Performance – Page 2

I’ve been working with WooCommerce REST API for quite a while now, well, I developed a couple of plugins – Simple WordPress Crossposting and Simple Inventory Sync and both of them are relying on WooCommerce REST API.

And when you develop something that is intended to be used not only on your test website with 5 products total but also on high load websites, when orders can contain more than 100 products and variations, of course you should always keep performance in mind.

In this tutorial I will share with you some simple simple yet effective tips and tricks.

Even though Gutenberg (WordPress Block Editor) has become our new reality and FSE themes are also on their way, we still need meta boxes on our projects. The meta boxes aren’t necessarily classic meta boxes for posts, it could be additional settings fields for taxonomies, users, comments and even options pages. It means that we are going to need them for a very long time. Maybe even forever.

Of course the best way to create any of the mentioned above is to code by yourself. But it could be really time consuming especially if you have a lot of fields (and working on lots of projects).

That’s when metabox plugins come into play. The most popular ones are Advanced Custom Fields and Carbon Fields. Also in this article I am going to mention my own metabox plugin I developed for my needs which is Simple Fields.

The idea of this tutorial is to become more conscious to what plugins we are using to achieve our goals, because there are lots of slow WordPress websites out there, not because WordPress is slow but because sites are overloaded with tens and even hundreds heavy plugins.

Let’s look the truth in the face – of course I am going to tell you how cool my Simple Fields plugin is. But I am not going to say “use it”, because I understand clearly that sometimes its functionality is not enough, then you can probably look at Carbon Fields plugin. And even Advanced Custom Fields PRO has its own advantages though I am not a big fan of it.