Finding out your WordPress website has been hacked isn’t good news. Knowing how to deal with this, and what to do to clean, secure and harden your WordPress can b e tricky if you haven’t had to deal with this before. This guide should help you deal with a hacked WordPress website. If, at any…
Fear and Loathing in Bot-Vegas (Otherwise Known as the Internet). The internet has always been rife with automated traffic, crawlers, bots, monitoring and non-human activity. Recently this has begun to grow at a disproportionate rate. Today, for the first time in 10 years of working in web hosting, I saw something that genuinely worried me,…
You make a website, you search for it, you don’t find it. It’s annoying isn’t it? Find out why this can happen, what causes this problem and how to get your website found in Google search results. Specific problems, their effect, and how to fix them. Table of Contents Google search basics Your website hasn’t…
Using pagespeed insights to check the performance of your website is quite a good idea. Nobody likes their website visitors to have a poor browsing experience. Pagespeed insights can be used to identify issues with your website, and addressing these can lead to improved performance metrics, better rankings, a better user experience, and more value…
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…
