Just 3 days ago I announced a new WordPress plugin; Better Detection. And now here I am, announcing a second one; Better Speed. Better Speed Improve the loading speed of your website by removing bloat and unused features. This plugin will allow you to easily remove bloat and turn off unused features, in order to streamline your…
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Better Detection – a new WordPress plugin
A couple of months ago I wrote a post about WordPress plugins for Better Security, in which I talked about the two WordPress plugins that I’d already published (Better Passwords and Better Headers), both of which have been updated since. I also teased that I was working on a third. Well today I can announce that…
WordPress Cron jobs solved
WordPress has an interesting mechanism referred to as “cron”, but it’s not cron as you may know it, if you’re of a more technical leaning. There are a number of background tasks that need to run in order to keep a WordPress site ticking along nicely. For example, scheduled posts. Ever wondered how these actually…
Divi filtered portfolio in 3 columns
I’m not bashing by any means, I can see why Divi is such a popular WordPress theme, but for someone like me who is used to creating custom themes, it can be really difficult to work within the confines of a page builder instead of just creating whatever look and feel you want. With that…
Web ARX Security
I’ve written before about the Web ARX Security plugin for WordPress, which I’m a big fan of. In fact it’s even better now! Previously it was only available for WordPress, but now you can apply it to any PHP-based website, so it works with Joomla, Drupal and Magento as well. You can also configure the…
Pre-fetching links to improve performance
I was stumbling around the web the other day when I came across Addy Osmani’s website (he’s an Engineering Manager at Google working on Chrome) and I was looking at the open source projects he’s worked on. One in particular stood out for me; Quicklink. The idea is pretty simple, but also very elegant. This library waits…