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Articles about configuring, running and optimizing WordPress.

Use SVG Icons To Speed Up Your Website

July 30, 2019 by Technology Poet
Optimize Speed with SVG Icons

Speed up your website load time by only using the SVG icons that you need rather than downloading a full font file.

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags Font Awesome, svg Leave a comment

How To Choose The Perfect WordPress Web Host

July 29, 2019 by Technology Poet
Choosing a High Performance Web Host

Finding a great WordPress host can be difficult amidst all the services claiming to be number one. Here’s a guide on how to choose and my personal recommendation.

Categories Wordpress Hosting Tags Kinsta Leave a comment

Discover This Hidden WordPress Performance Gem

July 29, 2019July 28, 2019 by Technology Poet
WordPress Performance Gem - Plugin Organizer

A little known plugin that can dramatically improve the performance of your WordPress website.

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags Plugin Organizer, WordPress Plugins Leave a comment

Speed Up Image Load On Responsive Websites

July 26, 2019 by Technology Poet
Speed Up Image Load For Responsive Design WordPress Website

The easiest and fastest way to speed up image load on your WordPress website. One of the few techniques that works for responsively designed sites.

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags ShortPixel, ShortPixel Adapative Images, ShortPixel AI Leave a comment

Quitting the WP Engine Habit for Good

August 5, 2018December 27, 2015 by Technology Poet
Quitting WP Engine for Good

There are much better Wordpress hosts out there, here’s a story of finding an amazingly fast Wordpress host.

Categories Wordpress Hosting Tags WP Engine 9 Comments

Leaving WP Engine for the First Time

March 21, 2019November 24, 2015 by Technology Poet
Woman riding motorcycle with big grin on face

It started innocently enough. A little hiccup in one of the more popular sites I run. As page load time spiked to more than 15s I reached out to the WP Engine Support team to get it fixed. Page views had remained stable, and nothing significant had changed in my Wordpress configuration. For weeks I …

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Categories Wordpress Performance Tags WP Engine 4 Comments

How to make your website faster and more secure in 15 mins (spoiler: Cloudflare)

December 30, 2015June 6, 2012 by Technology Poet
Cloudflare improves Wordpress performance

Do you enjoy running slow and insecure websites? Me neither. Get fast. Get secure. Get Cloudflare. And to think they don’t even pay me to say this – their service is truly awesome.

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags cloudflare, IPv6, website performance, website security Leave a comment

Fix broken Facebook sharing – Jetpack only shows the post title in og:description

December 30, 2015April 28, 2012 by Technology Poet
Fix Wordpress Jetpack

If you’re using the Jetpack plugin from Wordpress you’ll notice that when sharing on Facebook the description is just your title repeated. This is because Jetpack incorrectly sets the og:description field. Fix it in three easy steps.

Categories Wordpress Fixes and Tweaks Tags jetpack, og:description, Wordpress 9 Comments

The Essential Guide to Blogging on the iPad

December 30, 2015September 26, 2011 by Technology Poet
Blogging with an iPad

On my most recent trip I decided to jump headfirst into the Post PC era and forgo my cumbersome Lenovo PC in favor of an iPad. I was confident that the iPad could replace all my needs for email, social networking and entertainment. In fact I’d already shifted many of these activities to my mobile …

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Categories Blogging Tags Apple, ipad Leave a comment

Fixing blank category and tag pages in Wordpress

December 30, 2015May 27, 2011 by Technology Poet
Fix Blank Pages in Wordpress

Ahh… sometimes the smallest things can prove to me the most frustrating. After fighting with high CPU usage on my Bitnami install I decided to give W3 Total Cache another try. I installed the plugin, set it up, tested a few pages and everything seemed to be working. Even a bit speedier (yah!). So I …

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Categories Wordpress Fixes and Tweaks Tags Wordpress 7 Comments

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