Serving scaled images is one of the most overlooked ways to deliver better site performance. Are your images holding your WordPress site back? Images take up a lot of file size space, especially if they’re bloated and oversized. That’s why images should be number one on your list of things to optimize if you’re trying to...
When you upload an image, WordPress does a lot of work behind-the-scenes so you can serve the image to your visitors. You can piggyback on this process and add custom image sizes to save having to resize images manually. In this post, I’ll explain how and why WordPress creates different image sizes. Then I’ll teach...
You’ve got a beautifully designed logo. Well done. Now, what do you do with it? Once your high quality logo is designed and ready to go, it should appear on all your branded material, including your WordPress website. Typically, there are three schools of thought as to where logos can go: in the top-left, top-middle,...
May 27, 2023 will mark twenty years since WordPress officially launched. Its humble beginnings, a conversation sparked between Matt Mullenweg (an American developer) and Mike Little (a British developer), in a quiet corner of the internet. Its historical content nestled safely online, so you can see with your own eyes the very first stirrings of...
In the majority of cases, plugins modify options, metadata or leverage already existing tables (most commonly the posts table) to create new functionality. Custom post types, custom taxonomies, image manipulation, galleries, short-codes – none of these usually need their own database table. This is because the database schema of WordPress (how the database is organised)...
Moving your WordPress site to another location can be a stressful and fiddly experience, not helped by the fact you can’t just simply move your files and database. No, that’s just not how WordPress works. Fortunately, WordPress has a handy “Import” and “Export” tool built in. But unfortunately, it’ll only suit some basic requirements and...
Testing environments provide an easy and relatively inexpensive way to test themes, plugins and even new releases of WordPress without breaking your live site. Many site admins take advantage of these environments where they can do thorough testing before committing changes to a site. If you’ve ever activated a new plugin or upgraded to a...
