WordPress

2017 Year in Review: a Look Back And New Year’s Resolutions.

In 2017 FV Player got lots of new features and became the most feature-rich video plugin for WordPress on the market. Here is how it happened.

Why WP Rocket fails on high traffic sites and how to fix it

We are big users of WP Rocket (licensed through 2020). WP Rocket works great on our clients’ normal busy sites (up to 5 million visitors/month). We run one very high traffic network with up to 40 million visitors in one week or even a million visitors/hour. On this site, WP Rocket fails miserably. When new […]

WordPress Plugin Pricing

Is $75 too much money for a video plugin or too low or just right? There's a free FV Player Pro license for the best answer to that question.

6 Great WordPress Newsletters You Should Subscribe to Today

As much as we love to stay updated on what’s hot in the WordPress world, newsletters can be tricky. By signing up for a newsletter, you risk being spammed with commercial content or simply having your inbox cluttered with the information you don’t need. Sometimes, there is a way to check what you sign up for by reading the previous issues online, but in most cases, there is no way to know what you get until you press subscribe.

So how do you know which WordPress newsletters are worth subscribing to? To answer this question, we’ve subscribed to almost all WordPress newsletters that we could find and got our inboxes full of them for a few weeks so that you don’t have to do the same. (Unless you want to!) We’ve carefully reviewed them and put together the ultimate list of top six best WordPress newsletters, all extremely helpful and free of charge.

Case Study: Richard Silver’s Torontoism

When Foliovision first got acquainted with Richard Silver back in 2013, we knew we were at the start of a very fruitful relationship.

Why Desiblitz dumped JW Player 7 for FV Player Pro

When JW Player introduced a much more complicated interface, Desiblitz.com decided to turn to a faster, simpler alternative – FV Player.

Case Study: How FV Player keeps CreativeScreenWriting.com’s videos safe from pirates

How to protect your videos from being downloaded? Here's a quick and efficient solution we prepared for one of our clients.

WordPress 2017 Security Roundup: Shield, Sucuri, iThemes, WordFence

All WordPress security plugins are too complicated. Making certain sensible hosting setup obligatory would make sites more secure.

How to use WordPress with CDN

Don't just blindly remove query strings from JS and CSS files as you will lose control over what JS and CSS files your visitors get.

Foliovision at WCEU Paris 2017

Foliovision attended Wordcamp Europe 2017 in Paris. It was a great adventure, we met a bunch of new people and learned a lot about Wordpress.

How to restore missing WordPress Featured Image Screen Option

The issue is not in any of Settings –> Media, in Appearance, in the Customizer or in wp-config. Here's the code to drop into functions.php.

Yoast SEO vs FV Simpler SEO review or How Joost de Valk undermines WordPress.org

Eventually WordPress will die under the weight of the carpet baggers like Yoast. Watch Joost de Valk beg, steal and sell out his users.

Akismet Alternatives: CleanTalk

Tired of comment spam? Not want to spend a fortune on Akismet for your network. Here comes CleanTalk to the rescue.

LearnDash + FV Player + Vimeo – A Great Video Learning System Combination

LMS are popular these days. Here's how you set up an almost unlimited video learning system with as many courses and videos as you want.

Comment Caching Models to improve WordPress Core Performance

A single file is fast but very fragile for logged in commenters (any change means caching everything all over again). We found another way.

Moderating a busy WordPress Site with Thoughtful Comments

It’s been a commenting kind of last seven days since Disqus started adding ads or charging what are extortionate rates for continued ad-free existence ($99/month for sites with from 50K to 250K visitors!). First some lively conversation over at WP Tavern about Disqus, wpDisquz (also very expensive at $29/extension), Postmatic, Replyable and our own Thoughtful […]