Wordpress

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January 6, 2022

WebP Support in WordPress and image conversion

This is part 17 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. While JPEG and PNG have been a de-facto standard for storing images for the web for a long time, webp is here to change that. With an estimated reduction of 30% of storage space requirement, the impact for improved load times, and bandwidth usage is significant. Wordpress comes with support for WebP since version 5.8.

January 3, 2022

Deactivate the REST API

This is part 13 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. In this article we take a brief look at the Wordpress REST API and how deactivating it may or may not boost your sites' performance.

January 3, 2022

Deactivate automatic updates

This is part 16 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. While automatic updates seems to be a good idea for blogs and smaller websites – in Ecommerce this feature might set you up for disaster. Disable automatic updates, in order for you to control plugin and core updates in a stable (development, staging, production) environment.

January 3, 2022

Utilise the WordPress Firewall to prevent plugins from phoning home

This is part 15 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. Activating and configuring Wordpress' firewall is one of the easiest ways to improve the performance of Wordpress & WooCommerce. The more plugins you are using, the more important it is to know about this feature.

January 3, 2022

Manage and reduce logging in your production environment

This is part 8 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. There are many reasons why one might want to log data on an e-commerce website. Data is crucial for reports, analysis, debugging and more. Here we take a look at what to log when and what not.

January 5, 2022

Summary of Must-Have WordPress Plugins for improved Performance

This is a quick overview, a summary of all plugins mentioned in my article series on Wordpress and WooCommerce performance. I consider them mandatory or least very helpful to improve overall site performance.

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