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Thoughts on Instant Loading in WordPress
If you are familiar with the instant loading concept, you’ll know it’s about faster subsequent page loads by prefetching [...]
How to Submit a Patch to WordPress Core Using TortoiseSVN and Windows 10 (for beginners)
Here’s my steps to submit a patch to WordPress code. The whole process of editing WordPress core and submitting a patch can be [...]
How to Create a Price Range Slider Using Vanilla JavaScript
All JavaScript range sliders are hacks or workarounds. Because there’s no native HTML element for a range slider (only a single value [...]
How to Create a JavaScript Typewriter Using Vanilla JavaScript
This was done for a client, and I do not recommend it as it uses setTimeout(). Anything using setTimeout() or setInterval() slows down the [...]
JSONify Dropdown Element Using Vanilla JavaScript
This function converts a regular <select> element both into an intented ul/li structure and JSON. It’s light and it’s been [...]
eCards, eCard Collections and the Block Editor
Hi, May I know how can I control the display order of the ecard thumbnails? I tried: 1. Drag and drop to change the order in media [...]
How to Detect Multiple Matterport URLs and Embed Them Automatically
Embedding a Matterport tour in a WordPress page proves to be a bit problematic using the regular link-to-oEmbed method. There’s [...]
The Ultimate Post-Launch Checklist for Your New WordPress Website
This article is a follow-up of our previous pre-launch checklist article. You will learn how to make your new WordPress website visible to [...]
The Ultimate Pre-Launch Pre-Flight Checklist for Your New WordPress Website
This article is split into 2 parts and we’ll assume you’re launching anything but a blog. You will learn how to switch off [...]
Big changes are coming to SpeedFactor: Less Lighthouse, more Performance API, new PRO plans, better free audits
It’s been pretty quiet on the update front for SpeedFactor in the past months. Mostly bug fixes and performance updates. That’s [...]
We’re Retiring the Site Uptime Check
Retiring this tool allows us to take on new product discovery work to understand how we can reveal even more powerful insights about your [...]
Drift Chat: Speed Up Your Page Loading Speed by 3-4 Seconds
Here’s a neat trick to speed up your initial page loading time when you are using Drift. If you use SpeedFactor or GTMetrix to [...]