WordPress 5.8 was released on July 20. This is the second release of the year and it is chock-full of new features. The most notable update involves the continued roll-out for Full Site Editing within the Gutenberg editor. Some major highlights include: tons of new theme blocks like the Query Loop Block, the ability to…
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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 –…
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…