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Yesterday, Cloudflare announced that they were integrating full page caching into their WordPress plugin – a functionality they term as “APO”. Automatic Platform Optimization is a concept that Cloudflare wants to explore as an avenue for monetization as it costs $5/m for free users, and is automatically included for all pain plans. The announcement is […]

With search engines trying harder to understand the context of your website, it’s essential that you become familiar with JSON and how to effectively use it in WordPress in a scalable manner. In the past, we needed to use 3rd party plugins or rely on the generosity of themes to allow us to add JSON […]

If you’ve chosen to host on WordPress, then most of the framework decisions are already made for you. You don’t need to choose the development language, the security framework, and many other things that you would normally have to choose in order to start a site from scratch. But for optimal performance there are still […]

At NameHero’s we’re big fans of Yoast SEO. We use it for all our posts, and it provides us with useful guidance to keep us on track. Even on my own website, I’ve switched to using Yoast after trying all the others. These days it seems, there’s no other game in town. When you think […]

During these few months of quarantine, I’ve been approached by several members of friends and family on how to start a new website. These are mostly “spur of the moment” personal blogs – or perhaps a space to post some images and share them. For these basic use case scenarios, I always recommend free wordpress.com […]

I’ve been using WordPress since 2008, and I’ve followed the evolution of its in-house editor for a long time. The latest Gutenberg editor has changed the way I write and compose posts from within WordPress, and the Automattic team deserves kudos for that. However, I still use MS Word to compose a lot of my […]

There are many examples on this blog, where we provide code to add to your theme’s functions.php file, or even for insertion into a child theme. For example, here’s a tutorial from our knowledgebase on how to add custom code to WordPress. However, we perhaps don’t stress often enough how important it is to NOT […]

WordPress 5.5 is scheduled for release on the 11th of August 2020. While it’s still almost a couple of weeks away, here’s a quick rundown of the major changes to expect. There’s no doubt about it – this is a major release, and it’s only the second one in 2020. As always, the changes fall […]

A while back I’d written about how to reduce your Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) to zero by loading your site on an ultra-low connection and see what moves around. However, even after getting a CLS of 0 seconds on the Google testing tools, I was still getting a high value in the search console that […]

When you start delving a little more deeply into WordPress and want to customize things beyond what is offered by default via the GUI customization options, you enter the world of modifying code to suit your needs. At this point, it’s important to do things correctly. Every WordPress site tells you to be careful and […]