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In mid-2019, I had written a post about Google’s decision to stop supporting “noindex” directives in robots.txt. My feelings on the subject haven’t changed since then – the robots.txt should be the right place for this tag, as this directive is exclusive to robots. But Google powered ahead anyway, so I have no choice but […]
We tend to think of our sites as constantly growing. More pages. More content. And that is indeed true for certain types of domains. For example, news sites will always be generating more stuff. The same is true for social media or opinion bloggers. But not all sites need to be constantly growing. Some can […]
When it comes to storage, most people only think about SSD vs HDD. SSDs are fast, HDDs are slow. And web hosting that promises the former over the latter is better. And that’s it. However, more recent technology updates have improved the performance of SSDs – and the technology to watch is NVMe drives. It […]
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, […]
Last week, I raised concerns about Google’s FLoC, and how it harms website owners (and users) by opting them into a tracking program without their explicit consent. It appears that others in the WordPress community share my views, as evidenced by the lively community discussion on whether or not WordPress should block FLoC by default. […]
It’s been a cat and mouse game for me over the past few months, dealing with the REST API requests made to my WordPress site. The overwhelmingly large majority of these requests are not benign. They’re hackers scanning for weaknesses. I’d written an article earlier on how I disabled JSON username enumeration based on the […]
Last week, Cloudflare announced in a blog post that it was implementing a new feature – allowing URL rewrites on the EDGE. This is pretty cool. But the post hid another change that I feel is more directly relevant to website owners, and those concerned about website security. Namely URL Normalization. Here’s why that’s important. […]
The tech and browser world has been abuzz with Google’s “FLOC” technology that promises to do away with cookies entirely in favor of federated learning. But will any of this have an impact on website owners? And is it a good thing for us? What is FLOC? Simply put, FLOC means that Google will show […]