Why defunct WordPress plugins pose a threat & how to secure your site
Let’s get one thing clear right away: WordPress as a freshly-installed CMS isn’t particularly vulnerable and remains a strong option if you want to create a secure site.
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How to use Advanced Custom Fields with WPML
With Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) users can easily add meta box(es) to a post, page, custom post type and even categories
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Lossy vs Lossless image compression
This blog will help you understand what kind of results and savings you can expect to achieve with ‘Lossy’ and ‘Lossless’ compression methods.
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How to make a WordPress site accessible for users with Colour Blindness
As part of Colour Blind Awareness Day 2018 I thought I would share my experiences. I first discovered I was colour blind at the age of 7 while in class at primary school, looking at a chalkboard and struggling to read the yellow writing. After this incident I went to have my eyes checked and sure enough, I was diagnosed as colour blind.
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The scheduler in my WordPress installation is not working – what should I do?
WordPress has a system for running scheduled tasks in the background. This does lots of useful things – things like clearing up internals (theent equivalent of taking out the garbage), checking for available updates, and performing actions that plugins want doing at a set time, or regularly (like optimizations!).
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3 Rock Solid Ways to Boost Your WordPress Blog Performance
You’ve created a wonderfully designed WordPress page. But as good as it may look and feel, if it’s sluggish and takes too long to load, you can kiss your conversions goodbye and say hello to higher bounce rates.
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The 5 things that can ruin your WordPress site
You want your WordPress website to be engaging and attractive. You want everyone who visits it to grasp what you’re trying to get across, and to come back for more.
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Always update Premium plugins whilst they are active
Here’s a quick tip that you may not be aware of, but can be important.
