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Managing a site requires you to keep constant track of stuff. How many page visits are you getting on your landing pages? What’s the bounce rate? Is your site down? And many, many more parameters. These are relatively simple to track via analytics software, because they occur on your site. You can set up notifications […]
I love Jetpack. It’s a plugin with a ton of functionality. Recently Automattic – the company behind Jetpack – has been improving its utility, allowing users to access features that previously required purchasing separate plans. Such as CDNs for WordPress related JS and CSS, and fast image hosting from EDGE servers across the globe. They […]
Article freshness is an important aspect of maintaining a site. Too many of them focus on churning out new content, without a care for updating old posts and pages. Some content of course, is evergreen. “How to” articles are a great example. You’ll find a whole bunch of them here on the NameHero blog! But […]
A few days ago, I had to solve a weird problem with formatting in WordPress. I use a table plugin that automatically expands the table columns to fit the widest content. However, I wasn’t happy with where it was breaking a sentence and wanted to increase the table column. So I decided to put some […]
The default way in WordPress to include custom CSS is to use the “Additional CSS” feature in the theme customizer under “Appearance” in the dashboard like this: While this is an easy and convenient way to insert additional CSS for your theme, it’s fatally flawed because the system uses a GET request for the CSS, […]
For one of the most popular web page building platforms in existence, WordPress can get pretty frustrating with basic stuff. I guess most of that is due to its organic growth from a blogging platform, to a full-fledged design tool. Sometimes we need to fix basic stuff that you’d imagine would be its bread and […]
For some of us who write a lot on WordPress, a few extra seconds shaved off a routine task can be huge, especially when we have to repeat those things multiple times in a single post. For example, sizing images is a big one. Using Custom Image Dimensions in WordPress Every website’s layout is different, […]
One day I got a bunch of notifications from my WordPress security plugin that some IP addresses were blocked because of multiple incorrect login attempts. By itself, this is nothing to wonder at – after all, WordPress is the platform most targeted by hackers simply because it’s so popular. What was surprising, was that it […]
There’s a lot of “wisdom” floating around on the Internet about what kind of image formats to use on your website. PNG or JPG? What size, and resolution? Which compression algorithm? Despite what a lot of articles tell you, there’s no one solution and you need to constantly test to separate myth from fact. Vector […]
One of the strengths of WordPress is its incredible flexibility. It’s always been so much more than just a “Content Management System”. WordPress is the perfect CMS for programmers and those who like to customize their website just right. Custom fields are a great example of this. At first blush, it’s hard to see their […]