If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Internet, it’s this: People want things fast. They want Amazon to deliver packages in under 2 seconds. They want to binge watch entire TV shows the second they get released. And they definitely want sites to load rocket fast.
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Interested in a powerful way to speed up your site’s global load times? Using Cloudflare full-page caching for WordPress lets you serve your entire WordPress site from Cloudflare’s huge global network, which offers impressively consistent (and fast) global load times. However, if you want to avoid breaking your WordPress site, you’ll need to properly configure ... Read more
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Hey, WordPress fans. Hopefully, the Americans among us have recovered from Turkey day because it’s officially Black Friday. That means some amazing deals on WordPress plugins, themes, and hosting. To help you find you find the best deals, we published our own roundup of the best WordPress Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals in 2020. ... Read more
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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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You’re super excited about the fantastic new website you are building. Your enthusiasm has even driven you to create social media channels to drive traffic to it. But while you are building your site, what will people see in the meantime? The default error page is ugly and will discourage them from visiting in the [...]
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