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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!
The past year has seen a new trend in web hosting – pushing more and more computing to edge nodes away from the origin web server. It’s still in its infancy, but as it takes hold, it’ll change traditional web hosting forever. EDGE Hosting – One Step Beyond CDNs A traditional CDN just hosts dynamic […]
On the 2nd of June 2021, QUIC.cloud finally exited beta and entered production status. With this, they’ve finalized their pricing, introduced new regional pricing, and are having a 50% discount on data transfer till the end of the year. Also, it becomes the first CDN to support HTTP/3 both for connections to the origin server, […]
Every business needs an online presence. These days, I’ve seen more and more small business owners outsource their online presence to 3rd party social media companies like Facebook and Instagram. Sometimes when meeting a proprietor in person, I ask them for their website – and they tell me to find them on Facebook! Such organizations […]
In mid-2019, I had written a post about Google’s decision to stop supporting “noindex” directives in robots.txt. My feelings on the subject haven’t changed since then – the robots.txt should be the right place for this tag, as this directive is exclusive to robots. But Google powered ahead anyway, so I have no choice but […]
We tend to think of our sites as constantly growing. More pages. More content. And that is indeed true for certain types of domains. For example, news sites will always be generating more stuff. The same is true for social media or opinion bloggers. But not all sites need to be constantly growing. Some can […]
When it comes to storage, most people only think about SSD vs HDD. SSDs are fast, HDDs are slow. And web hosting that promises the former over the latter is better. And that’s it. However, more recent technology updates have improved the performance of SSDs – and the technology to watch is NVMe drives. It […]
Last week, I’d written about Full Site Editing (FSE) in WordPress, and how it was going to put theme design in the hands of ordinary users. Previously, you had to know not just PHP and HTML code, you also had to know where the different parts of your theme design were stored. It was complicated, […]
In one of my earlier articles on how to load Google fonts without a plugin, I received a request in the comments section, asking about the best way to have different fonts in the same WordPress post. Perhaps even just one sentence or one paragraph should be in a different font! The writer opined that […]
Last week, the WordPress team decided the Full Site Editing (FSE) won’t ship with v 5.8. But it’s getting there! When Gutenberg first rolled out in 2018, I didn’t fully appreciate the level of changes it would bring. In fact, I found it rather annoying and was against the concept of “blocks” as a whole, […]
Last week, I raised concerns about Google’s FLoC, and how it harms website owners (and users) by opting them into a tracking program without their explicit consent. It appears that others in the WordPress community share my views, as evidenced by the lively community discussion on whether or not WordPress should block FLoC by default. […]