Deryck

@deryckoe.com

WordPress Expert, Laravel Enthusiast. After 9 to 5, I dive into side projects. Sharing my dev journey & everyday learnings. https://uptimemonitorpro.com

Security plugins in WordPress won’t save a poorly maintained site. Weak passwords, outdated core/themes/plugins, and bad hosting are bigger risks than missing a firewall. Security starts with smart decisions, not just another plugin.

Slow queries can kill performance in WordPress. Optimize them with these steps: 🔹 Use WP_Query efficiently -no query_posts. 🔹 Add indexes to large db tables. 🔹 Use transients for caching freq queries. 🔹 Limit post revisions to reduce database bloat What’s your approach to optimizing queries?

I need to load a WordPress page of a full website on a subdomain. I’ll try this method to load the specific WordPress page without redirection. Anyone tried this before? Thoughts?

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Working on the status pages for Uptime Monitor Pro. Very soon, our customers' clients will also be able to track the status of their pages. How does it look like so far?

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Developing WordPress plugins isn’t for the faint of heart—especially when migrating or transforming data in the DB. Once you ship, it’s out of your hands, and that’s the nerve-wracking part. You can’t predict every install, and if something breaks, fixing it isn’t always simple.

I spent big part of the day working on new features for Uptime Monitor Pro. So many things I want to add but I'm sticking to the roadmap. It's hard to not ged overwhelmed by the sense of urgency my brain try to add to all features. The productivity hack is to stick to the list, respect the order.

Thinking about how I can add more value to websites made with WordPress in Uptime Monitor Pro. Yes, I love WordPress (in case you did not noticed before 😂) as many of you do and would like to see that reflected in UMP. Open to ideas. 💡🤔

Second issue: Some website were not working with Keyword Detection in the content because the Uptime Monitor were not detected as a Supported Browser. I had to improve the web scrapping procedure. It's working like a charm now. If you want to see the results, take a look at uptimemonitorpro.com

Uptime Monitor Pro

Get instant notifications when your website goes down. Monitor response times, SSL certificates, and domain expiration all in one powerful dashboard.

uptimemonitorpro.com

First issue: CloudFlare blocked requests from the Uptime Monitor. I had to put a Datacenter Proxy in the middle. I was ready to do it anyway because I needed to setup the foundation to have checks from multiple regions. I fixed the issue an now I'm ready for multiple regions.

Today I had the worst challenge since I started working on Uptime Monitor Pro. Cloudflare is blocking the monitor in some cases, for some websites. I already have a solution and I'm testing it thoroughly. I will give more info as soon as I finish the test. It's looking good. uptimemonitorpro.com

Uptime Monitor Pro

Get instant notifications when your website goes down. Monitor response times, SSL certificates, and domain expiration all in one powerful dashboard.

uptimemonitorpro.com

At least the last three blocks I created for WordPress are dynamic blocks using a shortcode to generate the output. That makes it compatible with all page builders automatically. Builder can use the shortcode or I can create a custom component for it. Is there a better approach?

New feature rolled out for Uptime Monitor Pro. Now you can reset your uptime data, including incidents as well as certificates and domain validations.

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This weekend I will have to record some videos as the first version of the SaaS documentation I'm working on. Writing documentation is not so much fun, but it is necessary. However, shooting videos for the documentation is fun.

Does this count as touching some grass? I never get tired of seeing waterfalls. How could I? Ojos del Caburgua, Araucanía, Chile. 🇨🇱

For the past two months I have been working on a SaaS. Slowly, but steadily, in my spare time. Now it's ready to launch and I've never been so scared in my life about something I'm shipping.

Playing with Solo for Laravel from @aaronfrancis.com . No more splitting screens in terminal. When you think all great tools for Laravel were already created, then you get this gem (and for Laravel, not for Ruby 😉)

It's impressive what you can achieve nowadays with jQuery. Plus, it comes by default with WordPress, so there's no problem getting started. Sometimes it's just not worth the hassle of adding a new framework.

I love and owe so much to WordPress, but I also love Laravel. The good thing is that they are so different, even in their possible applications, that there is no conflict at all. And yes, I am aware of Statamic.