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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
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Why you need to update WooCommerce and WooCommerce Blocks Plugins Now on Your Site

WooCommerce recently found a critical security issue that was reported that affects all versions of WooCommerce from branches 3.3 to 5.5. You may have already noticed an email with the subject line Action required: Critical vulnerability in WooCommerce that went out around 7pm EST. The most current version of WooCommerce is 5.5.1 but patched versions for branches 3.3 up to version 5.5 have also been released. WordPress.org has the ability to push out automatic plugin updates for security reasons so if you were running version 5.4.1 it would have automatically updated to version 5.4.2. Depending on which branch of WooCommerce

Sebastian Moran July 19, 2021 1 Comment
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Handy plugins for WooCommerce

WooCommerce is being used on more and more sites for adding e-commerce features to new sites or to existing sites. Knowing of solid plugins which add useful features is worth bookmarking and keeping track of those plugins for when that feature comes up in client request. We are going to cover three really handy plugins for WooCommerce the first is called WPC Fly Cart for WooCommerce. The plugin will add a flyout popup when a customer goes to add a product to the cart and breaks up the cart experience. If you are using the plugin on single product pages

Sebastian Moran April 7, 2021 No Comments
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Easy Lazy-loading Plugin Options for Your Sites

Lazy-loading site images are one of the easiest ways to improve the perceived site load times as well as improving the customers’ or users’ experience on the site. WordPress added a lazy-loading feature enabled by default in the 5.5 release. There are a number of solid plugin options for WordPress and those plugins include additional features like image optimization and free CDN integration. Optimole is a plugin and service that we have covered before but it does cover lazy-loading. The Lazy Loader plugin includes a number of lazy loading options for image and video assets on your site. After you

Sebastian Moran January 12, 2021 No Comments
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using the PhastPress Plugin to Improve Site Performance

If you are looking for a very lightweight plugin to help improve your site performance. The PhastPress plugin is worth taking the time to check out. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new sub-menu under settings in wp-admin; Settings > PhastPress The PhastPress plugin settings are broken down into plugin, Images and HTML, CSS and JS. The plugin includes image optimization using a free image optimization service API, being able to inline critical CSS, load all JS script asynchronously. You can also minify HTML, defer iframe loading by being able to lazy load them.

Sebastian Moran February 13, 2020 2 Comments
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Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Keep Your Child Site Secure

If you build and maintain sites for customers, site security is a top priority. WordPress moved to a two-week schedule for minor releases after WordPress 5.0 was released. Each WordPress minor release will include security fixes. These same security changes are backported to older versions of WordPress (e.g., in the case of the 4.9.X branch, the security release would be 4.9.10). You need to set a minimum version of WordPress that you will support on client sites, no later than two versions. It is easier to keep the child sites updated to the most current version, rather than running a

Sebastian Moran September 30, 2019 No Comments
New WooCommerce Plugins for Your Store
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

New WooCommerce Plugins for Your Store

WooCommerce allows customers to leave reviews on products, but the method used for storing those reviews is still comments, so those product reviews are stored in the comments and commentmeta database tables. There is a recent plugin which fixes product reviews, by sending reminder emails using the Action Scheduler, storing product views in their custom database tables. The plugin is called Better Reviews for WooCommerce. Created custom database tables; wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_attributes wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_authormeta wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_charstcs wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_content wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_ratings When the plugin is installed, it adds a reviews admin menu tab. Reviews > Reviews Reviews > Attributes Reviews > Characteristics The settings for the plugin

Sebastian Moran May 23, 2019 2 Comments
Tools
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

Three tools to help you defeat Thanos and save the universe

We are suckers for tools. I mean, we are always looking for weapons in our arsenal to help us fight against Thanos. Think about it. With a snap of his fingers, things disappear, even our Google search results! So, we have to stay on top of things. Today I’m going to point you to three new WordPress products that are launching soon. These are tools for your toolbox that may be super helpful. WPFeedback Feedback from clients is an area that is crucial to any website project. Developer Vito Peleg is in the process of launching WPFeedback which will streamline

Todd Jones April 26, 2019 No Comments
World of WordPress
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

World of WordPress: Staying productive when Facebook goes down

March is a crazy month. Wouldn’t you agree? For many of us, we are exciting Winter and headed straight for Spring. Who still has snow on the ground? The sun starts to shine a little more and the birds start to chirp. It’s almost like we have come out of a slumber. Regardless, there are lots of things happening. Today we take a look into some new WordPress products, the emergence of plugins for the Gutenberg Editor, how we became more productive on the day that Facebook went down, and where we can find more Women leaders in WordPress. Buckle

Todd Jones March 14, 2019 No Comments
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

How to display a draft using Public Post Preview Plugin

If you are like me, you like to look at WordPress plugins that can really help you out. Such is the case this week when I was introduced to a plugin by Kyle Van Deusen. Kyle was doing an article and needed my feedback for the post. He sent me over a Google Document where I could fill out my answers. A day later he showed me what the article looked like on his site. I thought for a minute and wondered how I was looking at a live preview of the not-yet-published article on WordPress without me being logged

Todd Jones July 13, 2018 No Comments

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