If you’re designing a website for your client, you want to choose the best tool for the job. And WordPress often fits that bill. You’ve probably already done enough work in the past to know why, and you also know exactly which plugins etc to use to get the result your client wants. There’s just […]
How To Transfer A WordPress.com Blog To WordPress.org
A lot of people start off their blogs on free hosting services like WordPress.com, Blogger, and others and then migrate to a self-hosted service after realizing the limitations that a free hosted website has. Typically, they want more freedom to design their website than what something like WordPress.com can provide. And when they migrate, there’s […]
Yes, You Still Need A CDN With Cloud Hosting!
There are a plethora of questions posted on sites like Quora and Reddit asking about the difference between “cloud hosting” and a “CDN”. These are two completely different products. However, it’s not hard to understand why this confusion exists. When a layperson hears the phrase “cloud hosting”, they get an image of their site being […]
Add JavaScript To Open Links In A New Window In WordPress
One of the biggest benefits of the Gutenberg WordPress editor as I mentioned in my earlier post on one year after, is the “Custom HTML” block that allows you to insert arbitrary HTML, JavaScript and CSS code into a WordPress post. I’d previously talked about using it for JSON structured data, but you can also […]
3 Methods For Additional WordPress Security
As your site becomes more popular, the stakes get higher and higher. You find yourself thinking of more ways to secure your site. Now of course, you can do what everyone else does – plugins to defend against login attempts, strong passwords, and even 2FA. But in this article, I’m going to discuss three additional […]
Why LiteSpeed Cache Is Better Than Caching Plugins
Caching is an important part of any website’s performance strategy. Especially for systems like WordPress, which heavily rely on dynamic, database-powered pages. It dramatically reduces the system resources required to serve a page, leading to faster load times for end-users, and makes everyone happy. However, not all caches are built equally. There are essentially two […]
When To Use Public JavaScript Libraries
Public JavaScript CDNs are servers maintained by large entities that serve popular libraries to users around the world. These CDNs use a geographically distributed architecture to deliver static assets from servers closest to users. As a result, they’re usually a lot more efficient than serving it from your own origin server. However, the truth is […]
How To Deploy Content Closer To Your Users
While the web is supposed to function in a uniform manner regardless of where you access it from, it rarely lives up to those ideals. In the real world, pages are fast or slow depending on where you access them from. Some connections are fast, and some are slow. And while in general, closer servers […]
Should You Buy A Special Backup Plan For Your Website?
The few people I know who own a website are pretty casual about their backup strategies. I don’t blame them – unlike us who live and breathe in the industry, most individuals have other stuff to do in their life, and don’t spend time thinking about “best practices” or “worst-case scenarios”. Nevertheless, if you or […]
Should You Purchase Plugins From CodeCanyon?
The other day I saw what I thought was a cool table plugin on CodeCanyon. Now since I personally display a lot of data on my website, tables are a particularly interesting topic for me. I’ve written about two table plugins on NameHero already, here and here, and am always on the lookout for better […]