ehoanshelt

We had a version of the plugin that had that maintenance notice placed there. Looks like you had a vintage one! Glad it’s all resolved now. Let us know if you run into any other issues!

Hey Patrick,

Can you let me know what version of the plugin you are using?

Thanks!
Eric

Hey tammy1999,

Ask WP Engine support about LargeFS. It’s basically a way to setup integration between your WP Engine install and an Amazon S3 bucket. This overall will be better for performance and give you unlimited storage. Amazon S3 comes with a small cost based on bandwidth.

Here is a support article on the topic:
https://wpengine.com/support/configuring-largefs-store-transfer-unlimited-data/

Hope that helps!

Hey CeeInTx!

You can use CSS to accomplish this:

.hib-text-table-cell .title {
    display: none;
}

.hib-text-table-cell:hover .title {
    display:block;
}

Hope this helps!

Hey!

I just wanted to clarify that this plugin only works for sites moving to the WP Engine Platform. If the 5 year old site is hosted on a different provider other than WP Engine, the plugin will be of no use.

This depends highly on what information you want to bring over from the newly developed site to the older site. The plugin is designed to bring over everything and change the domain name. If that is exactly what you intend to do, the plugin will work perfectly. You will just need to add the old domain name as the destination URL.

If you need to merge data, for example, keep some information that exist on the newly developed site and merge old content into the new site, the plugin will not be of good use and I would highly recommend hiring a developer.

Slightly better option would be if you want the site as xyz.ca to be the new xyz.com, just change your newly developed sites to the old domain name and point the old domain’s DNS to the new site.

Hope this helps!

Hey MCX,

It looks like you are using WP Engine’s CDN service. Log into your WP Engine User Portal and disable the CDN on the install. That will start pulling images from your local server or if you choose, to start pulling from EWWW cloud service.

Thanks!
Eric

Hey Ajay and meem,

Me again! WP Engine has MySQL 5.6 servers. You may need to request to be put on a PHP 5.5 server.

Good news is that WP Engine is actively updating their farm to PHP 5.5/MySQL 5.6. This means that the request might not be needed in due time.

Thanks!
Eric

Hey!

That is correct. This plugin relies on functionality only available on the WP Engine environment.

Thanks!
Eric

Hey everyone!

Eric from WP Engine here. Just wanted to confirm Niall statement that this looks like a PHP 5.3.2 incompatibility. If you would like to be moved to a PHP 5.5 server, just put in a request to support and we’ll move you over. ??

Thanks!
Eric

Hey!

I’m Eric from WP Engine. ?? If you want to use the ewww-image-optimizer plugin, I would recommend using https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer-cloud/. It’s the same process but this off load the compression process onto their cloud service.

Thanks!
Eric

Without getting to much into numbers because a lot of factors are in play when it comes to scalability of the site. If it is a couple hundred a month, I feel comfortable saying your site should be fine.

I would take a webpagetest.org snapshot of the site performance now before turning on Rand() and then again in a few days to see if you see a huge spike in performance.

Is there any solution to allow random testimonials with this plugin to work without having it affect the performance of my site.

NERD TALK AHEAD:
I’ll let the developer answer that question but to offer a suggestion to him/her/team, if the order by rand() is an essential feature of the plugin, remove any use of the rand() function in MySQL and let PHP handle it. Pull all the testimonials from the database and output random one via PHP from the MySQL response. MySQL Indexes that are installed by default In WordPress should make sure that MySQL outputs the information quickly while PHP can randomize the testimonials in a more productive way.

Now, the plugin developer may not have intentionally used the RAND() function, rather the orderby => ‘rand’ argument in WP_QUERY. This will cause the function to be used in MySQL.
END NERD TALK

I hope this helps!

Hey!

Small sites should be fine. ??

As you post table grows (Testimonials het stored in the same table as posts, pages, etc) you may start seeing a performance hit. But as long as your site is small with a low amount of traffic, RAND() should be fine.

Thanks!
Eric

Hey!

I’m with WP Engine and wanted to see if I could chime in and help here.

In wp-admin, go to the WP Engine section of your dashboard and scroll all the way to the bottom. (This will be the page where you can purge cache)

You will see a toggle for allowing the RAND() function in MySQL to properly execute. Here is a screenshot:

https://take.ms/UeaGt

That should allow your random ordering to work properly. ??

Thanks!
Eric

Hey cbizzle!

I’m with the WP Engine team. I just wanted to let you know that if there’s anything we can do to help you with your troubleshooting efforts, we’re also here to help!

In the meantime, I’m looking at the page and trying to find the widget that is missing. Is the widget affected the one with the title “Drive Home Radio Show”?

Thanks!
Eric

I’m nor sure how this could have happened. Deleting a table can happen accidentally sometimes. I would check if anyone else that has access to your hosting didn’t accidentally delete anything.

Rebuilding your site may take some time, the backup would be the quickest route. I hope you get this solved quickly, I know how stressful this can be!