How to Force Return a 404 Error Page in WordPress
In my last tutorial I showed you how to remove paginated page URLs in WordPress. In that guide I shared code to 301 redirect paginated URLs that aren’t needed. However, in some cases…
PHP Performance: Additional CPU cores vs Faster CPU cores
Some time ago, I received an email from a client experiencing slow performance issues with a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP web server). During a full audit, I found that the server’s…
PHP 8: After 4 years, only 30% of PHP websites use it. But why?
Two years ago, one of our online community members discussed some of the reasons behind the slow adoption of PHP 8. One member stated that it’s due to PHP compatibility issues across new…
Set PHP realpath_cache_size ‘correctly’
<?php var_dump(realpath_cache_size()); ?> Enjoy! realpath_cache_size = 4M realpath_cache_ttl = 120 Note that if your using Apache Prefork-mpm mod_php to run PHP (the fastest when loading only PHP and not with static content) then…
PHP performance: oPcache Control Panels
OPcache is a PHP extension that improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory, thereby removing the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on each request. The extension…
PHP Benchmarks: OPcache vs OPcache w/ Performance Tweaks
These are not mind-blowing results. However, depending on your current throughput of PHP requests, you may be happy to take whatever improvements you can find. Also, this test was with WordPress only; with…