The PageSpeed recommendation to "avoid an excessive DOM size" is a tricky one for WordPress site owners. There isn't a plugin that can magically fix this for you. You, the…
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When things aren't working as expected on your site, or you get an error notification from WordPress, you will need to check the error logs for your site. WordPress runs…
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The concept of attached and unattached images seems to be a throwback to a time long gone when WordPress relied on these relationships between images and posts for some features…
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The default text on the WordPress comment form is: "Leave a Reply." In this guide you'll learn a few different ways to modify that text. If you want to remove…
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If you're tired of spam, or just find that comments are not appropriate for your site, you may want to disable this WordPress feature entirely. If you are trying to…
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Comments can easily build up on a WordPress site, especially if you don't have any anti-spam measures in place. It seems easy enough to get rid of them all, there…
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In previous versions of WordPress you could justify text easily with a button. But, the Justify button was removed from the WordPress classic editor and never included in Gutenberg. There's…
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If you write long tutorials and guides, a table of contents can help your readers more easily navigate, get a sense of the content that’s coming, and find what they are looking for.
Here are a couple of plugins I like for adding a table of contents to posts.
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If you are using Google PageSpeed Insights to test your site, you’ll see this “avoid enormous network payloads” warning if the total size of your page is more than 1.6MB.
It sounds technical, but this is actually one of the recommendations that you as the site owner have the most control over. Unlike some PageSpeed recommendations, you can fix this one!
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Backing up your WordPress site is a necessity, but it can be hard to find an affordable, easy-to-implement solution that covers all the bases. There are a lot of possibilities out there, but the following have served me well over the years. I usually only have to use them on shared hosting plans. Some of my sites are on managed WordPress hosts who take care of backups as part of the plan.
In this guide I’ll show you how to set up either the BackWPUp plugin, or UpdraftPlus, to back up your site to Dropbox for free.
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