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…
Tag: wordpress
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…
WordPress plugins for Better Security
In recent weeks I have created and published two WordPress plugins, my first but certainly not last additions to the plugins library. Better Passwords This is a WordPress plugin that stops the use of a bad passwords, including those in the Have I Been Pwned? breached password database. This plugin sets a default minimum password…
Fixing 525 and 520 errors from Cloudflare
I was getting 525 and 520 errors on a number of assets, mostly .svg files, not always the same ones. So I thought I’d find out a bit more about what was going on and see what I could do to solve this. Cloudflare describes a 525 as SSL handshake failed, and suggested looking at…
Setting up Cloudflare and WordPress
I’m happy to announce that have a new course live on Skillshare and Udemy… Setting up Cloudflare and WordPress This course follows on from my courses on setting up Cloudflare for website security and performance and setting up Cloudflare – page rules deep dive, which go through all the Cloudflare settings, explaining what’s available and…