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Our blog deals with page speed optimization, page loading, web performance, WordPress tutorials, PHP code wrangling, JavaScript tutorials and code snippets. Our web insights series allow designers and developers to discover the latest and most significant stories on the web, while sipping a hot coffee.

Friday, May 20, 2022

WordPress “Plugin Manager” Hack

Here’s another hack that targets WordPress admin users using brute force password cracking. In other words, if your WordPress administration…

Friday, May 3, 2024

WordPress WSO Web Shell Hack

I have recently found a nasty hack inside one of my clients’ sites, based on WordPress. Turned out that the…

Friday, May 20, 2022

Keep your sites flying with SpeedFactor performance insights

Your hosting platform makes your site fly! But even with an amazing host, front-end details, images, scripts, can often slow…

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Beta Feature: Article Reactions 🤨

🤨 Starting today, we have a new feature, currently in beta: article reactions. Basically, if you like a post or…

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Google reCAPTCHA v3 using PHP, AJAX and WordPress

After having issues with Google reCAPTCHA v2 and a custom WordPress implementation, I started coding an optimized version using the…

Monday, June 24, 2024

11 Places to Find Beautiful Free Illustrations

2020 saw the rise of this trend with countless sites, SaaS websites, startup websites and design sites adding illustrations to…

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

How to update your BreadcrumbList schema

If you're getting warnings when checking for breadcrumbs rich results or via your Google Search Console, here's what you need…

Thursday, June 23, 2022

How I Planned, Blocked Out and Built a SaaS from Scratch Using WordPress

This is the story of SpeedFactor, a speed and performance tracking SaaS. At its core, the app measures a bunch…

Friday, June 26, 2020

WordPress eCards Update (2020)

It’s been almost a year since the eCards plugin received an update. The plugin has been working properly, even with…

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Thin UI Update: Pure CSS Popover to Replace JavaScript One

I had some nice popovers coded for SpeedFactor, but I wasn't happy with the performance, especially for a single element…

Monday, June 24, 2024

Google Lighthouse 6 Performance Score Weighting: A Complete Guide

Google Lighthouse 6 just landed and it measures eight performance-related metrics in the Performance Section of the report with the…

Thursday, June 11, 2020

SpeedFactor Roadmap

During the initial development of SpeedFactor, there were lots of features to consider and there was no proper roadmap as…