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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!
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of cookie consent banners. When I visit a page, I often don’t want to interact with it by clicking. It’s especially annoying if a consent banner gets in the way of consent. I don’t want to click “Yes” OR “No”. Just leave me be! Unfortunately, GDPR rules […]
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) already tracks a bunch of events – scrolls, page views, outbound clicks, and searches. However, I personally need to track specific events like clicks on specific URL patterns, and I need to know on which pages those clicks happened, which URLs were clicked, and how many times they were clicked. To […]
Earlier, I’d written about Google forcing us to upgrade to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) even though it’s nowhere near ready and is inferior to the existing Universal Analytics (UA). Since then, I’ve been trying out various analytics software, one of which was Microsoft’s Clarity. After Google, Microsoft is the biggest consumer-facing name in this department, […]
Unless you’ve lost your Internet connectivity for a while, you’re surely aware of Google Analytics 4. The last time I checked it out, it was a monstrously complex piece of software that requires you to jump through hoops for even the simplest analytics. I’d posted a review of Google Analytics 4 at the time and […]
In an earlier article, I’d talked about some WordPress maintenance tasks that you should do regularly. One of them was limiting the number of post revisions that WordPress saves by default. However, in that article, I’d mentioned a plugin you could use that did several different maintenance tasks at once from the same interface. But […]
A website and its associated backend tend to build up “crud” as time goes by. Especially if you’re running a complicated CMS like WordPress with a lot of moving parts. This dirt accumulates mainly in the database even if you don’t make any active changes to your site. Automatic plugin updates, cron jobs, user interactions, […]
Web hosting is a complicated experience. There are many moving parts, pricing models, and optional value-added services. It’s not easy to determine in advance how much it costs to start a web hosting business. Add in the fact that different hosting providers have varying levels of service and performance, and we can conclude that the […]
Reusable blocks in WordPress Gutenberg are an amazing feature that has greatly improved the maintainability of code on websites. I use them all the time for block scripts, special CSS instructions, and even for some repeatable patterns. The WordPress pattern directory is still a work in progress, and you can’t create your own patterns without […]
When talking about high-performance alternatives to the Apache web server, two names are most often seen as alternatives: NGINX LiteSpeed The former – NGINX – is an open-source alternative to Apache that boasts an event-driven architecture, is used by many web hosts looking to add extra features to their service. LiteSpeed on the other hand […]
A few days back on March 15th, 2022 Cloudflare announced that it will be bringing some Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality to its free tier. Traditionally, free Cloudflare users have only been able to access 5 manual firewall rules that need to be configured individually. Even though you can get creative with OR and AND […]