Performance/optimization

Blog posts category

Debugging tools built into ProcessWire

1 July 2022 3

ProcessWire's core comes with a lot of helpful debugging tools and capabilities built-in. In this post we'll cover some of these useful tools and how to use them. More

ProcessWire 3.0.200 new master/main version

13 May 2022 2

This new main/master version has more than 220 commits, resolves more than 80 issues, adds numerous new features, performance improvements and optimizations, and consumes HALF the disk space of our previous release. This post covers all the details. More

Field and template performance/scalability improvements

4 February 2022 3

This week we have some great performance and scalability improvements in the core that enable lazy-loading of fields, templates and fieldgroups. More

ProcessWire 3.0.175 adds new database scalability options

2 April 2021 2

This week ProcessWire gained the ability to maintain separate read-only and read-write database connections to optimize scalability, cost and performance. The post covers why this can be so valuable and how to configure it in ProcessWire. More

ProcessWire 3.0.172 – Find faster and more efficiently

5 February 2021 11

This week ProcessWire gained powerful new tools for finding pages and controlling how they are loaded. If you like to maximize performance and efficiency, you’ll like what 3.0.172 brings. More

About the new ProcessWire ProFields Combo Field

4 December 2020 13

This week we'll take a brief look at a powerful new ProFields module for ProcessWire that's just around the corner—the Combo field. More

Powerful new text-searching abilities in 3.0.160

19 June 2020 6

In ProcessWire 3.0.160 we’ve got some major upgrades and additions to our text-search abilities. This brings a whole new level of power to $pages->find() and similar API calls, especially when it comes to search engine type queries. More

ProcessWire 3.0.153 core updates

20 March 2020

This latest version of the core on the dev branch focuses on comments field updates, significant refactoring/improvements to ProcessWire’s core Template class and PagesLoader class (which is used by the $pages API variable), and we introduce a useful new $pages API method. More

ProcessWire 3.0.152 core updates

6 March 2020 6

This week we have some major improvements to our core date/time Inputfield, as well as a new ability to specify your own custom classes for Page objects. Read on for all the details and examples. More

Driving around a DDOS attack

7 February 2020 7

Last Saturday we started getting hit with heavy traffic at the processwire.com support forums, and it soon became a full blown DDOS frenzy. This post describes all the fun, how we got it back under control, and what we learned along the way. More

WebP images on an existing site

16 August 2019 2

In this post we’ll look at a process used for migrating an existing website to use WebP images. We’ll cover everything from preliminary considerations to implementation and testing, with lots of tips and tricks along the way. More

ProcessWire 3.0.135 core updates

3 July 2019

Version 3.0.135 of ProcessWire on the dev branch focuses on .htaccess updates, adds additional layers of security, adds clarity to debug mode, and improves upon the installer. More

ProcessWire 3.0.132 adds WEBP image support

24 May 2019 6

This week I’m happy to report we now have WEBP image support in ProcessWire thanks to a GitHub pull request from Horst Nogajski. This enables you to have highly optimized image output in PW and I think you’ll really like the difference it makes. Read on for all the details. More

ProcessWire 3.0.130 core updates

12 April 2019 1

This week we’ll take a detailed look at a few useful new API additions made in the last few weeks, along with examples of each. More

Building the Canongate website with ProcessWire

2 June 2017 4

Alex recently worked with design agency Human After All to build a website for this leading independent book publisher. This post discusses the highlights, challenges and successes in building this impressive ProcessWire-powered site. More