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If you run a WordPress site, you’ve already come across articles and tutorials telling you to make changes to either a theme or a plugin file. Apart from that, you might need to make changes to your own CSS without relying upon the inbuilt methods of your theme via the customizer. WordPress has allowed us […]
I’m sure many premium WordPress plugins have caught your eye if you’re like me. Often the free version is good enough for your needs, but sometimes you just need those extra features. So you go to their website and see that the plugin requires a subscription. Usually a yearly fee. Should you go ahead and […]
I find it astonishing that so few web hosts get backups right. In my opinion, the following backup features are absolutely essential for hosting, regardless of what kind of plan you have: Backups available on ALL plans Automatic daily and weekly or monthly backups INSTANT restoration with no need to open a ticket On-demand backups […]
You can configure both LiteSpeed and NGINX for server-side caching. Apache doesn’t allow caching stored HTML files, so if you want to enable this feature without resorting to application-level plugins, you need a different server. LiteSpeed and NGINX are the leading candidates. But which one is better? The answer is LiteSpeed for the reasons listed […]
I’ve written about how to add custom CSS to WordPress. Instead of modifying your theme’s style.css file, creating a child theme, or using a plugin, I suggest you simply create a new stylesheet with the additional CSS rules and include them in WordPress using the wp_enqueue_style function. This way, your custom CSS rules are independent […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of cookie consent banners. When I visit a page, I often don’t want to interact with it by clicking. It’s especially annoying if a consent banner gets in the way of consent. I don’t want to click “Yes” OR “No”. Just leave me be! Unfortunately, GDPR rules […]
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) already tracks a bunch of events – scrolls, page views, outbound clicks, and searches. However, I personally need to track specific events like clicks on specific URL patterns, and I need to know on which pages those clicks happened, which URLs were clicked, and how many times they were clicked. To […]
Earlier, I’d written about Google forcing us to upgrade to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) even though it’s nowhere near ready and is inferior to the existing Universal Analytics (UA). Since then, I’ve been trying out various analytics software, one of which was Microsoft’s Clarity. After Google, Microsoft is the biggest consumer-facing name in this department, […]
Unless you’ve lost your Internet connectivity for a while, you’re surely aware of Google Analytics 4. The last time I checked it out, it was a monstrously complex piece of software that requires you to jump through hoops for even the simplest analytics. I’d posted a review of Google Analytics 4 at the time and […]
In an earlier article, I’d talked about some WordPress maintenance tasks that you should do regularly. One of them was limiting the number of post revisions that WordPress saves by default. However, in that article, I’d mentioned a plugin you could use that did several different maintenance tasks at once from the same interface. But […]