We’re thrilled to unveil a powerful new feature in WP Adminify: Control Heartbeat API. This enhancement gives you unprecedented control over one of WordPress's essential background functions, allowing you to optimize your site's performance and reduce unnecessary server strain.
For those unfamiliar, the Heartbeat API is the engine behind real-time interactions on your WordPress site. It powers features like autosaving, session management, and user notifications.
While essential, the Heartbeat API can also consume a significant amount of server resources, especially on high-traffic sites or shared hosting environments.
That’s where WP Adminify steps in, giving you the tools to customize, optimize, or completely disable the Heartbeat API where it isn’t needed.
What is the WordPress Heartbeat API?
The Heartbeat API is like the pulse of your WordPress site. It enables real-time communication between your browser and the server, powering autosaves, session management, and more. However, it can also lead to unnecessary CPU usage, especially on resource-heavy sites or shared hosting plans.
That’s where WP Adminify’s Control Heartbeat API steps in.
What Does the WP Adminify’s Control Heartbeat API Offer?
This feature gives you the ability to fine-tune the Heartbeat API across three key areas of your WordPress site:
WordPress Dashboard:The Heartbeat API here manages notifications, session data, and other background tasks. With WP Adminify, you can keep it at the default interval, modify it to reduce its frequency, or disable it entirely if the dashboard doesn’t require these constant updates.
Post Editor: Autosave and real-time collaboration are valuable for content creation, but not every site needs them operating at full tilt. This feature lets you adjust the interval or turn the Heartbeat API off for the post editor, ideal for sites where posts are infrequently updated.
Frontend: The Heartbeat API typically handles features like live updates for public-facing pages. WP Adminify allows you to either tweak the API’s frequency or disable it outright, which is especially beneficial for static sites or pages with low interactivity.
By managing the Heartbeat API’s behavior to each of these areas, you can significantly reduce CPU usage and improve overall site performance—all without compromising critical functionality.
Why This Matters for WP Adminify Users
- Improved Site Performance: Reducing or disabling Heartbeat API in less critical areas helps lighten server loads, ensuring faster performance, especially on shared hosting.
- More Control: You decide where and how the API operates, tailoring its functionality to your specific use case.
- Optimized Workflows: By limiting the API in the post editor or frontend, you can minimize distractions and focus on key tasks.
How to Use This Feature
Getting started is simple. Also, you can check our video announcement on Facebook about the Heartbeat control feature.
- Navigate to the Performance section in WP Adminify’s settings.
- Select the "Control Heartbeat API" option.
- Customize the settings for the Dashboard, Post Editor, and Frontend as per your needs.
No coding required, no complicated configurations—just straightforward control at your fingertips.
A Bonus: Control Revisions
In addition to the Heartbeat API controls, we’re looking to release another essential feature next week: Control Revisions, designed to tackle an often-overlooked culprit of database bloat.
Every time you update a post or page, WordPress saves a revision. While these revisions are useful for undoing changes, they can quickly pile up, consuming database space and slowing down your site, especially for larger or content-heavy websites.
With WP Adminify’s Control Revisions feature, you can:
- Set a Maximum Number of Revisions: Decide how many past versions of a post or page to keep. You can increase or reduce this based on your needs.
- Apply Limits Selectively: Choose whether to enforce these limits on posts, pages, or both, giving you the flexibility to optimize storage without sacrificing essential revision history.
By trimming unnecessary revisions, you’re ensuring a leaner database, faster queries, and a more responsive website.
This is particularly valuable for sites with frequent updates, like blogs, news platforms, and e-commerce stores, where revisions can accumulate quickly.
Whether you’re managing a single site or multiple client projects, Control Revisions offers another way to keep WordPress running efficiently without the hassle of manual database cleanup.
Unlock WP Adminify Pro – Heartbeat Control!
Upgrade to WP Adminify Pro and master your WordPress Heartbeat settings. Boost performance and optimize your site with our powerful Heartbeat Control API!
Why Potential Users Should Care
The Control Heartbeat API and Revisions Limit features are just another example of how WP Adminify empowers users to take control of their WordPress sites. These tools are perfect for:
- Site admins who want optimized server performance.
- Agencies managing multiple WordPress installations.
- Bloggers or small businesses aiming to keep their sites fast and efficient.
We must mention that these features came directly from your feedback. We made WP Adminify for you guys and you’re are an active part of the development journey of WP Adminify.
Keep submitting your requests so that we can keep improving WP Adminify into something that not just us but you guys, our customers can be proud of!
