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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
Despite the tremendous success of the Gutenberg editor, it hasn’t been extended to the category and tag pages. As a result, the category pages are boring, anemic, and are little more than a glorified list. I tried for a long while to see if I could force WordPress to load a new page instead of […]
One of the problems with long articles is that it can be hard to persuade a user to take some action. Sometimes the user gets “scroll fatigue”, where they whizz past your content, no matter how much you try and get them to engage. I’ve written before about how to break up content, but often […]
I’d written earlier about how to create internal anchor links in WordPress to skip from one section of the page to another. From here, it’s just a couple more steps to creating footnotes, with a small change. Here’s how you do it. 1. Create the Footnote First with an HTML Anchor Link Since we don’t […]
At this point, the Gutenberg WordPress editor is WordPress. The debate about whether or not it’s a good thing is long over, and I myself have come around to the view that Gutenberg is far better than what we had before. One of the features I find myself using constantly is the ability to create […]
With NameHero, you get access to the LiteSpeed web server, which allows you to use powerful caching features. Other web hosts might have server-side caching too, but LiteSpeed is easily the most powerful. One of the reasons is what is called “Edge Side Includes” (ESI). Here’s what ESI is, why it’s so powerful, and how […]
If you run a WordPress site, you’ve already come across articles and tutorials telling you to make changes to either a theme or a plugin file. Apart from that, you might need to make changes to your own CSS without relying upon the inbuilt methods of your theme via the customizer. WordPress has allowed us […]
I’m sure many premium WordPress plugins have caught your eye if you’re like me. Often the free version is good enough for your needs, but sometimes you just need those extra features. So you go to their website and see that the plugin requires a subscription. Usually a yearly fee. Should you go ahead and […]
I find it astonishing that so few web hosts get backups right. In my opinion, the following backup features are absolutely essential for hosting, regardless of what kind of plan you have: Backups available on ALL plans Automatic daily and weekly or monthly backups INSTANT restoration with no need to open a ticket On-demand backups […]
You can configure both LiteSpeed and NGINX for server-side caching. Apache doesn’t allow caching stored HTML files, so if you want to enable this feature without resorting to application-level plugins, you need a different server. LiteSpeed and NGINX are the leading candidates. But which one is better? The answer is LiteSpeed for the reasons listed […]
I’ve written about how to add custom CSS to WordPress. Instead of modifying your theme’s style.css file, creating a child theme, or using a plugin, I suggest you simply create a new stylesheet with the additional CSS rules and include them in WordPress using the wp_enqueue_style function. This way, your custom CSS rules are independent […]