Category: WordPress

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 […]

I think a lot about tables in content. Despite being cast away in favor of things like GridLayouts for website design, they’re still invaluable for doing their primary job – displaying data in a structured manner. And because I use a lot of data myself on my site, I’m always looking for ways to make […]

When you have a large site, maintenance can be a hassle. You might have multiple authors and thousands of comments to sift through, on top of all the regular work like updating plugins, etc. One solution that many organizations take, is to outsource the comment moderation. Of all the possibly risky areas of a site, […]

WordPress Gutenberg changed the focus of the editor from writing, to “page building”. While a lot of people including myself hated it at first, its benefits have begun to grow on me. And with the bugs ironed out, I can unequivocally say that it’s far better than the original editor. Now I use blocks myself […]