When we are contacted for to help build a new WP-eCommerce site, upgrade an older WP-eCommerce installation, or fix an issue in a WP-eCommerce store there we try to gather a little technical information to understand what we are working with.
The questions we ask, and the things that we look at have been moved into a FREE, easy to use plugin that you can install to check your WP-eCommerce / WordPress configuration health.
Download the Site Check-up Plugin for WP-eCommerce here!
Checks for the following unfortunate conditions existing on your site:
- Unreachable links to products, checkout, results and user profile pages. Checks HTTP and HTTPS.
- Too many options in the WordPress options table
- Too many autoload options in the WordPress options table
- Too much autoload data in the WordPress options table
- Too many transients in the WordPress database
- Expired transients in the WordPress database
- Orphaned WordPress post meta
- Orphaned WordPress taxonomy terms
- Memcache not present
- APC not present
- Object cache not functioning
- Slow un-cached query performance
- Slow cached query performance
Makes available to the store administrator individual actions that will:
- Delete all WordPress Transients from the WordPress database
- Delete expired WordPress transients from the WordPress database
- Delete orphaned WordPress post meta
- Delete orphaned WordPress taxonomy meta
- Delete all files that are part of the WordPress cache
- Flush the WordPress cache
- Test the configuration of memcache object cache
- Initiate a memcache (object cache) flush
