Category: WordPress

Yesterday when I was checking up on the Cloudflare cache performance for my site WP-Tweaks.com, I saw this: After filtering traffic that made it past my cache to hit the origin server directly, I saw a huge spike of requests in an incredibly short time. What’s more, they were either redirected or gave a 404. […]

I continue to grapple with the consequences of uninstalling Jetpack on my WordPress website. Earlier, I’d written about how I needed to find an alternative contact form solution to replace the one that Jetpack provided. Now, there’s one more piece of functionality that I’m sure many people use, and which Jetpack provides for free – […]

Last week, I wrote about how I finally uninstalled Jetpack from WordPress. The plugin was too large, had constant updates, utilized external services, and was generally getting too unwieldy. I made the case that it was better to have smaller, specialized plugins instead of a single large one. It helps with site stability by removing […]

I’ve been a faithful Jetpack user for years. I’ve watched as Automatic constantly brought in new features and functionalities, making it ever larger. I’ve had my share of problems with deactivating the REST API and the XMLRPC functionality, while trying to keep Jetpack working. Yesterday however, I took the plunge and uninstalled Jetpack from my […]

A while ago, Google instituted its “Core Web Vitals” metrics and told us that future rankings will be (mildly) impacted by page speed. At this point, I got a little obsessed with reducing my “Time to First Byte” (TTFB) metric in order to reduce my Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) time. I examined so many different […]

WordPress allows programmatic access to its metadata. This means that 3rd party software can connect to it using APIs and not directly through the web interface. It’s useful, because it allows all kinds of cool functionality. For example, Jetpack uses either XMLRPC or REST APIs to obtain all kinds of information about your installation and […]

WordPress is infinitely customizable. All the code is open sourced, and you can just open up an FTP program and change anything you like – from themes, plugins, to even the core files. That doesn’t mean you should, however! Particularly, the core files are something that you should absolutely leave alone. If you want to […]

Yesterday, Cloudflare announced that they were integrating full page caching into their WordPress plugin – a functionality they term as “APO”. Automatic Platform Optimization is a concept that Cloudflare wants to explore as an avenue for monetization as it costs $5/m for free users, and is automatically included for all pain plans. The announcement is […]

With search engines trying harder to understand the context of your website, it’s essential that you become familiar with JSON and how to effectively use it in WordPress in a scalable manner. In the past, we needed to use 3rd party plugins or rely on the generosity of themes to allow us to add JSON […]

If you’ve chosen to host on WordPress, then most of the framework decisions are already made for you. You don’t need to choose the development language, the security framework, and many other things that you would normally have to choose in order to start a site from scratch. But for optimal performance there are still […]