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Remove wp-admin Notifications Using Clarity Plugin
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Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Admin Notifications in wp-admin Using the Clarity Plugin

WordPress plugins do have a habit of adding admin notices and upsells that can be hard to dismiss and then they end up taking up much of the content space when in wp-admin. There is a new plugin that treats admin notifications in wp-admin like an ad blocker and it is called Clarity. Clarity Plugin Installation The Clarity plugin has no settings or configuration needed for it to work it will remove upsells and admin notifications from active plugins on the site from showing in wp-admin. The plugin currently supports the following plugins to remove admin notices and upsells; Yoast

Sebastian Moran February 23, 2022 No Comments
Complete Guide to Migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce
Tips & Tricks
Enola Nguyen

An Ultimate Guide: How to Migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce

Are you wondering how to migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce? And consider which method would be the ideal solution for your migration? Shopify and WooCommerce are two of the most popular eCommerce platforms for starting online stores. While Shopify may be the simplest way to create an eCommerce website, WooCommerce is an option to consider once your online business has grown to a specific size. Many Shopify users desire to switch to WooCommerce to save money and get more control over their online stores. However, switching eCommerce platforms can be a complex undertaking that can take weeks or even months

Enola Nguyen February 22, 2022 No Comments
Find Slow Admin Ajax Requests in WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Look for Slow Front-end admin-ajax.php Requests on Your Site

If you are focused on making sure that your site is loading as fast as possible it is important to watch for slow POST admin-ajax.php requests being made on your site. Two tools to use for testing the front-end performance of the site would be GTmetrix and WebPageTest. Looking in the tested sites waterfall for slow requests will show you if one of the active plugins on the site is using admin-ajax.php for a function. An example would be if you are using the PixelYourSite plugin, there is a setting if you are using the conversion API for the Meta

Sebastian Moran February 16, 2022 No Comments
Preconnect 3rd Party Domains
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Preconnect 3rd Party Domains on Your Site

When you are testing your site’s front-end performance using an online tool such as GTmetrix or WebPageTest you will notice the 3rd party domains that are being connected to on the site. One way to improve the front-end performance for site visitors is to set 3rd party domains to be preconnected by the visitor’s browser. Third-party domains that are worth setting as being preconnected to would be CDNs, Image CDN, Web font-s, Facebook Connect, Google Analytics, etc. Picking the most critical third-party domains should be the ones that you focus on first on your site. Two easy plugin methods to

Sebastian Moran February 9, 2022 No Comments
Database Optimization WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Additional Site Database Optimization Tips

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 to be able to delete unused tags is the Mass Delete Unused Tabs plugin. After you have installed and activated

Sebastian Moran February 3, 2022 No Comments
10 Tips to Scale Your Web Design Business
Tips & Tricks
Sujay Pawar

10 Proven Processes To Grow Web Design Business Exponentially

Web design is an in-demand service. With the world going online, every business wants to have a piece of digital real estate. However, there is always a challenge to grow web design business. At some point, you might see yourself stuck with a certain number of clients, and this may happen because of your limited time or limited resources. Creating processes is the best way to extract the most productivity from your time and satisfy as many clients as possible. Processes help you amp up your productivity, guaranteeing excellent outcomes and saving a lot of time and money. They are also

Sujay Pawar February 1, 2022 No Comments
Surge - A WordPress-Cache-Plugin-with-ZERO-Configurations
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Surge – A WordPress Cache Plugin with ZERO Configurations

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 static HTML cached version of your site could potentially improve the load times for visitors and reduce the Time to

Sebastian Moran January 26, 2022 No Comments
Useful Performance Improvements in WordPress 5.9
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Some Performance Improvements in WordPress 5.9

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 are using the block editor on your site, the block CSS will load per block that is used rather than

Sebastian Moran January 19, 2022 No Comments
Remove Unused CSS WordPress
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Unused CSS on Your WordPress Site

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 Booster Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster – WordPress plugin The Core Web Vitals & PageSpeed Booster is a new

Sebastian Moran January 13, 2022 1 Comment
How to Improve Facebook Pixel Load Times on Your Site
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Improve Facebook Pixel Load Times on Your Site

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 your site is to use the Flying Scripts plugin. After you have installed and activated the Flying Scripts plugin on

Sebastian Moran January 11, 2022 6 Comments

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