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Redis vs APCu 2018

June 10, 2018 Team Cook 7 Comments Cache, Redis, Objects, APCu

Redis VS APCu Object Cache performance test 2018: is it relevant anyway? Redis is fast, but APCu is faster. Unfortunately, APCu is being pushed on the side of the road as an Object cache, and here is why.

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Redis VS Memcached 2018

May 29, 2018April 3, 2022 Team Cook 3 Comments Cache, Memcached, Redis, gnuplot, Performance

This post is about performance between Redis VS Memcached, which are in-memory, networked object cache software. There are 3 categories of caching systems on the server side: Memory code caching, Memory object caching, and Disk file caching.

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You Cannot Enable WebP in WordPress

March 4, 2018February 26, 2022 Team Cook 3 Comments WordPress, WebP

So you heard about WebP and its incredible compression factor? You want your WordPress blog to benefit of a good Google ranking? Solutions exist to allow WordPress to upload WebP images, unfortunately it’s useless as WordPress won’t be able to resize them to create the thumbnails used everywhere.

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How To Get Rid Of JetPack Once And For All

February 26, 2018February 26, 2022 Team Cook 0 Comments plugin, JetPack

JetPack is one of those jack-of-all-trades plugin most newbies to WordPress install at first. I used it, and I enjoyed it. Until I checked my Yslow score. JetPack services seem appealing at first glance, but over time you will notice its usefulness fades away. This post will help you replace it with alternatives.

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Conditionally Serving WebP Images With Nginx

February 24, 2018April 3, 2022 Team Cook 3 Comments ImageMagick, WebP, JPEG, nginx

Practical solution to serve images conditionally depending on WebP support. This recipe discusses how to do it with nginx. WebP is a next generation image format spearheaded by Google since 2013, which provides so much better compression than legacy formats. Only supported by Chrome, Opera and Android at this time.

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Automatic Header Anchors for WordPress

January 14, 2018February 26, 2022 Team Cook 0 Comments anchors, AnchorJS

Header Anchors with AnchorJS for WordPress is nothing but so easy to set up… No shitty plugin is necessary: just

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Text Fade Out / Read More Link for WordPress

January 10, 2018February 26, 2022 Team Cook 0 Comments CSS

The default “read more…” link in WordPress is quite boring… and often, so-called theme developers just neglect it and leave it as is. Stuck on the left, no margin, no effects, barely noticeable, plain boring.
What about an awesome Fade Out effect instead?