Use SVG Icons To Speed Up Your Website
Speed up your website load time by only using the SVG icons that you need rather than downloading a full font file.
WordPress
Articles about configuring, running and optimizing WordPress.
How To Choose The Perfect WordPress 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.
Discover This Hidden WordPress Performance Gem
A little known plugin that can dramatically improve the performance of your WordPress website.
Speed Up Image Load On Responsive Websites
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.
Quitting the WP Engine Habit for Good
There are much better Wordpress hosts out there, here’s a story of finding an amazingly fast Wordpress host.
Leaving WP Engine for the First Time
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 …
How to make your website faster and more secure in 15 mins (spoiler: Cloudflare)
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.
Fix broken Facebook sharing – Jetpack only shows the post title in og:description
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.
The Essential Guide to Blogging on the 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 …
Fixing blank category and tag 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 …