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This article ties together a series of articles I’ve written on caching for WordPress. Ever since I migrated from shared hosting to a VPS, I’ve found myself obsessing over the necessary caching configurations I need to set up. My site is a WordPress site, and my previous web host automatically installed memcached for me. But […]

For a long time, I didn’t give much thought to caching static content on a server level. After all, I already use a CDN (Cloudflare), so why should I bother about how fast static files are served? A few days back as the previous year rolled over into the other, I understood how important it […]

Earlier, I’d written a tutorial on how to install memcached on a VPS that integrates with PHP. In this tutorial, I’ll write about how to do the same with Redis. Like memcached, Redis is another caching mechanism that can speed up reads and writes by using your (much faster) RAM instead of accessing the database […]

If you’re running WordPress on a VPS – managed or unmanaged – your web hosting provider won’t include memcached as part of the installation. A managed VPS takes care of OS updates, setting up the control panel, e-mail, etc., but only goes so far. Unlike shared hosting, where your web host might have a checkmark […]

Back in April, I wrote an article gushing about WordPress FSE. At the time, I was very excited about the new development that promised to let us edit our sites with a fluidity and ease never before available. Now that Gutenberg is a mature content editor, FSE could use blocks to let us create our […]

One of the downsides of no longer using sidebars is that you lose space to put stuff like “Related Posts”. But I still stick with my decision to do away with sidebars on my site – mostly because when it comes to long-form content, the sidebars vanish quickly anyway. For lasting benefits, you’ll have to […]

The All-in-One WP Migration plugin is hands down the best tool you can use to migrate your WordPress website from one host to another. I used it myself a couple of days ago to transition my website, and it really is simple. We have a great tutorial on how to use this plugin – it’s […]

Like it or not, Google is the unlikely champion of website speed. By integrating CWV speed and usability metrics as ranking criteria in the SERPs, platform creators are finally starting to take the issue seriously. As a user and fan, WordPress often frustrates me with their lackadaisical approach to speed issues. For the longest time, […]

If you’ve run a website for a while, you know that you can sometimes get emails from hackers trying to use the “password reset” button. While this shouldn’t work because they don’t have access to your email (hopefully!), it can still be annoying to sift through the spam, and in general, it causes additional workload […]

A friend of mine recently reached out to me for SEO advice on a new site he was working on. Taking a quick look, I saw that he hadn’t yet put the main keyword/keyphrase into the title! Naturally, we all know this is the single most important step you take to identify your site as […]