How to Set Up the Autoptimize Plugin For WordPress

The Autoptimize plugin for WordPress is a page speed tool. It combines code minification and aggregation with caching, CDN, and other optimization features. With a WordPress site, as with any dynamic site, optimizing performance involves a lot of moving parts. For those who are not comfortable tweaking settings at the server level, this plugin can Read More >

How To Load Test Your Site With k6

Servers are getting faster and faster, but there are still plenty of websites suffering from poor performance. There are many variables that might cause a website to load slowly, and there are websites that have good load times, but only up to a certain number of concurrent users. How can you find out how many Read More >

How To Stress Test Your WordPress Site With Loader.io

While visiting the WordPress reddit forum, I stumbled upon an interesting question about stress-testing websites: It’s difficult to know how your website will perform under peak conditions, especially given the many variables that can affect your site. And the worst time to test your site is the moment when a peak hits. By then, it’s Read More >

How To Convert Blocks In WordPress

WordPress blocks are a great way to add custom content to your website. In this article, we’ll show you how to convert certain types of block content from one form to another. This will allow you to add and mix different types of content in WordPress, regardless of the origin. Convert To Blocks Convert Classic Read More >

How to Create Overlap Blocks in WordPress

Creating an overlap block is not offered by default in the Gutenberg editor. However, with some CSS code from the makers of the Gutenberg Pro plugin, you can achieve an overlapping effect using a Media & Text block to create an effect like the one you see below: Create Overlap Blocks With CSS Add Additional Read More >

How To Use a Shortcode In The WordPress Block Editor

The WordPress block editor lets you create rich content without having to know how to code. However, rich content is also static, but you can add dynamic elements to it using shortcodes. You can add shortcodes to the editor to introduce new functionality and dynamic content. In this article, we will show you how to Read More >

Convert Jpeg Images to WebP With WordPress Performance Lab

The WebP image format is capable of creating images for your website that are much smaller (and thus load faster) than standard .jpeg or .png images. Even easier, with the WordPress performance lab plugin, you can have .jpeg images automatically converted into WebP format. Follow along below to learn how. Enabling WebP Uploads WebP image Read More >

Applying Additional CSS Class To WordPress Block

The Gutenberg block editor in WordPress puts a lot of stylistic controls at your fingertips. However, there may be certain effects you want to customize, but there are no controls or sliders to adjust them. In those situations, you will often need to add some additional CSS properties. WordPress makes it easy to add CSS Read More >

Using The WordPress Separator Block

It’s not surprising that many people will skim an article instead of reading it word for word. And yet there is important content that might get missed. If you are going to be writing long-form content, you will want to make the reading experience as pleasurable as possible for your reader, so they are less Read More >

Creating Image Galleries Using the WordPress Gallery Block

Creating a beautiful image gallery for a website used to be a difficult task that required extensive experience with CSS, or lots of slow-loading JavaScript. Now, you can easily create dynamic, mobile responsive image galleries in WordPress with a few clicks. How To Create a Gallery Block When finished selecting images, the gallery will appear Read More >

How to Set Images Side By Side In WordPress

Using images in your post and page content is often necessary to help emphasize your message. Visual aids draw the eye and can create a powerful contrast. And when it comes to contrast, presenting images side by side is a great way to make powerful statements. In this article, you’ll learn how to set images Read More >

How To Create a Hero Block In WordPress

This article is all about creating a hero block, or “hero section”, in the WordPress block editor. A hero section of a website is typically a large banner or full-width image with some text on it, meant to entice visitors to stay on a page and consume the information, click a button, or sign up Read More >

How To Change Block Width in WordPress

The Gutenberg editor in WordPress gives you control over the appearance of various content blocks you can use on your site. When Gutenberg is not enough, you can further customize your content with your own CSS rules. In this article, you will learn how to change block width in WordPress in a few different ways. Read More >

How To Integrate WordPress and GitHub

In this article, you will learn how to sync a local WordPress development project with GitHub, and how to automate deployment of the site files from GitHub to your production server. If you do not want to use GitHub to host your code, you can also set up a private Git server. Why Integrate Git Read More >

How to Customize Pleroma Account Settings

There are many different custom features you can integrate into your Pleroma account. In this article, you will learn about how to access your personal settings, including your display name, avatar, and background image settings. These are the basic settings you can use to customize your profile in a creative way. How To Access Pleroma Read More >

Understanding Git Objects

Once you have learned the basics of Git it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with the various Git objects, and how they relate to each other. Keys and Values What Are The Git Objects? Working With Git Objects Keys and Values Every object in Git is assigned a key, specifically a SHA-1 hash, and Read More >