Plugins are an essential part of any WordPress site. They add new functionality beyond the core WordPress features and allow you to customize your site to be exactly what you need. The WordPress plugin library is vast and contains plugins for most general needs, but it is sometimes necessary to build your own plugin. Plugins…
Author: Ryan Brooks
Easily Automate and Schedule Routine Tasks with CRON
Automation is a vital tool. It allows us to identify tasks that happen on a predictable schedule, define the process by which the tasks are done, and then remove ourselves from the burden of executing the tasks on that pre-defined and predictable schedule going forward. Automation is commonly associated with machines performing physical tasks, but…
Diagnose Your Site’s Core Web Vitals with Lighthouse
Site performance is the future. In the early days, building a website was all about seeing what the web could do. Catching the user’s eye was more important than being fast. Trying a cool new menu design sometimes took priority over actually navigating the menu. Everyone was learning and building and sharing what worked and…
Boost Your Core Web Vitals Score by Reducing Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) On Your Site
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is the measurement of unexpected movements on a page as new content loads. If you’ve ever visited a page and had what you were reading suddenly shift due to an image loading or a pop-up appearing, you’ve seen it in action. CLS is one of Google’s new Core Web Vitals –…