Generate Faster loading dynamic sites using Web Components.
To make a web site load faster, Cache, Cache, Cache ! and that’s where you are wrong ! There are many situations where standard caching simply won’t work and that is where web components come to save the day. Web.dev is the latest standard dictated by Google and it states that a Google website should load under 2.5 seconds. So, the big question now is how do we improve page load speed. Now, let’s be honest a lot of website …
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Why Gutenberg is better than Elementor / Divi / Beaver ?
Gutenberg is WordPress’s most favoured feature in the upcoming 5.8 update of WordPress. Auttomatic (WordPress team) has been working on it for past 4 years and despite negligible support from WordPress community WordPress keeps on pushing it. Gutenberg has got to be the most dreaded plugin on WordPress repository with a mere 2 Star rating with 300k active users. So, why the hell would anyone stop using Elementor / Divi / Beaver / Oxygen builder and switch to Gutenberg. There …
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Introducing “VibeBP” framework for BuddyPress
Today a common notion among WordPress users is to not use BuddyPress as it makes their sites slow and to be honest it is an undeniable fact. However, I can also guarantee that today “any” plugin or theme with membership capabilities same features set will suffer from same deficiencies. Do not take my word, you can just checkout reviews : There is nothing wrong in how these plugins are coded each one has their own fantastic approach. It is more …
Read MoreWhy use SVG & WebP images in WordPress ?
Scalable Vector graphics aka SVG’s have been around the web for quite some time. There is no denying that they are the best form of image because they are scalable and you can implement logic inside them. Let’s see why you should consider SVG & WebP for images, JPEG,PNG is good, the new formats are changing the web. Unfortunately, both are not supported in WordPress. Let’s see why. I did a small experiment to check if SVG’s are actually useful …
Read MoreWhy you should disable Akismet for BBPress?
This post is one of those lessons we learn the hard way. That is by committing a mistake and realising that we were wrong all along. Akismet is the most popular anti-spam plugin for WordPress. It has a paid pricing plan as well. Since it is owned by Automatic (the company which runs WordPress), the trust factor is really high and it is one of those plugins which I install blindly on any WordPress site. We run an extremely popular …
Read MoreHow to display all features in JetPack plugin
Although Jetpack is an amazing plugin with a huge list of features categorised into categories, sometimes it is very time consuming to find a particular feature in JetPack’s standard set of categories. Sometimes you just can not find the feature that you’re looking for. You may also want to check what new feature has been added but that again it not visible in the above layout. You can follow these steps to get the full list of JetPack plugins. I …
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Fixing pending comments issue
WordPress comments are very reliable and it is very rare that you’ll ever see this issue on your site. But just like with all technology, things sometimes fail and then you need to debug and correct them. I searched internet and found nothing. Hopefully, some of you will find this post useful. So, one day all of a sudden I find that I have 24 pending comments in my WordPress admin dashboard comments panel and when I click on pending …
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Responsive design no longer requires BootStrap.
The most popular CSS framework "the Bootstrap project" started by twitter developers is now obsolete. It is time to move to CSS grids and flexbox. The use of CSS frameworks in design gained momentum when browsers started supporting CSS @media breakpoints which is the anchor of responsive design. Things started changing when you had to optimise your site for different screen-sizes of mobiles, tablets, laptops and it was just not enough. If you were running client projects then you would …
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