Email deliverability. Email deliverability. In this post I’ll be talking about what email deliverability is, why it’s important for you, what affects email deliverability and improve your email deliverability. What is email deliverability? Email deliverability is essentially the probability of an email you send being received by the intended recipient. Although a lot of people […]
Web servers and document roots. In this post I’ll cover what web servers are what they do, a bit about how they work, and what document roots are. We’re not going to go in to anything too technical here, the purpose of this post is to again a conceptual understanding of how your site is
The Litespeed Web Server. The Litespeed web server. In this post I’ll be talking about what the Litespeed web server is, what it does, how it works, and why you might want to use Litespeed web server based hosting. There is a lot of documentation covering the Litespeed Web Server, but this is a bit
WordPress and Caching Plugins. WordPress and Caching Plugins. In this post I’l be talking about caching plugins, what their purpose is, how they work and the difference between different types of caching plugins. What is Caching? What is caching, and what does it do? Some of you might be thinking “caching makes things quicker”. Well
How a browser renders a web page. How does a browser turn page output in to a web page? In this post I’ll be talking about the process a browser goes through to turn page output in to a web page that you see and interact with. How a browser renders a web page is
WordPress and page builders. In this post I’ll be talking about WordPress and page builders. There are different options available to you with regard to which page builder you decide to use. Different page builders work in different ways, and whilst some are easier to use than others, there an be some implications with some
Installing a wordpress theme. This guide covers what themes are, what they do, and how you install a theme in WordPress. What is a wordpress theme? There are a LOT of themes available that can be installed in WordPress, about 31,000 of them at the time of writing. WordPress themes are pre-designed templates that dictate
Configure WordPress to Use SMTP authentication – a how to Guide. WordPress SMTP authentication. In this post I’ll be taking about how to set up your WordPress so that it uses SMTP to send emails, why you might want to do this, and the benefits of using SMTP authentication. Before you start reading this post,
How to Add a contact form to your wordpress site. Add a contact form to your WordPress. In this post I’ll be talking about how to add a contact form to your WordPress, why you’re likely to need a contact form, and the benefits of using a contact form on your site. I’d recommend reading
WordPress Optimisation Overview WordPress optimisation overview. In this post I’ll be talking about optimising wordpress, giving an overview of what optimising WordPress is, the skills that you’ll need to be able to do this, and some common concepts when it comes to WordPress optimisation. I’m not going to be going into specific detail in this
WordPress optimisation save yourself the hassle. WordPress optimisation is something I’ve written quite a lot about on this blog, and I’ve been doing some experiments to try and help save you the time and effort involved with optimising your WordPress site. In this post I’ll be covering what I’ve worked out, with the objective of
How to make Google fonts load locally. How to make Google Fonts load locally. In this post I’ll be discussing how to make Google Fonts load locally, why you might want to do this, and what the benefits you’ll gain by doing this. If you’d rather just find out the quick and easy way to
WordPress enable gzip compression. WordPress enable GZip compression. In this post I’ll be covering how to enable GZip compression, what this does, why you might want to enable GZip compression and the benefit of doing so. GZip compression is also referred to as text compression, so this post also covers how to enable text compression.
WordPress Serve images in next-gen formats WordPress serve images in next-gen formats. This post explains what this issue is, why it’s a problem, and what you need to do to address it. Compared to a lot of actions you’ll have to take when optimising your WordPress, this is one of the easier to address. What
WordPress Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy. WordPress Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy. What a cache policy is, how you define one, and the benefits you’ll see from doing so. What Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy means. Static assets are parts of your site that don’t change
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