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Thursday, July 7, 2022

How To Update Your WordPress Plugin From GitHub in 2020

I have coded three of these before, but I have finally coded and optimized the perfect one. A GitHub plugin…

Thursday, July 7, 2022

How to Upgrade Your GitHub API Authentication

If you’ve been getting lots of email notices when using GitHub API calls related to: Deprecation notice for authentication via…

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Work-From-Home Office Setup Inspiration for Coders & Developers

Minimalistic or grandiose? Or cluttered? What’s your preference when working from home? As most of us have been forced to…

Thursday, June 23, 2022

How to Work Remotely: Practical Tips

😎 These tips are obviously biased and focused on developers. Home Office Designate a room as your office. This helps…

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

How Not to Get Affected by Google Algorythm Updates

It’s common sense. I’ve heard a lot of complaining from SEOs who have sites that have plummeted over the past…

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Journey Continues

Note: SpeedFactor has been merged into WordPress Lighthouse. I’m proud to say that in the past year I’ve merged lots…

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

How Many Assets Should a Website Have?

How Many JavaScript Files Should a Website Have? A maximum of four. And I would still argue that is too…

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Why Is Web Page Size Important?

As of 2021, web page size is the most important factor to measure, as the bigger a page is, the…

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Plugins Slow Down Your WordPress Site

“There’s a plugin for that” is a long-time notion in the global WordPress community. It’s a very positive example of…

Thursday, March 3, 2022

10 PHP functions and code snippets to work with dates

Get current time, formatted This is a super basic function, takes no parameters and returns the current date. Format a…

Friday, January 10, 2020

SpeedFactor Summary: January 10, 2020

This update is related more to the account admin than to actual SpeedFactor features. I have implemented PayPal and tweaked…

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

How to Improve DNS Lookup Time

There are two major issues when it comes to DNS lookup times: 1. Number of external requests A complex website…