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.…
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Litespeed and Wordfence don’t play nice
Having recently switched web hosting to Krystal, who support Litespeed, I’ve been playing about with the Litespeed Cache plugin for WordPress. I’ll write about that in more detail another day, but for now, I wanted to talk about what happened when Litespeed and Wordfence (the security plugin I’m currently using) got in a room together. Well, it…
FontAwesome awesomeness in WordPress
FontAwesome is a font, that’s awesome. Except these days it’s not just a font, because with FA5 you can either use a Webfont with CSS, or my preferred option of SVG with javascript. In case you’re not aware, it’s one of the premier libraries of icons that is used across the web to give websites…
Self host Google Analytics in WordPress
I’ve said before that you should always aim to self host static assets to improve the performance and stability of your website. I’ve also written about how to self host Google Fonts in WordPress, as this is one of the common use cases. Well today I’d like to talk about another common use case, and that’s Google…
Self host Google Fonts in WordPress
I wrote a few days ago about why you should self host static assets, and one of the key use cases that I had in mind (other than jQuery, which I mentioned in the post) was Google Fonts. Now I don’t have a problem with Google Fonts itself, in fact it’s a great service that I…
WordPress custom sort order
I’ve been battling recently with trying to get a custom sort order to work in WordPress, and despite a lot of Googling I found it really hard to find an answer that worked. I love Advanced Custom Fields, it’s a fantastic WordPress plugin for adding custom fields to pretty much anything in WordPress, but I typically…