includes features related to viewing information about debugging and the performance of REST API requests. ✨

Post Status Comments (No. 4) — State of the Word 2021 Analysis

ByDavid Bisset December 16, 2021February 17, 2022

Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.

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WordPress Performance Optimzation

ByBrian Krogsgard February 8, 2013January 31, 2015

Performance matters because a positive (fast) user experience facilitates all goals a publisher or application developer might have. WordPress, like most applications, has numerous moving parts that must be considered when trying to scale.

Andrey Savchenko released a new version…

ByBrian Krogsgard March 29, 2019

Andrey Savchenko released a new version of Laps, which is a plugin that shows performance information about WordPress page loads. Laps 3.3 adds plotting for early SQL queries and individual plugin load tracking on WordPress 5.1.

Executive Code When President Joe Biden…

ByDan Knauss January 22, 2021

Executive Code When President Joe Biden took office this week, the official White House website was completely replaced — and it’s still using WordPress. Of course, this sparked a public conversation (and also some private ones) about the theme and plugins the revamped whitehouse.gov site is running, among other technical details. One of the first…

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Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

ByBrian Krogsgard September 7, 2016

There’s a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed “content endpoints” into WordPress core with the 4.7 release — which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development meeting of the 4.7 cycle, Helen proposed a series of things that would need to…