Have you ever navigated to your website, and found an unexplained 404 error? Sometimes you try and load several pages, and none of them work! The site isn’t down however, since the homepage seems to be working fine. It’s understandably easy to panic. But calm down. The answer is probably just that the permalinks settings […]
Why I’m Reconsidering The Jetpack Plugin For WordPress
The Jetpack plugin is one of the most staple plugins on any WordPress installation. Ever since its release in 2011, it’s been a runaway hit with millions upon millions of downloads. It’s developed and maintained by Automaticc themselves, and so doesn’t run into any trust issues. I’ve been a staunch advocate of Jetpack for years […]
How To Enable Object Caching On Your Website
Unlike other hosting providers, NameHero offers object caching on your website for free. This is due to our use of the LiteSpeed web server, and the LiteSpeed caching plugin. Other hosts typically utilize Apache, which doesn’t have such functionality out of the box. As a result, the object caching is an additional module that you […]
You (Probably) Don’t Need a CDN Other than Cloudflare
Cloudflare comes with almost every host these days. It functions as a CDN, and a proxy server, a firewall, and many other things. It’s free, and for a long while, I fell prey to the mindset that it must not be as good as other paid CDN services. After all, if something is free, then […]
The Case Against Responsive Tables
When designing websites for mobile devices, you’ll keep finding unusual use cases that you didn’t plan for. No matter how responsive your theme is, you’ll need to decide how to handle a variety of scenarios. Tables are one example. I’ve long struggled with the conundrum of how to display them on mobile devices. Should responsive […]
How To Insert A Latest Post Link In Your Blog Posts
One of the challenges in creating a content heavy website, is about retaining your visitors. When you have a lot of posts, chances are that a reader will be interested in more than just the current article. Of course, a well-crafted piece of content will have internal links to all parts of your site, and […]
Most WordPress Responsive Menu Plugins Suck
I’m a big fan of responsive WordPress themes – ones that have it built in right from the start. In fact, I’d previously written about how we need to stop using separate themes for mobiles, and instead maintain the same code base for all devices. Unfortunately, sometimes our themes don’t give us that luxury and […]
How Many Layers Of Website Caching Are Acceptable?
Dynamic website caching is one of the bedrocks of any modern website. Even if you have low traffic, caching can help you deliver your content faster to users, reducing the bounce rate, increasing your conversions, and even score points with search engines. With Google’s Lighthouse initiative, it now collects data on average load speeds of […]
How Safari’s ITP Will Impact Your Affiliate Sales
I was going through my Google Ads reports the other day and was pleased to see a whole bunch of conversions on my site. Imagine my surprise when the total number of sales reported by my affiliate provider for the day remained pretty much unchanged! What was the problem? Was I targeting the wrong kind […]
How To Avoid DDoS Attacks On WordPress
Imagine you take all the effort to optimize your site, ensure that no extra scripts are loading, and that you’ve asynchronized all everything you can. You get a nice page speed score and are happy. Then one day you check out your site speed reports in Google Analytics, and you find that your pages are […]