Keeping your WordPress site secure can feel like a full-time job. Between brute force attacks, vulnerable plugins, and shady themes, the threats are everywhere. That’s why we created The WordPress Security Workbook, a practical, action-oriented guide designed to help you lock down your site without the fluff. What’s inside: This isn’t theory, it’s a workbook you […]

You’ve migrated your WordPress site: new domain, new host, maybe HTTP to HTTPS. Everything looks fine. Then you start clicking. Images are missing. Buttons go nowhere. Your internal links are a maze of 404 errors. This happens because WordPress stores full URLs in posts, menus, widgets, custom fields, and page builders. When you move, those […]

A few weeks ago, Automattic released a new plugin in partnership with Archive.org, the famous “library of websites” (and much more). Named “Wayback Link Fixer”, this plugin helps you tackle a very common issue on websites, especially older and larger ones: link rot. Also known as link death or reference rot, link rot is the […]

Displaying estimated post reading time for your pages is a subtle form of courtesy to your readers. It gives them a useful information on the time they will spend reading the page, so they can eventually bookmark it if they don’t have the time to read it right away. Combined with a reading progress bar, […]

Caching plugins are an easy way to make your pages load faster without wasting time on complicated technical tasks, but they are also a primary source of headaches for developpers out there, as they often make their work more complicated. In some cases, the last resort solution is to exclude a give page from the […]

If you have been familiar with the WordPress community for more than a year, there is no way you haven’t heard about the whole WordPress drama that started with Matt Mullenweg taking shots at WP Engine at an event they sponsored. The situation escalated very quickly, with the Automattic CEO quicking long-time contributors from the […]

Depending on the size of the event, organization can quickly become overwhelming. Coordination, ticketing, marketing, media requests, speakers management,… tasks add up very quickly. An event website can play a role in every one of these tasks, but it’s not always appropriate. As you can guess, it’s worth taking some time to properly plan everything […]

Since 2015, with the version 4.2 of WordPress, emoji support has been integrated in our favorite open source CMS. However, not everyone enjoys the use of emojis, so it may be a good idea to remove it in that case and make small performance gains by removing a few requests. Let’s see how you can […]