Turn off WordPress emojis
Support of emojis are standard ever since version 4.2 of WordPress. Which is nice. But when you don’t need this, it only puts extra time to the page load and still does nothing. WordPress doesn’t have an option to turn…
How to configure the plugin Autoptimize?
How can you speed up your WordPress website? There are different methods. I have written about optimizing CSS and Javascript with Autoptimize before. This plugin quickly gives very good results! The primary goal of Autoptimize is to combine and optimize…
Optimize CSS and Javascript
To speed up a WordPress website is an interesting challenge. Not only because Google likes a fast website. A fast website is vital for the user experience. In this post I explained the first steps of making your website faster.…
Useful pieces of code
With plugins it’s very easy to expand the functionality of a WordPress website. On the frontend as well as the backend. Plugins can make your life as site owner a lot easier. Especially when your not very technical. Tens of…
Avoid or limit revisions
When you edit a page or post the old version will automatically be saved. Every time you edit a page or post, the old version is saved. These old versions pollute the database unnecessary, especially when you never delete them.…
How to restore a WordPress backup
It is very important to backup your website regularly. Many things can happen, that make it necessary to repair your website with the help of a backup. You can learn more about making backups in this post. Something is wrong,…
Remove query strings from CSS and Javascript
Theme and plugin developers often add a version number to the CSS and Javascript files. This way they force the browser to always load the most recent versions. It also causes these files not to be cached, because of the query…
How to backup your website with BackWPup
Creating a backup of your website regularly is not a luxury. A backup allows you to quickly be back online when disaster strikes. With a full backup at hand, you have a copy of your entire website to fall back…
Redirect to the one post found in search results
When you search on a WordPress website, you always get the results page in return. Even when the result is just one post or page. With the code below you can skip the results page when the search result is…