WP Offload Media 2.5 Released: Improved WooCommerce Integration and New Tool for Already Offloaded Files
It’s been a busy few months since our last release. In that time we’ve been hiring, settling into a regular release cycle format, planning out the future roadmap for the…
WP Offload Media 2.4 Released: Private Media with a Custom Domain and Amazon CloudFront
This is a big release, six months in the making…well, really 5 years in the making! Check out the date on this GitHub issue 😱… We’re so excited to finally…
Grunt vs Gulp: Battle of the Build Tools
In JavaScript land, things move fast and technology advances at a crazy pace. Most modern applications are built using technologies like Vue.js and React, making use of module bundlers like…
Amazon S3 vs CloudFront: Why Delivering WordPress Media Directly From S3 is a Bad Idea
Amazon S3 is a sensible choice for storing your website’s assets in the cloud, but for delivery the benchmarks show that using a CDN is necessary to see any major…
WordPress, JavaScript and PHP Conferences to Add to Your Calendar in 2020
Whether you’re hoping to speak at a conference, looking to network or just there to learn, attending a conference can be beneficial to you and your career in a number…
WP Offload Media 2.3 Released: WordPress 5.3 Support & More
Today we released WP Offload Media 2.3! 🎉 This release has some very important changes in order to support WordPress 5.3, introduces a custom table for the plugin’s data, as…
The End of Jigoshop? What Happened to The Once-Popular Ecommerce WordPress Plugin
I woke up this morning to an email from an old client from my days as a freelancer building WordPress sites, asking about SCA compliance. I built them an ecommerce…
Optimizing Laravel Part 4: Queues, Front-end & Opcache Considerations
This is article 4 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what object caching is and how and when to use it to…
WP Offload Media 2.2 Released: Offload Existing Media Items in the Background & More
It is with immense pleasure that we’d like to announce the release of WP Offload Media 2.2! 🎉 This release brings the much-requested background offloading of existing Media Library items.…
Optimizing Laravel Part 3: Improving Performance with Object Caching
This is article 3 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what a database index is and how we can use database indexing…