#site speed

This is a short tutorial where I’d like to show you how to make a search field in your plugin or theme using WP REST API. This search field includes nice autocomplete, but doesn’t use any jQuery as one might expect.

Inspired by Gijo’s Varghese post I devoted last weekend to replace jQuery with vanilla JavaScript in my own plugin, SpeedGuard. And I’m very happy I did. Share this post to inspire other developers to do so too!

It’s been a long time coming. I don’t need any specific level of security here on this blog, but I want it to be fast. I tried quite a few SSL certificates over the years, here and for clients’ sites, including ZeroSSL, RapidSSL, Comodo, Symantec, Let’s Encrypt of course, and some others which names I…

This post will help you to fix this issue for: existing imagesfor images that will be uploaded later onboth for mobile and for desktop for different pages on your website, not only for that one that you’ve tested in GTmetrix First, what does it mean?

!! Before anything: make sure you made a backup! Remove unused images attachments (orphaned images that are not attached to any WordPress post, page or custom post) When you delete your posts, attachments from them don’t get deleted automatically.

Just one Adsense block can significantly slow down your website if added incorrectly. When you’ve got a few blocks on the page the impact multiplies. From today you will have no excuses to let Adsense harm your website performance anymore.

I have been building networks of websites with WordPress Multisite since 2011, and improving WordPress performance since 2018. But believe me or not I had almost no experience of using WordPress as a visual editor, actually.

WordPress filters are so damn convenient and make devs’ life so much easier that rather often you can see developers forgetting to turn the thinking mode on before use it. I would lie if I tell personally I had never done this mistake before and that’s another reason for this post.