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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

January 2022 WordPress Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

January 2022 WordPress Roundup, write a blog

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 is coming to Shopify We have big news: Yoast SEO is coming to Shopify! If you haven’t heard the news

MainWP Year in Review 2021
About
Dennis Dornon

MainWP Year in Review 2021 | 500k+ Sites, 2k+ Reviews, 97% Positive Support

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 than happy to help those by taking the hassle of managing hundreds of WordPress websites providing a FREE, open-source, self-hosted,

Nurturing a community that works for everyone
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Nurturing a community that works for everyone

Years ago, a friend was preaching a sermon about community and one thing that stood out to me was that community and communication come from the same word. It was one of those “light bulb” moments for me. I never forgot that. We often throw around community in our industry, but few think about what it takes to get there. Communication. It is the center of any community. Think about it. To have a community, there need to be conversations like we have in Slack or Circle rooms, etc. How many of those are you a part of? Communities come

WordPress New Features 2022
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

New Features in WordPress in 2022

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 will allow you to directly edit all parts of the site from templates to how the site looks. It will

2021 MainWP Year in Review Q&A Articles
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

The 2021 Year in Review: The Q&A articles edition

Today’s article is our second installment in our Year in Review at the MainWP blog. We had a lot of articles and several were Q&A, so I wanted to talk about those separately. So today, we will take a look at the Q&A articles for the year 2021 at MainWP. Q&A: Vito Peleg talks Web Agency Summit 2021 and new name In the last couple of years, we have had several virtual summits in the WordPress and website space. One of those is the Web Agency Summit by Atarim. We visited with Atarim founder Vito Peleg about the summit and

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Easily Removing the Bloat in WordPress

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 snippets repository. A number of code snippets are also posted on the MainWP community you can filter by tags to

Q&A with Santa claus
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Q&A with Santa – How he uses MainWP to manage his websites

Notice: This article is completely fiction. No part of this shall be considered true. Hopefully, you will find the Christmas Spirit so that Santa’s sleigh can fly this year. We have had many Q&A articles over the years here at MainWP, but this one is very special! Dennis noticed a testimonial from a guy named Kris a while back. We looked into it and it was actually Kris Kringle. Yes, THAT Kris Kringle! The one and only Santa Claus. After months of trying to get in touch with him, he finally answered our email and agreed to do a Q&A

Easily Delete Jetpack Options and Transients on Your Site
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Easily Delete Jetpack Options and Transients on Your Site

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 Jetpack options is as follows; jetpack_activated jetpack_activation_source jetpack_available_modules jetpack_connection_active_plugins jetpack_dismissed_connection_banner jetpack_options jetpack_private_options jetpack_sync_https_history_home_url jetpack_sync_https_history_site_url jetpack_tos_agreed Another plugin option to easily

2021 MainWP Blog Year in Review
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

2021 Year in review MainWP blog

It’s that time of year when we review the year we have had. I am sure you have been doing that already for your own business. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was invited to be in a WordPress Year in Review Live podcast. I had fun talking about what has happened and where we are going. What are some reasons we do a year in review? First, I often find I am surprised to learn some kind of pattern or trend that has happened. It can allow you to double down on the things that are working

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