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Every month we go looking for tools that might be helpful to Web Care Consultants. In today’s toolbox, we look at a WP Site Audit tool, a Block Theme Generator, a plugin to protect your videos and a new block from Kadence Blocks. Get ready to add new tools to your toolbox! Get ready WP Audit Site Sometimes I don’t think we give QA (Quality Assurance) enough credit. It is extremely tempting to get a project launched and onto the Continue reading the post...

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 Continue reading the post...

Every time I have helped a business with their WordPress website, I have seen tons of problems with their website, security vulnerabilities, and more. Every. Single. Time. There has never been a better time to be in the WordPress Web Care business. Many businesses don’t know what they need to know. Sure, some are going to want to DIY things, but they often run into major roadblocks. Don’t burn that bridge. Let them know how you work when the time Continue reading the post...

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 Continue reading the post...

February is the month of love, hearts, and valentines, but for me, it is mostly just cold. As I write this our ground is covered with sleet. Yuck. And it’s cold. February in 2021 brought us the biggest snow total in one week I’ve ever seen. But in the world of WordPress, it is anything but cold, it’s red hot. WordPress 5.9 was released in January 2022. This was a major event and with it comes access to Full Site Continue reading the post...

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...

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 Continue reading the post...

Last week, we published the results of the Web Care Survey. It was fun to see how web care consultants run their businesses. One thing I noticed was the lack of use of content marketing and email newsletters. I’m not saying that you should use these channels, but I know consultants who get new business from these two channels for their business. 42% of consultants say they do not write a consistent blog. Only 10.7% say they do. The rest 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...

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...