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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…

  • Schema, Rich Snippets and Microdata

    Schema is the site that gives developers the proper code to display Rich Snippets. Rich Snippets are Google search results that stand out from the rest. Microdata is the type of code used to display Rich Snippets.

  • Fixing a hacked site and what I learned

    So a client of mind, and his WordPress website that I didn’t build was hacked. He asked if I could fix it. Here’s what I learned throughout the process: If your site is hacked, you could get blacklisted by Google. This means when people visit your site, the site will have this big red warning…

  • AdBlock blocks WordPress images

    I was using the WordPress plugin Force Regenerate Thumbnails to change the dimensions of product images on an ecommerce website. After making the changes, I noticed that none of my images displayed. I checked the code using Chrome’s Inspector and discovered that the images had styling added to them: element.style{ display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; opacity:…

  • Soft hy­phens and non break­ing spaces equal bet­ter ty­po­graphy

    I re­cently dis­covered two HTML spe­cial char­ac­ters that I hadn’t known about be­fore. The non break­ing space and the soft hy­phen. The non break­ing space The non break­ing space is just what it is: it adds an in­vis­ible space between two words keep­ing them from break­ing to a new line. This spe­cial char­ac­ter is use­ful…