I’ve been stuck for a few hours trying to figure out why one of the websites I’m currently working on for a client wasn’t working. I was getting the error below whenever I tried to access the theme customiser… The theme directory “dark” does not exist. Now to be fair, this is correct, the theme…
Tag: wordpress
Time To First Byte – part 2
I often do performance optimisation on WordPress sites for clients, and have recently completed such a project. One really critical metric I explored is Time To First Byte (TTFB). But it can be hard to really drill down into it. In my last post I spoke specifically about how to use the Server-Timing response header…
Better Security Pro is coming
Earlier this year I released two new security plugins to the WordPress plugin library; Better Passwords and Better Headers. I then followed that up a couple of months later with an announcement of a third plugin; Better Detection. These are all available for free from the WordPress plugin library. Today I am announcing that since then…
Cloudflare full page caching – part 3
In part one I discussed the benefits of using Cloudflare to cache our generated HTML and in part two we set the Cloudflare Worker and got it working. However, I’ve found that there’s one particular tweak to the example Worker which helps things run a little smoother for some setups. I’ve talked before about WordPress cron jobs,…
Cloudflare full page caching – part 2
In part one I discussed the benefits of using Cloudflare to cache our generated HTML in it’s network of 194+ edge nodes, in order to get maximum speed and reduce load on our origin server. So let’s go ahead and do it now. I’m assuming that you’ve already got a Cloudflare account and it’s in use…
Cloudflare full page caching – part 1
WordPress is a great CMS, really powerful and flexible. But the downside that comes with that is that is can be rather slow, when not properly optimised. And even if it has been properly optimised, you’re still hitting the database a lot of the time, and this can really slow things down under heavy load.…