MainWP Blog - 2022

I know it has happened to you before. You are updating your websites and that plugin causes a problem. Again. How many times has that happened? Maybe you are having some kind of conflict. It happens more than we want to think. Every week, you are taking care of your customer’s websites and something always seems to happen. You think to yourself, “I wish I had a staging site set up to test some of these plugin updates.” Never fear Continue reading the post...

I wanted to do a web care survey for a very long time. I haven’t seen that anyone has done one in a while, so I thought 2021 was the right time to do the survey. I got feedback from some fellow web care consultants on questions to ask. I made some mistakes that I will correct if there is another web care survey this year. One mistake I made was with the question of what consultants charge. I should Continue reading the post...

The WordPress 5.9 is going to be released on the 25th of January. With this release comes a number of performance improvements for your site. Improved Lazy Loading The lazy loading feature in WordPress core which was added in version 5.5 has been enhanced in the WordPress 5.9 release. The first content images and the iframe will not be lazy-loaded and skipped, this will improve the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) performance on your site. Improved Block CSS Loading If you Continue reading the post...

Davinder Singh Kainth launched in  The WP Weekly in July 2020. It quickly picked up steam as there were few newsletters like this one. The newsletter was published online but sent in an email with action-packed, quick-hitting tidbits of info and news. Since then Kainth has published over 75 issues of one of the most popular WordPress newsletters. Late in 2021, Davinder got the idea to host awards in the WordPress spaced based on votes by the community. He launched Continue reading the post...

When you are auditing your WordPress website speed with the performance audit tools such as Lighthouse or GTmetrix, one of the most challenging recommendations that will show is to remove unused CSS that is being loaded on your WordPress site. There are several WordPress plugins that claim to remove unused CSS but many fail. Here are the two easy plugins to be able to remove unused CSS that is loading on your WordPress website. 1. Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Continue reading the post...

When you are using the Facebook Pixel for tracking how effective the Facebook advertising campaign that might be running for your site the request can slow down the load time of your site. In the case of the Facebook Pixel tracking code, it can add almost up to a second on the site’s load time when you are testing the site using site load testing like GTmetrix or WebPageTest. The simplest way to improve the Facebook Pixel load times on Continue reading the post...

January is the time when people like to, you know, write their year in review and stuff. I’ve seen a few along the way and I’m sure you have too. If you like that sort of thing, we have three at MainWP. I wrote two last year from the blog and Dennis had a nice yearly report for MainWP. So, for the first article of 2022, at least by me, we will have our January Roundup. Ready? Let’s ride. Yoast Continue reading the post...

In 2020, many businesses struggled to survive, so many of us looked around and questions arose of what the world would be like in upcoming years. However, 2021 was also a tough year for businesses to accept the Digital-first reality. According to W3Techs, WordPress now powers more than 65% of the entire Content Management Market Share opening more opportunities for Developers, Freelancers, and Agencies to dive into website management and start offering Website Care Plans. We, at MainWP, are more Continue reading the post...