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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!
It’s been a cat and mouse game for me over the past few months, dealing with the REST API requests made to my WordPress site. The overwhelmingly large majority of these requests are not benign. They’re hackers scanning for weaknesses. I’d written an article earlier on how I disabled JSON username enumeration based on the […]
Last week, Cloudflare announced in a blog post that it was implementing a new feature – allowing URL rewrites on the EDGE. This is pretty cool. But the post hid another change that I feel is more directly relevant to website owners, and those concerned about website security. Namely URL Normalization. Here’s why that’s important. […]
The tech and browser world has been abuzz with Google’s “FLOC” technology that promises to do away with cookies entirely in favor of federated learning. But will any of this have an impact on website owners? And is it a good thing for us? What is FLOC? Simply put, FLOC means that Google will show […]
I’ve had it with plugin-based contact forms! I’ve shifted to Google Forms, and so far, it’s going great. No plugins! A while back, I began my journey to decouple my website from Jetpack. By far the most difficult part of the transition, was finding a replacement for the contact form. I want nothing fancy. Just […]
I still get a lot of requests from my previous post on the NameHero blog on how I dropped my CLS to zero. But since that time, Google’s Chrome has come out with new debugging tools that allow you to more accurately pinpoint exactly which elements are causing layout shifts. Here’s how to use it. […]
Let me start this with a screenshot of my Cloudflare dashboard showing the cache hit ratio: I’m caching 85% of all the requests to my site WP-Tweaks. Keep in mind this includes not just legitimate traffic, but also bot traffic, spam, and even hacking attempts. The good news is that you can achieve this too. […]
Google loves to de-emphasize links. A quick rundown of John Mueller’s Twitter feed routinely reveals “advice” like this: Google doesn’t care about links Don’t try and create links Link building is a waste of time Content is the only thing that matters etc… Methinks Google doth protest too much. On the one hand, if Google […]
With WordPress taking the high road and deciding to favor inlined CSS vs large stylesheets to only load CSS that’s on the page, I feel it’s time to examine our own bloated stylesheets and do what we can to reduce the number of unused CSS rules on our page. While WordPress’s latest changes will take […]
Just last month I was complaining about how WordPress needs to do more on Core Web Vitals. While the Automattic team has included several changes to speed up WordPress over the years, it’s obvious that it was never an overriding concern. Otherwise, they would never have decided to include a huge CSS styles file for […]
Google keeps changing its recommendations for the right way to incorporate product reviews in your structured data. For example a couple of years back, I’d written about some changes in Google’s specifications and how to deal with them. But since then, standards have changed again, and it’s time to provide a new JSON template for […]