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WordPress sites can be complex beasts to optimize on the front end so that they are fast to load and responsive. Many excellent website testing sites can help you test the current front-end loading speeds and retest the site after optimization. Website speed is critical to user experience, search engine optimization (SEO), and overall business success. A slow-loading website can frustrate visitors, increase bounce rates, and even hurt your search rankings. Regularly monitoring and testing your site’s performance is essential Continue reading the post...

Like it or not, most of us are exposed to or interact with AI tools almost daily. We may interact with an AI chatbot on a website, ask ChatGPT whether cats can eat pancakes, use Fathom to help us take notes during meetings, use Gemini to help us respond to emails, or even have AI analyze our X-rays. While AI can certainly be a very helpful tool, it is not without its risks. As AI becomes more and more integrated Continue reading the post...

Spam can be a persistent issue for WordPress site owners, clogging comment sections, slowing down your website, and even posing security risks. Whether it’s comment spam, fake user registrations, or spammy backlinks, taking proactive measures to remove and prevent spam is essential for maintaining a clean and secure website. 1. Identify the Spam Problem Before removing spam, you need to determine where it’s coming from. Familiar sources of spam on a WordPress site include: Comment Spam – Bots and human Continue reading the post...

WordPress 6.8 is the final major release of 2025. Over the course of 2025, new features and improvements will go out in minor WordPress core releases. One site performance feature that the 6.8 release includes is for speculative loading using the speculation rules API. The speculative loading feature has outstanding cross-browser support, and using the feature will help improve the front-end performance in most cases. The following code snippet excludes a specific URL in this case, the cart URL from Continue reading the post...

When running a WooCommerce store on WordPress, performance optimization is key to ensuring a smooth and efficient user experience. One often overlooked performance-related issue arises from how WooCommerce handles related products—specifically, the automatic deletion and regeneration of related products transients. While transients are usually a helpful part of WordPress’s caching strategy, in this case, their frequent deletion can bog down your site. Here’s why you might want to disable this deletion and how doing so can reduce performance issues. What Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce is a commonly used e-commerce plugin for WordPress, but if you offer virtual and downloadable products on your site, you may encounter issues with the order status not being set correctly. The WooCommerce plugin provides many filters, actions, and hooks that allow you to force order status on orders containing virtual and downloadable products. If the default setting of the order status is completed for those types of products, you can use this code snippet. If you need to Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce is a powerful eCommerce solution for WordPress, offering various features and design elements to enhance online stores. One of these features is the WooCommerce Blocks plugin, which provides customizable blocks for product displays, checkout pages, and more. However, the WooCommerce Blocks stylesheet (wc-blocks-style.css) is automatically loaded on all pages, even those that don’t utilize WooCommerce blocks. This can lead to performance issues, unnecessary resource loading, and conflicts with custom styling set in the active theme. If you’re wondering whether Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce Analytics provides vital insights into sales trends, customer behaviors, and product performance. However, clearing the cache can help ensure the latest information is displayed if the data seems outdated or inaccurate. Here’s a step-by-step guide to clearing the WooCommerce Analytics cache. Why Clear the Cache in WooCommerce Analytics? Caching is used to speed up data retrieval and reduce server load. However, outdated or incorrect data may be displayed due to: Stale or incomplete analytics reports Changes in orders, products, Continue reading the post...

Jetpack Boost is a WordPress plugin that helps improve your website’s speed and Core Web Vitals with minimal setup. It offers three key performance features: critical CSS generation for faster loading of above-the-fold content, deferred loading of non-essential JavaScript to reduce render blocking, and lazy image loading to minimize page load time. Designed for ease of use, Jetpack Boost enables one-click optimizations that are suitable for both beginners and advanced users. By streamlining how content loads, it enhances user experience Continue reading the post...

As a privacy attorney, I wish that I had a dollar for every time someone told me that they are fully compliant with all privacy laws because they have a GDPR compliant Privacy Policy, they provide GDPR privacy rights to everyone, or they ensure that their employees follow the GDPR rules for processing personal data. Since GDPR is one of the strictest privacy laws out there, many business owners assume that if they are compliant with GDPR, they will automatically Continue reading the post...