Responsible WordPress plugin development – More compatibility, less support tickets

Ernest Marcinko Tutorials, Wordpress 1 Comment

The wordpress plugin database is now filled with thousands of plugins. In my first few months of development I encountered lots of incompatibility issues, I almost recieved a support ticket after each selling. Altough you cannot make a plugin that is 100% compatible with all the other plugins in the repository, but you can and must try to make it …

Media Service Subscription for Ajax Search Pro – Product Information

Main information about the product The Media Service (“product”) offers an advanced way to index the contents of your Media files, when using the index table engine. When activated, Ajax Search Pro sends your files to one of our external servers to index it’s contents – and the servers sends back the parsed content. This product is made as an additional feature subscription …

Related Posts Plugins performace – measured

Ernest Marcinko Blog, Reviews 16 Comments

Last week I found out that many WordPress hosts ban many of the most popular plugins from their users. Most of these plugins are Related Posts plugins. I guess they are afraid of excessive database usage. However I myself was interested in this topic as I already made one related posts plugin myself, called Related Posts Lite. Before you continue, please …

Saving space automatically – Beginners guide to Digital Ocean

Ernest Marcinko Hosting, Tutorials, Wordpress 10 Comments

After a while, you will notice an exponential growth of used space, without even copying anything to it. How so? Your server size grows mostly because: You are adding/updating new packages – cached package data is stored Kernels are updating regularly – old ones are kept Log files are being created and archived for a long long time Keeping the …

From XAMPP to Vagrant WordPress

Ernest Marcinko Blog, Hosting, Testing, Tutorials, Wordpress 3 Comments

I’m sure most if not every developer is using some kind of local server tool for development. The greatest advantage of using local development server is that you don’t depend on a hosting provider, and it works without internet as well (in most cases). I’ve been using XAMPP for a very long time, as it was very comfortable to use, …

Ajax Search Pro 3.x – A live WordPress search on the next level

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A few months ago Ajax Search Pro was refactored again. Right now the plugin is more robust then ever. I’m listening to customer feedback all the time, and I’m regularly taking notes when solving support tickets. Some requests I can fulfill, some I can’t. There are always some key points/features I start with, then I move to less important ones. …

Stay connected box for WordPress without a plugin

Ernest Marcinko Tutorials, Wordpress 1 Comment

I’ve done a lot of research to look for a plugin, that can add a “stay connected with us” box below my posts. Unfortunately there is none. The main reason for this, is because there is no proper hook in wordpress to add a content block after the sinlge post. Fortunately, the workaround isn’t too hard. It’s attractive, visitors will …