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Speed Testing
How to Run a Site Speed Test Accurately
Online Speed Testers: How to Read the Metrics
Google Core Web Vitals: What You Need to Know and Do
Speed Plugins and Tutorials
Caching vs Optimization for Site Speed – and the order to do them
Best Free Caching and Optimization Plugins
How to Embed Video Using iFrame for Faster Page Load
How to Delete Cache Everywhere
Speed and Images
How to Test Image Optimization for Faster Page Load Speed
Why Squoosh is My Image Optimization Tool of Choice
How Render Blocking Above the Fold Slows Page Load and Costs You Visitors
Why Image Reduction and Optimization is the Quickest Way to a Fast Site
5 Ways to Create Image Widgets That Won’t Slow Down Your Site
How Pinterest Widgets Slow Page Load and Best Alternatives
Cloudflare
How Cloudflare Makes Your Site Faster and Safer
How to Find and Whitelist Your IP Address in Cloudflare
How to Whitelist Facebook ASN IP in Cloudflare
Plugins
Best Plugin Reviews
Best Free Social Share Button Plugins
Best Paid Social Share Button Plugins
Best Recipe Plugin for SEO and Speed
Best Comment Reply Notification Plugins
Plugin Tutorials
How to Restore Plugins to a Previous Version with WP Rollback
Export Your WordPress Data to a CSV or XML File with WP All Export
Add Google Analytics Code to Header
Scriptless Social Sharing Plugin Settings
Social Pug Review and Settings
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded Plugin Settings
Formidable Forms: Getting Started Tutorial
WordPress Tutorials & Tips
Ultimate Guide for Creating Links in WordPress
Redirects – How and When to Use Them
Redirects – How to Easily Create with Redirection
Gutenberg
8 Pages You Can Make with Gutenberg in 15 Minutes
Gutenberg vs Elementor: Which is Faster?
Astra, Genesis, Divi: Which Theme is Fastest with Gutenberg?
What is Gutenberg and When Should You Adopt Using It?
Backups
Setup Amazon S3 Account for Backups
Partial Backup with UpdraftPlus: How To
SEO
Google Core Web Vitals: What You Need to Know and Do
SEO from the Ground Up – Interview with Brian Weiss
Change Post Categories the Quick and Easy Way
Fix Recipes Markup Warnings from Google Search Console
Security
Fix ModSecurity Issues When Adding JS Code to Head Area of Site
How to Find and Whitelist Your IP in Cloudflare
Rotate Your Site’s SALT Keys for Better Brute Force Protection
What is an .htaccess File and Why Do I Need One?
Why You Need a robots.txt File
What Celebrity Homes and Secure Sites Have in Common
HTTPS
The Top 7 Myths About HTTPS Site Conversion
HTTPS and WWW vs Non WWW: Which is Best to Use?
Top 10 Reasons NOT to Use Free HTTPS Conversion
Hosting
What is Managed Hosting? know before you buy any new hosting
How to Migrate Your Site to a New Host
Header Scripts
How to Verify Your Site on Pinterest with Genesis – NOTE: this works with all header verification scripts for any social media platform
PHP 7.x
How to Check or Change your PHP Version – video tutorial and transcript with screenshots
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