You’re not optimizing your site to please a stopwatch. You’re optimizing your site for real people. So how can you determine if you’re achieving your goal? You need to include metrics such as First Contentful Paint and First Meaningful Paint in your performance assessment in order to measure how your site is performing from your user’s perspective. Both will tell …
Where to Put Your Logo? What the Research Says
You’ve got a beautifully designed logo. Well done. Now, what do you do with it? Once your high quality logo is designed and ready to go, it should appear on all your branded material, including your WordPress website. Typically, there are three schools of thought as to where logos can go: in the top-left, top-middle, or top-right corners of a …
A Visual History of The WordPress Project – Closing in on Two Decades
May 27, 2023 will mark twenty years since WordPress officially launched. Its humble beginnings, a conversation sparked between Matt Mullenweg (an American developer) and Mike Little (a British developer), in a quiet corner of the internet. Its historical content nestled safely online, so you can see with your own eyes the very first stirrings of what would later become WordPress. …
How to Install XAMPP and WordPress on Windows Localhost
Once you’ve experienced speed and reliability, there’s no going back. Remember the era before high-speed internet, when you had to wait for videos to buffer? Awful times. Three cheers for the modern internet speeds! If you’re used to developing your sites on a live server, that’s exactly what shifting to a local development environment such as XAMPP would feel like. …
CDNs and Cloudflare in WordPress – A Definitive Guide
A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, is a system of globally distributed servers that deliver content on behalf of other servers. CDNs cache data from the origin server, allowing users to access the data from a server near them, thus improving performance and reducing latency. CDNs are an essential part of our modern world. The content that you view on …
How to Create and Sell Online Courses with WordPress
Learn to create online courses in WordPress quickly and easily with the help of some fantastic LMS (Learning Management Systems) plugins, as well as how to sell your courses, course examples, and more. Now is a good time if you’ve ever considered launching an online course. E-Learning is going from strength to strength (A billion dollar industry according to analysts), …
How To Properly Add jQuery Scripts To WordPress
WordPress has been in our lives for over 16 years, yet the method of adding scripts to themes and plugins still remains a mystery for many developers. In this article we finally put the confusion to rest. Since it’s one of the most commonly used Javascript libraries, today we’re discussing how to add simple jQuery scripts to your WordPress themes …
A Guide To Shared Hosting: What Are The Benefits and is it Right For You?
Shared hosting is a popular choice when it comes to hosting websites. This article examines everything you need to know to determine if shared hosting is right for you. We’ll take a look at what exactly shared hosting is, how it works, its advantages and disadvantages, and check out some shared hosting providers. You’ll learn all about the advantages — …
2021 Year-End Roadmap Roundup – The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!
If you’ve been waiting for us to spill the beans… your patience is about to pay off! We’re coming in hot with the latest, greatest, and best that’s yet to come from WPMU DEV’s world. It’s crazy that we’re just around the corner from 2022. Where did this year go? With the holiday season upon us, and the last page …
New Hummingbird Update Ushers In Unified Notifications, a New Wizard, and More!
Our well-loved page speed optimization suite just got even suite-er with a new version release! Hummingbird is here to make your holiday brighter. We’ve added a slew of new features and improvements, from a browser cache wizard (which automates the process), to a brand new Notifications dashboard widget―with all of your reports and notifiers combined. Keep reading to check out …








