Make
WooCommerce itself
fast
Caching plugins make your front-end fast. ShopTune makes WooCommerce itself fast — the admin, orders, cart and database that caches can't reach.
Built and battle-tested on a real store doing 150,000+ visits a month, then generalized to work on any store, on any host.
Works alongside WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, FlyingPress — it doesn't replace them. HPOS-compatible.
Your cache plugin can't touch the part that actually slows down
WP Rocket, LiteSpeed and FlyingPress do a great job on the front-end — HTML, CSS, JS, images. But the orders admin, cart AJAX, the database and PHP execution run at raw server speed on every request, and they get slower as your store grows. ShopTune optimizes that layer.
What caching leaves behind
- ✕ Orders admin that takes seconds to load at scale
- ✕ Cart fragments rebuilt on every single page view
- ✕ Every plugin booting on every add-to-cart request
- ✕ Bloated autoload and a database nobody cleans up
What ShopTune does about it
- → Archives old orders so WooCommerce only scans recent ones
- → Caches the mini-cart AJAX response by session + cart hash
- → Loads only the plugins the cart actually needs
- → Cleans the database and trims autoload, with a safety net
Measured deltas, not vibes
ShopTune Pro benchmarks orders-query time, query count, database size and autoload size, then shows you the exact difference after you tune. Representative numbers from a busy store — your results depend on your data and host.
Illustrative figures. ShopTune's job is to measure your store and show you your own before/after.
Free to start, Pro when you scale
Install the free Lite version from WordPress.org and get a real backend performance score. Upgrade to Pro for the heavy lifting: order archiving, the AJAX optimizer and benchmarks.
ShopTune Lite
Free- ✓Cart Fragments Cache
Caches WooCommerce's mini-cart AJAX response (keyed by session + cart hash) so it isn't rebuilt on every page load. Uses Redis/Memcached when available, transients otherwise.
- ✓Database Cleanup
Purge post revisions, expired transients, orphaned metadata, spam and trashed content, then optimize your tables.
- ✓Autoload Analyzer
See exactly which wp_options entries are autoloaded on every request and how much they weigh.
- ✓15 WordPress Tweaks
Emojis, embeds, XML-RPC, heartbeat control, query strings, jQuery Migrate, dashicons and more — each a one-click toggle.
- ✓OPcache & Server Insights
Real-time OPcache stats plus a full server / PHP / MySQL audit with concrete recommendations.
- ✓Performance Score
A single 0–100 health number for your backend, so you know exactly where you stand.
ShopTune Pro
From $59/yr- ★Order Archiving Engine
Auto-archive old completed/cancelled/refunded orders into separate storage so WooCommerce only scans recent ones. Keeps the orders admin fast at 100k+ orders. Every order is snapshotted first and fully restorable; preview the exact count before anything happens.
- ★AJAX Bootstrap Optimizer
Load only the plugins the cart actually needs on add-to-cart and fragment requests, cutting bootstrap from seconds to milliseconds. Auto-detected, confirmed by you, with a one-click kill switch and automatic self-disable on error.
- ★Before / After Benchmarks
Measure orders-query time, query count, database size and autoload size, then see the exact deltas after you tune.
- ★Autoload Surgery
Flip the autoload flag on individual options, with a protected-options safety net so you never break core WordPress.
- ★OPcache Reset & Scheduled Cleanup
Reset OPcache on demand and run database cleanup automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule.
- ★Server Config Generator & Priority Support
Generate tuned Apache / Nginx / php.ini configs for your server profile, with direct priority support.
Who it's for
Stores with 50k+ orders
The orders admin crawls and bulk actions time out. Order archiving keeps WooCommerce scanning only recent orders.
High-traffic shops
Cart AJAX and add-to-cart bootstrap whole plugin stacks on every request. The AJAX optimizer cuts that to milliseconds.
Agencies & freelancers
Diagnose a slow client store in minutes with the server audit, autoload analyzer and before/after benchmarks.
Honest answers
No marketing fog — what ShopTune does, and what it deliberately doesn't.
Does this replace my caching plugin? +
No — keep it. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, FlyingPress and friends do a great job on the front-end. ShopTune optimizes the dynamic, uncacheable layer they leave behind: the orders admin, cart AJAX, database and PHP execution. They work together.
Is order archiving safe? Can I get archived orders back? +
Yes. Before any order leaves the active store, ShopTune saves a complete snapshot (data, meta, line items, notes). You can restore any archived order with one click. By default archived orders are moved to Trash (still recoverable in WooCommerce); permanent deletion is an explicit opt-in, and even then the snapshot is preserved so a restore recreates the order.
Will it slow down or break my site if something goes wrong? +
Every runtime optimization fails open — if anything errors, WordPress loads normally. The AJAX optimizer has a kill switch (define('SHOPTUNE_SAFE_MODE', true) in wp-config.php) and disables itself automatically after a fatal error.
Does it work without Redis? +
Yes. The fragments cache uses your persistent object cache if you have one, and falls back to transients if you don't. It works on any host.
Is it compatible with HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage)? +
Yes. ShopTune uses the WooCommerce order CRUD API throughout and declares HPOS compatibility, so it works with both legacy and High-Performance Order Storage.
Want the free version first? Download ShopTune Lite on WordPress.org →
Simple, annual pricing
Free Lite on WordPress.org. Upgrade to Pro for order archiving, the AJAX bootstrap optimizer, before/after benchmarks and more. One price per year — no per-seat games.
Just want the free version? Download ShopTune Lite on WordPress.org →
Pro is licensed per the number of sites you activate it on. Renews annually; cancel anytime.
Stop fighting a slow WooCommerce backend
Install the free Lite version in two minutes, see your performance score, then upgrade to Pro when you're ready for order archiving and the AJAX optimizer.
Requires WordPress 6.0+ · WooCommerce 7.0+ · PHP 7.4+