WordPress

In April, I had written about Full Site Editing (FSE) coming to WordPress. The idea is to expand the notion of widgets to outside just the post or page content area, and allow users to place them in other areas of the theme like the header, footer, and sidebars. While we haven’t yet reached FSE, […]

WordPress Gutenberg changed the focus of the editor from writing, to “page building”. While a lot of people including myself hated it at first, its benefits have begun to grow on me. And with the bugs ironed out, I can unequivocally say that it’s far better than the original editor. Now I use blocks myself […]

The goal of every website is different. Some just want to provide information. Others are looking to persuade you into taking some kind of action. In the latter category, we have products and services that customers are considering, and about which people might want more information. How do we get it to them? How do […]

As a website owner, you want your visitors to realize that your site contains the most up-to-date information. This means that you frequently have to include dates in your titles and content. But let’s be honest it’s not just for visitors, but also search engines. Some of us might wrinkle our nose in distaste at […]

Google’s Core Web Vitals update is forcing us to update the way we design pages. WordPress itself has modified the way it includes stylesheets. Now the list of rules that are sent along with the page is much smaller and more focused. But we need to change the way we do things as well. For […]

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, […]

Just last month I was complaining about how WordPress needs to do more on Core Web Vitals. While the Automattic team has included several changes to speed up WordPress over the years, it’s obvious that it was never an overriding concern. Otherwise, they would never have decided to include a huge CSS styles file for […]

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I wait for around 4 days before I update plugins on my site. The reason is simple – I want to avoid any bugs that come with new updates. So for me, 4 days is the minimum time I wait since the last change. You won’t believe […]