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Making WordPress sites load faster.
WordPress Tutorials
Every upload becomes several files on disk and a post in the database. Once a library reaches a few thousand items, the decisions you did not make at the start start costing you.
WordPress Tutorials
A landing page is a page with one job and everything else removed. On WordPress that means a template with no navigation, one call to action, and a measurement plan you set up before you launch it.
Website Tools
Putting a proxy in front of WordPress solves real problems and introduces a specific set of new ones — redirect loops, mixed content, cached logged-in pages and a visitor IP that is no longer the visitor.
Themes
A photography theme has one job: deliver large images fast and without mangling them. Most fail on the same three points — the crop, the compression, and where the gallery data lives.
Themes
Screenshots tell you nothing. What decides whether a theme is a good one is how it behaves on a phone, what it weighs, how it is maintained, and how much of your content it holds hostage.
Website Building
A one-page site is a design decision with SEO consequences. It works beautifully for a single offer and badly for anything that needs to rank for more than one thing.
Plugins
Every builder can drag a column onto a page. The differences that matter are what they do to your markup, what happens to your content when you stop paying, and whether the block editor was already enough.
Plugins
Every popup plugin can show a box with an email field. The differences that matter are targeting rules, what the script costs on mobile, and whether the plugin respects the intrusive-interstitial rules that affect rankings.
Website Building
Membership is three separate problems: recurring payment, access control and member communication. Decide how each one works before choosing a plugin, because the plugin choice is hard to reverse.
WordPress Tutorials
By default, every avatar on your site is fetched from a third-party service using a hash of the person's email address. That is a design decision worth making deliberately rather than inheriting.
WordPress Tutorials
Pasting the ad code is the easy part. Ads are the most reliable way to destroy a blog's layout stability, and the damage is done by placement decisions, not by the snippet.
WordPress Tutorials
WordPress will happily let you upload a video to your media library. Almost nobody should, and the reasons have nothing to do with disk space.