MainWP Blog - Sebastian Moran

Removing bloat that is being stored in your site’s database can help improve your site’s performance and it is worth taking the time to make sure that you perform database optimization weekly or at least monthly. If you have added tags on your posts or on products in WooCommerce in the past, then chances are high that there are some tags that you do not use anymore but they are still part of your site’s database. An easy plugin option Continue reading the post...

Sometimes setting up a WordPress caching plugin becomes tricky. A WordPress core contributor, Konstantin Kovshenin, came up with an idea to create a simple caching plugin with ZERO configurations and named it, “Surge“. It got a lot of traction in just a few days because of its simplicity. The Surge plugin includes no settings and works out of the box as soon as it is activated and you do not have to worry about any complex setup. Serving out a 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...

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...

With WordPress 5.9 on track to be released on the 29th January 2022, it will bring with it Full Site Editing (FSE). In order to be able to use the full site editing feature in WordPress, you will need to be using a block-based theme. If you want to watch a preview of new features coming to WordPress then you should watch the State of the Word for 2022 from the 14th of December. Full Site Editing Full site editing Continue reading the post...

WordPress by default can enable a number of back-end and front-end features which can lead to performance issues but there are code snippet and plugin methods to easily remove the bloat. MainWP has an extension for being able to save and then run code snippets on all connected child sites. There are a vast number of code snippets that will allow you to remove front-end and back-end bloat in WordPress and a number of plugins on the MainWP GitHub code Continue reading the post...

Jetpack is a commonly used plugin on-sites the plugin will not remove all of its data when it is uninstalled. You can use a simple plugin that will delete two of the common option names in Jetpack. In order to delete the two main options for Jetpack, the plugin will need to be installed from the locally downloaded zip file and activated and it will delete the two options and then delete itself. jetpack_options Jetpack_private_options A complete list of the Continue reading the post...

The WooCommerce Stripe Gateway is a widely used plugin for adding Stripe integration to your WooCommerce store. A recent release in version 5.7.0 of the Stripe plugin would cause a number of Stripe-related assets requests and external Stripe requests to load on single product pages and cart pages on your site. This would cause product pages and the cart page of the site to be much slower due to the extra requests being loaded from Stripe on them. The express Continue reading the post...

Self-hosted support plugins are available for WordPress but a number can be limited. One of the newest support plugins that were launched is Fluent Support. The company behind the plugin WP Manage Ninja is also behind well-built plugins such as FluentCRM, Fluent Forms, WP Social Ninja, and Ninja Tables. To get going to setup the support portal setup you will need to create a support portal page and use the shortcode on it. The Portal page in Fluent Support uses Continue reading the post...