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Earlier, I’d written a tutorial on how to install memcached on a VPS that integrates with PHP. In this tutorial, I’ll write about how to do the same with Redis. Like memcached, Redis is another caching mechanism that can speed up reads and writes by using your (much faster) RAM instead of accessing the database […]
If you’re running WordPress on a VPS – managed or unmanaged – your web hosting provider won’t include memcached as part of the installation. A managed VPS takes care of OS updates, setting up the control panel, e-mail, etc., but only goes so far. Unlike shared hosting, where your web host might have a checkmark […]
One of the downsides of no longer using sidebars is that you lose space to put stuff like “Related Posts”. But I still stick with my decision to do away with sidebars on my site – mostly because when it comes to long-form content, the sidebars vanish quickly anyway. For lasting benefits, you’ll have to […]
Updated: May 1, 2023 The All-in-One WP Migration plugin is hands down the best tool you can use to migrate your WordPress website from one host to another. I used it myself a couple of days ago to transition my website to one of NameHero’s new WordPress Hosting packages, and it really is simple. We […]
Like it or not, Google is the unlikely champion of website speed. By integrating CWV speed and usability metrics as ranking criteria in the SERPs, platform creators are finally starting to take the issue seriously. As a user and fan, WordPress often frustrates me with their lackadaisical approach to speed issues. For the longest time, […]
If you’ve run a website for a while, you know that you can sometimes get emails from hackers trying to use the “password reset” button. While this shouldn’t work because they don’t have access to your email (hopefully!), it can still be annoying to sift through the spam, and in general, it causes additional workload […]
A friend of mine recently reached out to me for SEO advice on a new site he was working on. Taking a quick look, I saw that he hadn’t yet put the main keyword/keyphrase into the title! Naturally, we all know this is the single most important step you take to identify your site as […]
In July 2021, WordPress 5.8 was released with a powerful new feature – the block pattern directory. It’s an addition to WordPress’s existing library of themes and plugins and is sure to be a huge asset for web developers. I must admit, I didn’t see the potential for block patterns until I took a look […]
Debugging in WordPress is annoying. It’s turned off by default, and there’s no GUI for viewing the errors. Turning it on requires you to add lines to the wp-config.php file – something not everyone is comfortable doing, particularly given that it’s so sensitive and can easily destroy your entire site if you’re not careful. As […]
On the 26th of July, 2021, the well-known plugin Autoptimized released a new update that allows for deferring in-line JavaScript. Here’s the new option as seen in the settings screen: This new ability, lets you final defer inline JavaScript so that it doesn’t mess up your page load times. But should you enable it? And […]