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Will HTTP/2 Make Your WordPress Site Faster?

Will HTTP/2 Make Your WordPress Site Faster?

Without boring the pants off you, HTTP/2 is an updated and more efficient way of delivering web site components from server to browser. There are 3 conditions:

  • Browsers have to support it – most of them do now.
  • Servers have to support it. Many do, ask your host about it. If they don’t, using Cloudflare will enable HTTP/2
  • Your site has to use HTTPS

Now that it’s becoming increasingly widespread, most articles on the topic make sweeping promises of faster performance, “just like that”, simply by enabling it. But there are fewer articles which actually back up these claims with test results.

I recently converted a couple of sites from HTTP to HTTPS and decided to take the opportunity to see what difference, if any, enabling HTTP/2 made.

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Show Custom Text On A Password Protected WordPress Page/Post

Show Custom Text on a Password Protected WordPress Page/Post

Password protection of posts and pages in WordPress is a nice feature, but can be a little limited. Here’s one way you can expand on it – by showing some custom content on a password protected page. Using a custom field and a little code, you can create a custom excerpt for each piece of protected content.

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Code Snippets To Customize Jetpack

Code Snippets To Customize Jetpack

Automattic’s Jetpack plugin has come a long way! It’s been much-maligned in the past for being bloated and slow and for that reason many developers wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot keyboard. These days it’s much better – it’s more truly modularized to give you more control over exactly what’s activated. From the code side of things, developers will be pleasantly surprised to discover that it has been sprinkled with lots of actions and filters. So, while Jetpack is still generally marketed to entry-level end users, there are actually some nice Easter eggs for developers who want to customize things a little bit for their clients.

This article provides some code snippets and examples of a few ways to customize Jetpack modules.

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