Create Fast-Loading Custom Image Sizes for Your WordPress Theme

By default, WordPress automatically takes images uploaded to the media library and generates additional sizes of your image: thumbnail, medium, and large, with the option to add custom sizes. While you can edit those sizes in Settings->Media, as you develop your theme, you’ll surely create components that utilize images at specific sizes. The sizes of…

8 Form Filtering Techniques to Reduce Spam Entries

Nobody likes spam. It is obnoxious, annoying, and a waste of time. Unfortunately, anyone with a website that contains a form has had to deal with it at some point. It doesn’t matter what the form is for—lead generation, customer service or a simple newsletter signup—there will always be spam submissions. In this post we…

How A Web Cache Speeds Up Your Site

You might have noticed after you visit a webpage, the subsequent page visits are faster than the first. This is largely due to caching, a technology that either stores data on the user’s machine or the server so information can be accessed faster in the future. What Is a Web Cache? Web caching is a…