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…
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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.…
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…