We all know that performance and speed are a critical part of how visitors perceive their experience on a website. That’s why we use optimized web hosting plans, install CDNs, and utilize caching plugins to keep WordPress sites running quickly and smoothly. For some of your clients, however, paying for VPS or managed WordPress hosting...
In a recent post, I demonstrated the easy way to move a WordPress site into a Multisite network, using plugins. For many sites, this method works perfectly fine. But what if your site’s settings are a bit more complex? If you move your site using plugins, you’ll be able to move two things: your content...
One of the most frequent questions I get asked by my students is this: how do you move an existing WordPress site into a Multisite network? This post answers that question and takes you through the steps you need to follow to move a site into a network. In this post, we’ll look at: Choosing a...
You’re not a beginner anymore. You don’t need to watch another tutorial on how to install WordPress, set up a theme, or find and install plugins. But, that doesn’t mean that you know everything. Maybe you’ve built a simple theme or plugin, but not the sort of thing you’d consider submitting to WordPress.org. Or maybe...
There are many different reasons why users might want to change the default upload directory in WordPress. In terms of performance, it makes it possible to host images on a subdomain, also making backups more efficient. Changing the directory can also create a different URL structure and organization for media files. Prior to WordPress 3.5,...
Page load times will always be a concern for web developers, especially as you discover new ways to impress visitors with custom imagery, dynamic content, and more video. That’s because with each new asset added, your site has to generate additional HTTPS requests in order to communicate with your visitors’ browsers. And those HTTPS requests...
If you use a mobile device to browse the internet, you’ll have noticed lots of sites with burger menus. These are menus that are hidden behind a ‘burger’ icon that the user can tap on, to reveal the whole menu. The reason they’re called ‘burger menus’ is because of the icon that normally represents them...
