WordPress

One of the problems with long articles is that it can be hard to persuade a user to take some action. Sometimes the user gets “scroll fatigue”, where they whizz past your content, no matter how much you try and get them to engage. I’ve written before about how to break up content, but often […]

I’d written earlier about how to create internal anchor links in WordPress to skip from one section of the page to another. From here, it’s just a couple more steps to creating footnotes, with a small change. Here’s how you do it. 1. Create the Footnote First with an HTML Anchor Link Since we don’t […]

At this point, the Gutenberg WordPress editor is WordPress. The debate about whether or not it’s a good thing is long over, and I myself have come around to the view that Gutenberg is far better than what we had before. One of the features I find myself using constantly is the ability to create […]

If you run a WordPress site, you’ve already come across articles and tutorials telling you to make changes to either a theme or a plugin file. Apart from that, you might need to make changes to your own CSS without relying upon the inbuilt methods of your theme via the customizer. WordPress has allowed us […]

I’m sure many premium WordPress plugins have caught your eye if you’re like me. Often the free version is good enough for your needs, but sometimes you just need those extra features. So you go to their website and see that the plugin requires a subscription. Usually a yearly fee. Should you go ahead and […]

I’ve written about how to add custom CSS to WordPress. Instead of modifying your theme’s style.css file, creating a child theme, or using a plugin, I suggest you simply create a new stylesheet with the additional CSS rules and include them in WordPress using the wp_enqueue_style function. This way, your custom CSS rules are independent […]

In an earlier article, I’d talked about some WordPress maintenance tasks that you should do regularly. One of them was limiting the number of post revisions that WordPress saves by default. However, in that article, I’d mentioned a plugin you could use that did several different maintenance tasks at once from the same interface. But […]

A website and its associated backend tend to build up “crud” as time goes by. Especially if you’re running a complicated CMS like WordPress with a lot of moving parts. This dirt accumulates mainly in the database even if you don’t make any active changes to your site. Automatic plugin updates, cron jobs, user interactions, […]

Reusable blocks in WordPress Gutenberg are an amazing feature that has greatly improved the maintainability of code on websites. I use them all the time for block scripts, special CSS instructions, and even for some repeatable patterns. The WordPress pattern directory is still a work in progress, and you can’t create your own patterns without […]

Caching is the secret sauce that can transform a slow page into one that loads blazing fast. There are many layers of caching – you can cache on the origin server, a POP endpoint, and even the browser. Using these techniques, you can obtain cache hit ratios of over 90% on networks like Cloudflare. However, […]