Category: WordPress

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 […]

As a website owner, you want your visitors to realize that your site contains the most up-to-date information. This means that you frequently have to include dates in your titles and content. But let’s be honest it’s not just for visitors, but also search engines. Some of us might wrinkle our nose in distaste at […]

Last week, I’d written about Full Site Editing (FSE) in WordPress, and how it was going to put theme design in the hands of ordinary users. Previously, you had to know not just PHP and HTML code, you also had to know where the different parts of your theme design were stored. It was complicated, […]

In one of my earlier articles on how to load Google fonts without a plugin, I received a request in the comments section, asking about the best way to have different fonts in the same WordPress post. Perhaps even just one sentence or one paragraph should be in a different font! The writer opined that […]

Last week, the WordPress team decided the Full Site Editing (FSE) won’t ship with v 5.8. But it’s getting there! When Gutenberg first rolled out in 2018, I didn’t fully appreciate the level of changes it would bring. In fact, I found it rather annoying and was against the concept of “blocks” as a whole, […]

Just last month I was complaining about how WordPress needs to do more on Core Web Vitals. While the Automattic team has included several changes to speed up WordPress over the years, it’s obvious that it was never an overriding concern. Otherwise, they would never have decided to include a huge CSS styles file for […]

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I wait for around 4 days before I update plugins on my site. The reason is simple – I want to avoid any bugs that come with new updates. So for me, 4 days is the minimum time I wait since the last change. You won’t believe […]

With Google’s Core Web Vitals’ deadline in May drawing every closer, website owners are becoming more and more desperate to get the “green” lines in their search consoles like this: Unfortunately, they’re finding that getting a good score on all these following metrics is really hard! Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) First […]

I perform a regular audit of the traffic hitting the origin server on my site WP-Tweaks, to see which requests are using the most resources. For a while now, I’ve noticed that feeds were the cause of a large number of requests. So if your website is: example.com/ Then your feed URL is likely: example.com/feed/ […]