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…
WordPress all pages not found except the home page. It’s one of our more common drivers of support related to WordPress hosting. This post covers what you’ll see when your WordPress website has this problem, how to fix the all pages not found except home page problem, and an explanation about how the fix works,…
Choosing the right PHP handler can feel like picking the engine for a car: it determines how smoothly everything runs under the hood. In this post, we’ll help you compare PHP handler options—PHP-FPM vs suPHP, mod_lsapi, and mod_php—by sharing a bit of history, real-world pros and cons, and friendly advice for each. What Is a…
“How Do I Find a Good Web Designer? I know I need a website.. but I’ve come to the conclusion that you’d probably be wise to have someone make this for me… but how do I know who’s good and who isn’t…?” This blog post aims to help you find a web designer who can…
