At some point in your site’s journey, you become important enough to start getting hit by spambots. I don’t know exactly what the limit is, but it always happens. This can take many forms – rogue crawlers, comment spam, and login spam. Of these three, by far the last one is the most annoying. You […]
Why AMP Pages Might Be A Bad Idea For Your Site
We all have experience with AMP pages, whether you realize it or not. Google is trying to make the web a more uniform experience, where the only distinction between website is the content – not the speed, or ads, or any of the other quirks that normally hinder the experience of a website. As a […]
How To Enable Dynamic Caching On NameHero
Normal shared hosting is pretty basic. You get a Linux server, with the ability to install a few applications, and that’s it. Cheap web hosting doesn’t include any additional features like a real CDN, backup solutions, or dynamic caching. Which is what makes NameHero so different from other hosts on the market. Unlike the big […]
How To Put An Image In The WordPress Title
Most blog titles will be plain text. That’s what users expect generally and it’s what they like to see on Google. It’s a fine line between standing out in the SERPS and being seen as spam. It’s possible if you do it carefully. Sometimes you may have seen additional character sets in the titles of […]
The Best WordPress Table Plugin (For Now)
I’ve had a long history with displaying tables in WordPress. I particularly like them because Google tends to pick them up for featured snippets. Unfortunately, finding the right one for me isn’t easy because of the following requirements: Needs to easily display on smaller screens Needs to display a “caption” tag Should be easy to […]
Fix Mobile Usability Issues Caused By robots.txt
A few days back, I got this notification from the Google search console on one of my older sites: Apparently, there were sudden “mobile usability” issues – and the problems were hard to debug. Namely: Clickable elements too close together Text too small to read Now I always use responsive themes for my sites – […]
Stop Using Separate “Mobile Themes” For Your Webpage!
Smartphones and tablets have truly changed the way we consume content. And it’s not just handheld devices, but even normal laptops and computers come in such a bewildering array of sizes, that it might seem impossible to optimize for all of them. But there’s no turning back the clock. 2018 was the year when mobile […]
“Cache Everything” On Cloudflare The RIGHT Way
Everyone knows that CDNs are only for static content. CSS, JS, images, and font files for the most part. The “static” is what makes CDNs efficient. The idea is that a piece of content needs to be retrieved only once per EDGE server (not once in general), and then users are served a copy of […]
Cloudflare Railgun – Does It Work? Not Always
Cloudflare can sometimes be one of those “hit and miss” applications. Their services are so comprehensive, that it’s very easy to overlook a configuration error. Each website needs to figure out what works and what doesn’t within its own unique environment. In this article, I’ll talk about Railgun. Ryan has already explained how to set […]
3 Reasons Why I’ve Started To Like WordPress Gutenberg
Well before WordPress’ Gutenberg was released, I tried it out in its various beta forms and absolutely hated it. In fact, I’d written a post here on NameHero about why it was annoying as hell. But since this was what we had to work with, I forced myself to switch to the block editor for […]