Getting started with ShopTune
Up and running in under five minutes. ShopTune is HPOS-compatible and works alongside any caching plugin.
1. Install ShopTune
Install the free version from WordPress.org (Plugins → Add New → search “ShopTune”), or upload the zip via Plugins → Add New → Upload. Activate it. Requires WordPress 6.0+, WooCommerce 7.0+, PHP 7.4+.
Open ShopTune in your admin sidebar. The Dashboard shows your backend performance score and key metrics.
2. Turn on the free wins
- Cart Fragments Cache — stops WooCommerce rebuilding the mini-cart on every page load.
- Database Cleanup — clear revisions, expired transients and orphaned data.
- Tweaks — toggle the 15 safe WordPress optimizations one at a time.
- Autoload Analyzer & Server audit — see what's weighing down every request.
Enable features one at a time and check your front-end after each — every optimization fails open, so a misconfiguration never takes the site down.
3. Upgrade to Pro for the heavy machinery
Pro unlocks the features that matter most at scale:
- Order Archiving — preview the eligible count, then archive old orders in the background. Every order is snapshotted first and is fully restorable.
- AJAX Bootstrap Optimizer — detect active plugins, choose which load on cart AJAX, and enable it with a one-click kill switch.
- Before/After Benchmarks — snapshot before tuning and after to see the exact deltas.
After purchase you'll receive a license key — enter it under ShopTune → Go Pro to unlock the Pro tabs.
Safety & the kill switch
If you ever need to disable every runtime optimization instantly, add
define('SHOPTUNE_SAFE_MODE', true);
to wp-config.php. The AJAX optimizer also disables itself automatically after a fatal error.