Helpful Posts
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Speed
How to Test Your Site Speed Accurately with WebPage Test
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
How to Test Image Optimization for Faster Page Load Speed
5 Ways to Create Image Widgets That Won’t Slow Down Your Site
How Pinterest Widgets Slow Page Load and Best Alternatives
How Cloudflare Makes Your Site Faster and Safer
Plugins
Best Free Social Share Button Plugins
Best Paid Social Share Button Plugins
Best Recipe Plugin for SEO and Speed
Best Comment Reply Notification Plugins
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded Plugin Settings
Scriptless Social Sharing Plugin Settings
Export Your WordPress Data to a CSV or XML File with WP All Export
How to Restore Plugins to a Previous Version with WP Rollback
Add Google reCaptcha to Contact Form 7
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
PHP 7.x
Why You Must Upgrade to PHP 7.1 or Higher before 2019 – contains links to all posts to help you switch
How to Check or Change your PHP Version – video tutorial and transcript with screenshots
Extra
WordPress
How to Use Easy Updates Manager to Turn off WordPress Core Updates
How to Embed Video Using iFrame for Faster Page Load
Redirects – How and When to Use Them
How to Delete Cache Everywhere
SEO
SEO 2018 for the Ground Up – Interview with Brian Weiss
How to Delete Old XML Sitemap from Google Search Console
Change Post Categories the Quick and Easy Way
Fix Recipes Markup Warnings from Google Search Console
Security
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
Add Google reCaptcha to Contact Form 7
Backups
Setup Amazon S3 Account for Backups
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
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