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Preconnect 3rd Party Domains
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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
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Sebastian Moran

Using the FluentSMTP Plugin for Reliable Site Emails

Having reliable site emails is something that can be a major pain to deal with. Luckily there is a new plugin from the makers of FluentCRM and FluentForms. The new plugin is called FluentSMTP and using the plugin will fix the issue of having reliable site emails. After installing and activating the FluentSMTP plugin it will add a new sub-menu item; Settings > FluentSMTP FluentSMTP includes integrations with a wide range of transactional email providers such as SendGrid, Sendinblue, SparkPost, Mailgun, Amazon SES, or Pepipost. The FluentSMTP plugin includes a wide range of features such as email routing and email

Sebastian Moran January 21, 2021 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

Using the Kadence Theme and Kadence Blocks Plugin on Your Site

Clean theme options are really useful when you dealing with changing a theme on an existing site or using a clean theme for a new site build for a client. One of the more recent clean themes is Kadence. The free version of the Kadence theme includes a huge range of features, whilst the premium version addon for the Kadence theme expands on those features with even more options. Some of the Kadence Pro addon features include header addon, hooked elements, ultimate menu, fixed elements, header/footer scripts as well as WooCommerce addon. Kadence features can all be controlled using the

Sebastian Moran January 18, 2021 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

Using the Powered Cache plugin to Improve your Child Sites Load Times

Powered Cache is an easy to use plugin which contains a number of useful features in the free version and includes a number of extensions in the premium version of the plugin. After you have installed and activated the plugin on your child site it will add a new admin menu on your site named; Powered Cache In order to have page caching work using the Powered Cache plugin, you will need to go into the basic options settings and then enable it. You can set if you want Gzip compression to be enabled in the sites .htaccess file as

Sebastian Moran April 23, 2020 No Comments
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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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Sebastian Moran

Disable the MainWP Child plugin from Showing the Site Health Info

The site health check feature is a new feature in WordPress 5.2. If you have the MainWP child plugin already hidden from the list of plugins on the child site using the branding extension for MainWP, you may also want to hide the MainWP child plugin from showing on the info tab of the Site Health page. There is now an easy way to hide themes and plugins from showing in the site health info tab, using the Site Health Manager plugin. First, you will need to install and activate the Site Health Manager plugin on all the connected child

Sebastian Moran January 16, 2020 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

Logging Site Email Using the WP Mail Log Plugin

If you need to log site emails but require more control over what data is being logged and how long that data is being stored, WP Mail Logging is a solid plugin that can be installed. After you have installed and activated the plugin, it will add a new admin menu called; WP Mail Logging To view logged email, you can view those from; WP Mail Logging > WP Mail Logging The plugin setting can be found from; WP Mail Logging > Settings > General Settings By default, on plugin deactivation and uninstall, the data will not be removed from

Sebastian Moran November 14, 2019 No Comments
How to Disable the Site Health Page on Child Sites
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How to Disable the Site Health Page on Child Sites

In version 5.2 of WordPress, the site health check was added. It allows users to gain information about possible issues, and how to create a debug set of information. In a number of cases, you may want to remove the site health check page from being accessible on a child site, to ensure clients do not have to deal with being misled about issues. It is possible to remove the Site Health check page in wp-admin from showing on a child site. Normally, it would show from; Tools > Site Health The first way to remove the site health check

Sebastian Moran September 16, 2019 1 Comment
Using the Site Health Tools Manager Plugin
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Sebastian Moran

Using the Site Health Tools Manager Plugin

WordPress 5.2 introduced the new Site Health feature for checking the health of a site. There is already a plugin to remove the Site Health feature from WordPress core in version 5.2. It is already possible to set which of the Site Health tests you would like to enable on a site using the Site Health Tool Manager plugin. Site Health Settings You can deselect which tests you do not want to run in the site health checker. The MainWP Bulk Setting extension work with the Site Health Tool Manager plugin, which means you can globally set which tests you

Sebastian Moran June 17, 2019 No Comments
Enable Varnish on a Cloudways Hosted Child Site for WooCommerce
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Sebastian Moran

How to enable Varnish on a Cloudways Hosted Child Site for WooCommerce

Varnish is a fast server-side web application accelerator. A number of Managed WordPress and other hosts already have Varnish installed and make it easy to enable on your child sites. In this example, we are going to show how easy it is using Cloudways for enabling Varnish on your child site (which is using WooCommerce), then for setting the correct rules for Varnish all through an easy-to-use UI. First, login to Cloudways and then select the server which your child site is running on. Apps > Application Settings > General Settings By default, Varnish will not be enabled and you

Sebastian Moran May 16, 2019 No Comments

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