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Neal Chester

  • How to speed up WordPress and pass the Google Page Speed Test

    Updated: Feb 2021 In order to speed up your website, you need to do the following 10 things. This will not only help you pass the Google Page Speed test but also make your site load under 3 seconds and your scores will be very high with sites like Pingdom and WebPageTest. These are not…

  • Targeting IE or everything except IE

    I’ve known for a long time that you can use conditional statements to target Internet Explorer while excluding all the other browsers. Today I learned something new — you can do it in reverse. You can exclude IE from seeing code without effecting the rest of the browsers. This came into need when I wanted…

  • How to regain control of your WordPress site if blocked out

    I was us­ing a plug-in called Bet­ter WP Se­cur­ity (which I strongly don’t re­com­mend). It had a fea­ture that blocks ac­cess to the ad­min sec­tion for a cer­tain time frame. I mis­takenly set the wrong times and when it was time to edit the site I couldn’t be­cause I was blocked out. If something like…

  • Mac is for designers?

    I’m tired of de­sign­ers think­ing Mac com­puters are for cre­at­ive things, as if Mac isn’t your tool of choice, something is wrong with you. I much prefer the PC, here are my reas­ons: I can de­lete a file with just one key The Home and End keys work prop­erly when nav­ig­at­ing a doc­u­ment I can man­age…

  • Notepad++, alternative to Dreamweaver

    It was time to up­grade my soft­ware and I de­cided to find a free al­tern­at­ive to Adobe’s Dream­weaver. I love DW, but it’s bloated with stuff I nev­er use, and it’s ex­pens­ive. Note­Pad++ has proven to be a much bet­ter deal. It in­cludes many of the fea­tures I love and ac­tu­ally used in Dream­weaver, but…

  • This is why I use WordPress

    This info graphic by Devious Media says it all: