Category: WordPress

WordPress 5.5 is scheduled for release on the 11th of August 2020. While it’s still almost a couple of weeks away, here’s a quick rundown of the major changes to expect. There’s no doubt about it – this is a major release, and it’s only the second one in 2020. As always, the changes fall […]

A while back I’d written about how to reduce your Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) to zero by loading your site on an ultra-low connection and see what moves around. However, even after getting a CLS of 0 seconds on the Google testing tools, I was still getting a high value in the search console that […]

When you start delving a little more deeply into WordPress and want to customize things beyond what is offered by default via the GUI customization options, you enter the world of modifying code to suit your needs. At this point, it’s important to do things correctly. Every WordPress site tells you to be careful and […]

Web hosting providers like to call their packages by many different names. “WordPress Hosting”, “Magenta Hosting”, “Odoo Hosting”, and more. Basically, whatever software or architecture is “hot” on the market, gets its own branded landing page. This gives the illusion that these packages are somehow different from ordinary web hosting in a meaningful way. But […]

NameHero has a partnership with DropMySite to backup your website on a daily basis. One of the advantages of this, is that it allows you to see which files are modified – particularly, the error logs can be quite useful. Recently, this allowed me to isolate a recurring error logged in a “php_errorlog” file that […]

This morning when I went to my site’s dashboard, I saw that the Automattic team had released the latest version of the Jetpack plugin – 8.4. As per my usual habit of never updating a plugin until at least 4 days had passed, I first went through the update notes to see if there were […]

Just because we have a new technology, doesn’t mean we all need to scramble on to it. Or more precisely, we should try out everything, and choose to keep what works. Discard the rest. For years now, Google has been pushing AMP for websites to display on mobile phones. And for years, I signed up […]

Because of how widespread WordPress is, most web hosts offer “WordPress Hosting” in addition to their normal web hosting packages. This trend seems to have really taken off in the past few years and has forced many hosting providers to also display “WordPress Hosting” on their website. But what does this mean? Is WordPress hosting […]

I’d written earlier about how to load the Google Tag Manager only on specific pages, and I’d mentioned there that we could ensure that certain tags would only fire when the user was or wasn’t logged into the CMS. A great use-case scenario for this is when we don’t want our Google Analytics code to […]

When WordPress 5.2 released on 7th May 2019, it included the new “wp_body_open” action, which allowed to insert arbitrary code into the body section of WordPress. One of the best uses of this new functionality was inserting Google Tag Manager (GTM) code, because Google recommends placing it in the body and not the header or […]