WordPress’ built in page builder hasn’t always had the best reputation. Earlier versions were often clunky, unintuitive, or required some knowledge of HTML to get the most out of them. That was the past, though, and things have moved on! The current WordPress Block Editor is by far the most capable native editor to date….
You’ve most likely heard of caching if you’ve been involved in creating a website. What is caching, why is it used, and what do you need to know about caching? This post should give you an overview of what caching is, how you can use it on your WordPress website, and the benefits of doing…
Google fonts are great! I mean LOOK AT THEM ALL!!! All these fonts, for free! That’s amazing thanks Google!…. Oh, wait, what’s this in my pagespeed insight report!? RENDER BLOCKING RESOURCES from fonts.googleapis.com?!? Noooooooo! It’s like Google complaining about Google! Well, not quite, and who cares? Here’s how to optimise Google fonts when using WordPress….
Images are at the heart of every WordPress website, helping to capture attention, tell stories, and showcase products or services. But while high quality visuals are important for engagement, they can also be one of the biggest culprits behind slow loading times and poor performance. That’s where image optimisation comes in. By reducing file sizes…
Using preload, preconnect, and prefetch resource hints can improve your website’s performance by reducing page load times. This post covers what each of these resource hints does, how to implement them on your WordPress website, when it’s beneficial to use them, and the potential pitfalls of relying on too many resource hints. Table of Contents…
Minfying and combining JavaScript and CSS is often an opportunity you’ll see to improve your WordPress website when using tools like Pagespeed Insights or Debug Bear’s page speed test when analysing your website. Why would you want to minify and combine your website’s CSS or JS? What’s the benefit of minfying and combining and are…
Render blocking resources can be one of the harder problems to deal with when using WordPress, as these resources aren’t something you’ve explicitly put in place yourself. Dealing with this problem isn’t something you can do by upgrading your WordPress hosting, you have to optimise your WordPress to address this problem. This post covers what…
When WordPress displays a “There has been a critical error on this website” message it’s not always obvious why this has happened and what you’ll need to do to fix the critical error on your WordPress website. This post covers what critical errors are, what causes critical errors, how you can work out what’s causing…
The .htaccess file is present in Apache and Litespeed web server environments (but not Nginx). This file, although small is very powerful and can be used to achieve a range of objectives and allows you to make changes to the server’s behaviour for a specific directory without editing the main server configuration files. This article…
Persistent Object Cache. A persistent object cache is one of those recommendations your CMS might display as a recommendation, especially if you’re aiming to boost performance. But what exactly does using a persistent object cache involve and why would you want to use one? In this article, I’ll explain what object caching is, why it’s…
