I’ve been playing with the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, as I like to run the most recent theme release on WordPress, in order to demonstrate how those running a default setup can still have very performant websites. The theme will be shipping with WordPress version 5.9, and will be a huge leap forwards for Gutenberg editor,… Continue reading Twenty Twenty Two-Theme Performance Issues
Tag: WordPress
WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world (by far – over 60% of all sites which use any CMS use WP) which is installed on over 32% of the top 10 million websites.
In other words, WordPress is the absolute market leader in terms of publishing and promoting content on the web.
In this website, WP and WooCommerce expert, Robin Scott posts about Open Source, WordPress, and related subjects.
Subject to limited availability, you may also find out more about hiring Robin as a WordPress developer and a WordPress consultant for your next business project.
Thoughts on WordPress Governance, as Governance Project Retires
A couple of years ago — though the ways in which the world has altered in the interim, can make this feel like a couple of decades — I posted a short note about something called the WordPress Governance Project. At the end of this week, the official Slack channel for the project will be… Continue reading Thoughts on WordPress Governance, as Governance Project Retires
How to Fix Elementor Data Updater Bug
I had a client experiencing a long standing issue with Elementor and Elementor Pro where they would always show an update notification in the top of their site, which could never be cleared. Specifically, they’d see a notification which read: Elementor Data Updater Database update process is running in the background. Taking a while? Click… Continue reading How to Fix Elementor Data Updater Bug
Better, You Deserve
Yoda would say it as above, but it is very much true that you deserve better.
Now Running WordPress with PHP 8
Just a short one, today, to announce with much fanfare that this here website is running on PHP 8.0, which was released a short while ago. A pain free upgrade. Your mileage will vary – lots of breaking changes happened in PHP 8.0, but over here, I keep things nice and light.
WordPress is now 40% of the web
… and WooCommerce, if it were a stand-alone CMS (and not a part of WordPress) would be the second fastest growing CMS in the world, each month, for the past three months. WordPress – the Open Source flagship Content Management System continues to flourish. It doesn’t seem a moment ago that WP accounted for 30%… Continue reading WordPress is now 40% of the web
Mitigating High TTFB With Cloudflare
Since I made a post a number of years ago, half-jokingly referring to this, my personal blog, as the fastest website in the world, I’ve obviously invited an amount of scrutiny onto the performance of my own pages. I use this site to test bleeding edge things that clients – frankly – wouldn’t want to… Continue reading Mitigating High TTFB With Cloudflare
Dark Mode Initiated
This website is now dark mode by default. Not because of any particular reason, other than because I wanted to put a change in place… If you are looking at this in dark mode, leave a comment below, or ping me on Slack and say something fun! I’ve also been doing some performance enhancements… to… Continue reading Dark Mode Initiated
AMP Stories are now Web Stories… and they’re pretty cool
I know, right. I don’t say things like “pretty cool” but AMP stories are now called Web Stories, have a WordPress plugin, are officially supported by Google, and feature a simple drag-and-drop interface to allow you to create mobile friendly content which looks like this:
Best WP Engine Alternatives
I quite like WP Engine as a host for WordPress sites, but they don’t suit all cases, all the time.