Page speed and security should be two issues on the mind of every WordPress site owner. We wrote a huge post about WordPress and page speed back in 2014. And since then, page speed has only gotten more important. Users want sites to load fast - 30% of people want sites to load in under one second. And if your site doesn’t, they’re probably going to go somewhere else.
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Struggling with a bad Cumulative Layout Shift on WordPress? Cumulative Layout Shift, or CLS for short, is one of three metrics in Google’s new Core Web Vitals project. Beyond just generally being a good measure of user experience on your site, Google announced that it will start using Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor ... Read more
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Hey, WordPress fans. This week, WordPress 5.6 gets ready for prime time with its first release candidate. The official release is currently scheduled for December 8th – mark it on your calendars. Beyond that, the WordPress.org theme previewer might finally get starter content (no more ugly demos!) and WordPress.com kicked off a popular blog for ... Read more
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Searching for the best WordPress podcast hosting? There are lots of great WordPress podcasting plugins, which we’ve detailed on this blog. However, a podcasting plugin by itself usually isn’t enough, you also need podcast hosting to go with it. Podcast hosting gives you a reliable place to store and distribute your podcast’s files. It makes ... Read more
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Hey, WordPress fans. This week, Envato, the company behind the popular ThemeForest and CodeCanyon marketplaces, officially passed $1 billion in community earnings since its launch 14 years ago. While that’s not 100% from WordPress, that’s still pretty dang impressive. Beyond that, the Biden/Harris team launched a transition website and it’s powered by WordPress. Another big ... Read more
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You know what sucks? When your emails show up in your intended recipients’ spam folders. You’re sending content that needs to be seen, but the Internet gatekeepers are sending it straight to junk. It’s annoying. But as anyone who has tried to receive Contact Form 7 emails at their Gmail account can attest to, it happens far too often with emails sent by your WordPress site.
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Ever wished that you could organize the WordPress Media Library with folders? As your site grows, it can be hard to keep track of all your media files because WordPress doesn’t do a great job of organizing them with its native features. Folders let you neatly organize every file so that you can always find ... Read more
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Looking for a WordPress events calendar plugin that doesn’t bog you down with features? Sugar Calendar might be just what you need. It’s a lightweight, but functional, event calendar plugin from Sandhills Development, the same team behind Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, WP Simple Pay, and (formerly) Restrict Content Pro (before recently selling it to iThemes). ... Read more
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Looking for an easy way to connect the WordPress Media Library to Google Drive? In this article, I’m going to show you a simple way to sync your WordPress Media Library with Google Drive in both directions. That is, when you add a file to your WordPress Media Library, that file will show up in ... Read more
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Did your WordPress site’s Facebook or Instagram embeds stop working suddenly on October 24? Don’t worry, you’re not alone, and there’s nothing wrong with your site. Instead, Facebook recently made a big change to its API that breaks pretty much all Facebook embeds (and Instagram embeds, for that matter). Before, you used to be able ... Read more
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