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  • 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…

  • Moving from to https on WordPress: My process

    I’ve moved many WordPress sites from http to https. The easiest ways are as follows: If you’re hosted with SiteGround, they have a one-click option and it’s all done. The security certificate is free too. If you’re not on a host that automatically does it for you, and there’s no free SSL, you can do…

  • Best practice: Don’t close your PHP tags

    In WordPress development, I ran into the problem of having white space print at the beginning of the HTML documents. It causes tones of problems with import/export and sitemap plugins. If the PHP isn’t including some HTML, CSS, of JS (which needs to be closed), I don’t need to add the ?> to the end of…

  • Moving from non-www to www in WordPress

    So having your website prepended with www has some technical advantages. Not having www is called a “naked domain name.” There’s a bunch a benefits to www. So I updated my sites to www and here was the process: 1. Update your WordPress database URLs Using WP DB Migrate Pro, or some other tool, change your naked domain name…

  • From WAMP to Instant WordPress (IWP)

    As a Windows user and WordPress developer, I used to develop websites on my local machine using WAMP (Windows Apache, MySQL, and PHP). This turns my computer into a server so I can run a database and everything that’s associated with a WordPress powered website. But WAMP was slow. It was supposed to be fast…

  • Four ways to speed up your WordPress website

    Your hosting type, caching, image sizes and the use of a CDN have everything to do with the speed of your website. Learn about how each plays its part in your website’s speed.