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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What is a back to top / scroll up button? On some websites you may see an arrow in the bottom left or right corner. When you click this, it…
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There are many, many ways to sell things from your WordPress site, from physical products to digital downloads or access to content. The best solution will depend on your particular circumstance and needs. While WordPress can get quite sophisticated in the ecommerce department, a lot of folks just want to be able to sell a few items quickly and easily using PayPal.
In scenarios like this where the user wants the simplest possible solution and knows they want to use PayPal, a fully featured shopping cart / ecommerce solution such as WooCommerce might be overkill. Sometimes simple PayPal buttons will suffice.
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I’ve updated this guide based on the recent changes to the PageSpeed tool.
Listen, let’s keep it real, PageSpeed Insights is a tool best used by developers. Its intentions are good but it’s not targeted at the average WordPress site owner. Even with the recent introduction of some WordPress-specific messaging, many aspects of the report are too technical to be clearly actionable.
In this guide I’ll try to translate what PageSpeed is talking about and let you know which factors you can control, as a WordPress site owner, and which you can’t.
The basic message of PageSpeed Insights could be translated as follows:
Measuring the loading time of your WordPress site is a critical step in optimizing for speed. You have to know how your site is performing to understand where the bottlenecks are and to measure the impact of optimizations you’re making, or the content you add to your site. There are numerous tools available for measuring the performance of your site, each of them providing a different result, which is understandably confusing. Which one is “right”?
So which speed testing tool should you use? The real answer is that it depends on what you want to measure
in how much detail you want to measure it.
Choosing the right WordPress theme is one of the hardest parts of setting up your site. The plethora of choices makes it harder, not easier, as most people are paralyzed by the options.
Not only that, but it’s like the Wild West out there, with all kinds of cowboys claiming they’ve got the best theme to beat all themes. Who can you believe?!
Here is a selection of trusted theme shops to choose from.
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How To Make Your WordPress Site Conversion Friendly: Part 2 - Effective WordPress Sidebars Sidebars are one of the best places to put your calls to action. Widgets make your life…
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Swiftype is a new plugin on the block. It is designed as a replacement for the in-built search feature on your WordPress site. The main thing that's cool about it…
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I consider myself creatively impaired when it comes to visual design. I know generally what I like and what I think works, but I'm not good at actually creating it…
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