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WordPress is a pretty reliable CMS for the most part. After all, it’s been tested and retested on millions of sites all over the world, and most the kinks have been worked out. Despite all that, it sometimes behaves unexpectedly – like when you suddenly see a 404 “Not Found” error where you shouldn’t. Maybe […]
In the past, I’ve written about my issues with the WordPress Gutenberg editor , and with its focus on “blocks” for everything. However, now that it’s here and part of WordPress for good, let’s take a look at a few tips to make it more manageable. The core theme of Gutenberg will always remain the […]
In an earlier article, I’d shown you how to defer Javascript properly so that it does two things: Doesn’t interfere with page rendering Doesn’t break stuff However, that particular configuration doesn’t work for everyone. Despite taking precautions, there are some plugins and themes that won’t work even when the scripts are “deferred” with jQuery excluded. […]
A WordPress blog can consist of a large variety of topics. Some pages are “information only”, yet others play a key role in the decision process. Not all page layouts are appropriate for all situations. For example, you might want to experiment with a new sidebar for certain pages only. In this tutorial, I’m going […]
One of the most basic principles of site speed is to reduce the number of domains that your page requests on each load. To this end, I’ve come to the opinion that a CDN like CloudFlare’s reverse proxy is much more efficient than traditional CDN networks since it doesn’t need to resolve an additional domain. […]
After all your page speed optimizations are done, how do you know if they’re having an actual impact on the loading speed? No matter how many speed tests you conduct with the pagespeed tool by Google or on webpagetest.org, there’s no substitute for real-world monitoring. With testing tools, you at best get a simulacrum of […]
The time has finally arrived! WordPress 5.0 was officially released on December 6th. This is the largest update to the core WordPress files since they started the project and has many new features most notably the Gutenberg editor. You can read more about the changes in WordPress 5.0 here. With this being a major release, […]
Knowing how to inline and defer CSS on your WordPress site is a vital part of improving the viewer experience. While it doesn’t improve your page load time, it makes a huge difference to how the user perceives the page to load. Normally, all externally linked CSS stylesheets are render-blocking. Which means that the browser […]
Continuing on with our series on how to make your site faster, this article will show you how to load all Javascript in WordPress until after the page has finished parsing. In an earlier tutorial, I’d shown you how to correctly load jQuery from a CDN – usually Google. If you’ve read that, then you […]
In October 2016, the guys working at WordPress decided to include a CSS customer in the theme customization options. Previously this functionality was available only to Jetpack users, and it was one of the reasons why I used to recommend Jetpack to everyone. Before this, users needed to find a 3rd party plugin for their […]